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Have you ever considered ChaCha as a job hunting tool? This may not be the most obvious ChaCha use case that comes to mind, but is a very valuable one as The International Business Journal points out in their article titled 6 New Tools to Propel Your Job Search Forward. The article points out the value of ChaCha's quick response time and the personal attentiveness users receive from our live human guides. Our guides provide direct answers to time-sensitive questions rather than pointing users towards a list of Websites that require further evaluation. Job seekers will find relief in an ally that helps make the often daunting process of selecting a new career a little less painful. Continue Reading →

If you've ever thought about joining ChaCha's 63,000+ member-strong guide team to earn a little extra cash from home as an independent contractor, or wondered about how the magic happens behind the scenes that allows ChaCha to serve millions of answers per day, Nicole Scilingo gives a nice, real-world personal account of her experience as a college student guiding for ChaCha in Drake University's student newspaper, The Times-Delphic.

After discussing how ChaCha's flexibility of allowing guides to work whenever they want fits well with her hectic study schedule, Nicole points out several lesser-known facts about the guide experience. One of these facts is that ChaCha is very selective when considering guide candidates. Guides go through a rigorous application, training and testing process that a member of ChaCha's internal guide management team hand-evaluates before giving approval. Another point made by Nicole is that the evaluation period doesn't end when a guide is accepted. Our guide team is constantly graded on customer satisfaction, quality, accuracy and speed. Continue Reading →