The COVID-19 pandemic may have temporarily halted our financial endeavors, but it should not have meant the end of our goals. The good news is that there are ways to make money from the comfort of your own home.
Nowadays, staying at home no longer means you can’t make money on your own, thanks to advances in technology and the internet. To begin, there are a number of online jobs that don’t require any previous experience. If you want to work with simple tasks with minimal training, you can try a few of the following online typing jobs available:
Online Typing Jobs You Might Consider
1. Data Entry
Data entry is a type of online typing job that requires you to enter information into a database. Some jobs may also involve the transcription of data from audio and video files. Other tasks are as simple as “copy-pasting.” Training is not required for data entry. You may already be familiar with the tasks that will be required. It’s relatively simple, so you can take on extra work if you want. To complete the task, you will only need a computer and an internet connection.
Skills that you need:
You should ideally be able to type at a rate of 40 to 50 words per minute. Although such quick typing speed is not required for all jobs, it can be useful. The faster you work, the more work you can complete. Of course, you must also type correctly.
2. Data Transcription
Transcription is the process of turning audio recordings such as dictation, lectures, conference calls, phone messages, into written or printed form. It included hours of listening to audio records and requires patience. Aside from being a good typist, you must also have a keen ear.
Skills that you need:
General transcription really comprises many distinct forms of specialized transcribing and need typists with differing degrees of experience and equipment. Legal transcribing needs prior knowledge as well as familiarity with legal jargon and processes. Financial/corporate transcribing requires that the typist be familiar with the terminology of the business.
3. Medical Transcription
A medical transcriptionist transcribes dictation from a physician or medical practitioner, which is subsequently put to the patient’s medical record.
Skills that you need:
Medical transcription does need specialized post-secondary training and certification—either a one-year certificate program or a two-year associate’s degree.
4. Captioning
Captioning differs from typical home-based transcribing work in that instead of working from recorded audio, the real-time captioner types live video. It is both the most paid and the most difficult transcribing profession. Most real-time transcriptionists work as court reporters.
However, offline captioning is a type of caption job that involves typing subtitles for recorded video. Offline captioning involves transcribing and adding captions to the audio of a recorded video during the post-production process.
Skills you need:
For live captioning, it demands lightning-fast typing speeds, precision, and sophisticated stenography equipment. Only the most skilled typists can make the switch to real-time transcription. Meanwhile, off-line requires less speed and skill than real-time, but you must have some transcribing experience to become a captioner.
Where to find typing jobs online?
There are plenty of sites you can look for typing jobs. You can start with Upwork, Fiverr, Onlinejobs.ph, and Freelancer.
A quick reminder to avoid frauds if you’re interested in learning how to land any type of online job. Be aware of data entry frauds, which are sometimes disguised as work-at-home opportunities.
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