Archive for August, 2008
How To Become A Medical Transcriptionist
Medical transcriptionist jobs are a popular work at home job for many reasons. Not only can this be a good paying and interesting job but it can be very flexible because you can work at your own pace. Working at home can offer great flexibility, especially if you have small children at home.
How to become a medical transcriptionist
Medical transcriptionists need to know more than just how to type quickly. They need to understand medical terminology (which can take time and training) and some basic information about procedures as well as record keeping and government guidelines. There are a lot of accredited transcription courses available either on campus or online.
When looking for a reputable campus based or online transcription school, you first want to be sure it is accredited and recognized. You also may consider looking at transcription companies to see what their preferences are. Some companies work specifically with schools for student placement. You’ll want statistics from the school you’re looking at about the placement rate as well.
Various companies have differing requirements as to how much experience they want so talk to the schools you’re looking at to determine whether or not they have a high success rate. Course fees can vary from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars so be sure you do your homework to ensure you’ve chosen the right school that can prepare and groom you for a successful career as a medical transcriptionist.
How much money does a medical transcriptionist make?
Transcriptionists in the medical industry can work at home or in medical offices and hospitals and pay can range from pennies per word transcribed to dollars per page based on a flat fee basis, depending on the client. You can potentially earn an average of $15/hourly as a beginner doing medical transcription and rates will vary depending on whether you’re working for a transcription agency or directly for a doctor.
Call Center WAH Job Options
When you call a company and end up speaking with a call center, you might be talking to someone who is working from home. Call center jobs are increasingly popular in the wah space. Whether it’s cold calling or taking orders, many companies will hire telecommuters.
- Pizza order takers
- Hotel reservation bookings
- Rent a car bookings
- Customer Service Reps
- Virtual assistants
The above are just some of the jobs available. How do you find out which companies are hiring home-based call center reps? Many online resources exist to help you find work at home jobs. For instance, some companies are hiring regularly in Canada for wah call centre jobs such as: Contract XChange, Telepros and Advantis and Toucan.
Many call center jobs will let you work split shifts so you can be available to get your kids to school or off the school bus. Some will allow late night positions as well so you can work from home part-time during the evening. Some programs do require training and training may or may not be paid and may require you to pay for training so be very careful of scams. Tehre are many legitimate companies out there but if you’re not sure whether something is legit, do check online for WAH reviews about the company.
Why, How and Where To Find Forum Posting Jobs
Forum posting jobs are a great way to make some spare cash. If you get popular or find a great company, you could even become a paid moderator or forum administrator and earn a decent income. When I got started in 2006 in freelance writing, my first decent paying gig was to manage online community forums.
Here are several places you could find these types of jobs:
- Digital Point Forums
- Site Point Forums
- Craigslist
- Odesk
- Freelance bidding sites like Guru or eLance
Job duties might include: keeping conversations going, starting new threads, moderating forum discussions, moving spam out of the forum, resetting passwords, managing contests.
Pricing for posting generally starts at pennies a post and many companies pay via PayPal. Forum management jobs will often pay hourly, weekly or monthly salaries.
If you’re looking to get into this area, you might start posting in communities and being helpful and articulate. Choose communities that you’re interested in and once you become an established poster, PM (private message) the administrator and suggest you’d like to be considered for a management posting if one comes up.
