Work From Home Typing

The Sweeper

Right, I know you've seen that subject header in every spam email or unwanted pop-up ever, but this is serious.

I am badly in need of FAST typists to work from home for decent rates.

Background:

At the moment I'm the project manager for a rapid turnaround transcription service. We provide content to a financial portal for US Business and Financial Analysts. I currently manage about 80 work-from-home writers in five countries.

Every quarter US-based companies host "earnings" conference calls, where they review financial performance and give a business update. These conference calls are often simulcast by live webcast. The calls take the format of a presentation, anywhere between 10 minutes and 45 minutes long, and then they open it to the floor for a Question and Answer session where analysts fire off questions and the executives respond. The Q&A can be anywhere from 10 minutes to an 70 minutes in length.

I need typists to do fast, verbatim transcripts of the Q&A bit.

Payment:

Pay is in sterling, you invoice monthly on a supplied invoice template, for work done in the preceding month. Payment is by cheque or bank transfer. It's up to you to manage your own tax.

The job itself:

Initially, if you're interested, I'll set you up with typing and recording software and give you two or three test pieces to do. These will give us both an idea if the work is suitable for you. You wont get paid for the time you spend testing.

If it suits you, I'll set you up to take live calls. I provide the software you record with, and the software you type into. You don't have to buy anything. What you do need is the following:

• At least 70 words per minute typing speed.
• A PC.
• Internet access (preferably not dial-up, but we can test you on dial-up and see if it works for you).
• Some understanding of the business world, so that you understand terms and phrases like EBITDA, Earnings Per Share, Gross Profit, basis points etc. - however, you can pick this up quite quickly so I'm not too worried about it.

Each week you provide me with the hours you're available in the following week, and I assign calls to you by Ticker Symbol and time. You access these calls through the portal that we provide content to.

The work is done live; you listen and record the call live (from webcast normally) and work at typing as much as you can while it's going on, then when the audio ends you save the recording and play it back and fill in the blanks. Then you save the file and email it to the support desk.

YOU CHOOSE YOUR HOURS, but to give you an idea, we work on Eastern Time in the US, which is GMT minus 5 hours, so we tend to start at 1pm and finish at anything up to 3am. If you're available anywhere inside these hours you could be useful to me.

This is rapid turnaround transcription, so there's no popping to the shops for a half hour between the end of the audio and the submission of the file.

At the moment my top transcribers turn in a half hour's audio in four times the duration of the audio - so if a Q&A starts at 2pm, and finishes at 2.30pm, they have the saved and spellchecked file to me by 4pm.

This is the most important bit; DON'T WASTE MY TIME ON THIS. If you're serious about training and trying out, and committing some time to the work, it could prove to be very lucrative for you. We are more busy on a seasonal basis, so at the moment we're swamped, and we'll be swamped again in April, but there is definitely work available in between those months for people who work out at this.

If you want to know more, PM me.

Best,

Gemma.

The Sweeper

By the way, if you're not sure how fast you can type, try an online typing test like:

www.typingtest.com

mbetson

Hi Gemma

i just read your mail in relation to typing from home. i would be interested in same. I am currently working as an office manager but am due to go on maternity leave in september. I only work until 1,30pm every day so i am free in the afternoons. I dont plan on returning to work as this is my third child (my other two children are school going.

I have a laptop at home and wireless internet connection, is this all i require?

Maybe you can forward me on any further relevant information.

Regards

Michelle Betson

Gone West

I'm not sure if you noticed, but that post is 4 and a half years old.
Unsure if the user is still working for that company, but you could try sending her a pm.

mike99

Hi

I am also interested in this position, if you can give me details on how to apply I would be grateful.

Dudess

LOL

January '04 guys, January '04. Gemma has moved to Australia since then...

The Sweeper

I have an inbox full of PMs.

Four and a half years later, oddly enough, I'm not employing anybody for the precise position that I was back in the day...

Tails142

lol, cant believe nobody replied to this thread back in 2004.

Times were obviously good back then

Dudess

The recession has got so bad, people are now attempting time travel in order to look for work...

brianthebard

*sigh*this would've been great,then or now.Oh well...*stays on dole*

Latchy

I laughed when i seen the thread was posted 4 years ago

Silverfish

Dudess wrote: »

The recession has got so bad, people are now attempting time travel in order to look for work...

DEYTUKARJAAAAAAAAAWWBS

thefinalstage

Dudess wrote: »

The recession has got so bad, people are now attempting time travel in order to look for work...

Current college student will be fine. Do the Erasmus and just stay where ever you go.

Latchy

Outta the way , tumbleweeeds a heading this way !

Dudess

Silverfish wrote: »

DEYTUKARJAAAAAAAAAWWBS

Yeah, if someone did successfully go back/forward in time in order to get a job, would these time travellers be treated with as much disdain as immigrants? A question for the M&TM forum I suppose...

Diner

Hi Gemma

I was just wondering in relation to the typing at home service do all transcripts have to be completed on the same day. I work full-time but also do work in the evenings so if I got recordings after 5 pm I could have them back to you the following morning.

I would be grateful if you could come back to me on this. I have a typing speed of 70 wpm. I am based in Dublin, Ireland. I can accept files in mp3 or wav format.

Many thanks

Mary

Larianne

Can someone lock this 4 year thread please. Thank you.

GoneShootin

Larianne wrote: »

Can someone lock this 4 year thread please. Thank you.

Of course someone can!