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In this article, I will feature my interview with Karla. She has no current experience as audio transcriptionist but she wants to have a career diversity. From the time of this writing, she is a Customer Support Professional employee in a BPO company for a year or more. She is currently located in San Juan City, Metro Manila in the Philippines.   Karla states, I honestly do not have an experience of being a transcriptionist but I really want to have a career diversity. For me, I have the edge to be a transcriptionist since I am doing a chat support from a Telco company and I have an excellent typing speed skill. I really want to try this job aside from the fact that it is a high paying job. I want to develop my skills on this field and I am looking forward to having a career growth on this kind of industry since we have a rapid growth in this line of job. At first, she wants to work in the office wherein she will have the chance to interact with other people. For Karla, it is one o...

Writing is indeed an enjoyable task, which relaxes and soothes the mind and nourishes the soul. However, it does take a lot of efforts, dedication, patience, and perseverance to excel in this field and provide genuinely, quality and appreciative writing, no matter what the domain is all about. While each writer does evolve, sustain and perpetuate his or her own style of writing, a few tips could indeed be offered that could be of some use to budding writers. These tips need not be taken as the Gospel Truth but could be applied as and when required and necessary. 1. Good reading is the key to good writing. Indeed, good readers make better writers just as good listeners make finer speakers. This author believes that a writer is essentially what he reads, since his thought processes and its crystallization into printed words which are gained through what he reads and imbibes. 2. Write with the reader in mind. It is important that readers should be able to understand and appreciate what is...

A productive audio transcriptionist is being measured by a number of audio files transcribed. This will reflect in your earnings if you are doing home-based transcription or in your performance appraisal if you’re working as an office based-transcriptionist. There are various ways on how to increase one’s productivity and here are a few of them. First of all, you have to listen very carefully to the audio or speaker’s voice that you need to transcribe. Because listening is the best part of a good production and especially in conversation. Without listening to the audio files, how can you understand it and transcribe it perfectly? It is a very basic thing, but it can be the right thing to do. Second, you have to understand every word and the tone of the speaker for you to transcribe it more efficiently especially the quotations, commas, periods, and etc. Because writing can be more understandable if it has a right tone and pause. Third, you have to work in a quiet and comfortable surrou...

It was almost six years ago when I started looking for online jobs so that I can earn a little extra money and buy some stuff I want and need. I was being influenced by my sister who was working for a blog site that time. She was writing tons of articles every day to maintain the content of the site. After a month, I saw her earnings and right there on, I was motivated to find a job too. Finding a client was tough, though. I am still a newbie and still wandering the corners of online jobs. After a quite some time, I had my luck and found my first client. My task was to write 10 articles a day, with 350 words each. I was very happy that I got a job but sad to say, after a month, my client said she was going to terminate the job because of unknown reasons. The good part was, I got paid. It did not stop there. I still looked for other clients and I got different employers. Some are paying while some are experts in hide-and-never-seek during payday. I scanned through various online jobs an...

Once again we welcome you to The Transcriptionists’ Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists. Today, we have Rachelle who started to become a medical transcriptionist in December 2012. She is from Las Pinas City, Philippines. Rachelle attained her training from American Academy of Medical Transcription in Ortigas Center, Pasig City. The school is accredited by TESDA or Technical Education and Skills Development Authority – a Philippine government training institution. She then started to become a medical transcriptionist trainee in a company where she pursues to contribute her skills and her being a fast learner to help in the growth of the company. She prefers to work as in a home based setting and of course, generally interested in medical transcription because of her training. She values to become a hard working and fast learner employee which she becomes a speedy typist. The best advice she can give to someone who wants to become a transcrip...

There are several reasons that compel a person to flinch a home-based business. First, there are multiple companies that are phasing off jobs with high salaries due to the recent economic crisis and instead of waiting for a job opportunity in a renowned company; many career aficionados prefer self-employment as their source of income. Selecting a home-based job that fits your criteria is an easy task to tackle because you know who you are and what you want to do in life. Plus, acquiring the skills that you encountered from your previous schooling and jobs is an advantage to avoid initial hassles in learning. The main benefit of working from home is the part-time or flexible schedule that you can easily manage. Listed below are 5 (five) jobs a writer can do home-based online aside from article writing alone. 1. If you have the background in education or tutoring then online tutor is a home-based job you should consider. It doesn’t usually require a degree in education, as long as you ha...

To become a medical transcriptionist editor, you should have years of experience, exposed to different accounts and physician’s voice. Most importantly an in-depth, extensive knowledge of medical terminologies and specialties is a must. The practices and skills in Word processing, spelling, and proofreading to be able to produce reports that are accurate and complete is also required. You must have excellent English writing skills including grammar, specifications, structure, style, and spelling. You should also possess good hearing acuity and listening ability. In many situations, being a medical transcriptionist editor, you should have strong analytical skills and ability to navigate the Internet for researching. All of these requirements must be present to become a highly efficient medical transcriptionist editor. If you believe you possess all these skills, you can get the considerable higher amount of salary and incentives as compared to a regular medical transcriptionist. If you ...