Working for Legitimate Transcription Companies

Transcription is a very in-demand industry these days

. Although you may have heard of medical and legal transcription, there's also a strong demand for general transcription services. General transcription, unlike medical and legal transcription, does not require any specialized training, certification, or knowledge of medical or legal jargon. Demand for general transcription comes from the mass media, which want their programs and their interviews of their resource persons to be transcribed for documentation. Same with companies who hold face-to-face meetings, conference calls, focus group discussions, and presentations, that would all have to be transcribed. Schools for the deaf also require transcription, making the demand for general transcription services strong for the years to come.

If you are ready to meet the demand and take on transcription as a work at home opportunity, you will find the job rewarding not only financially, but emotionally as well since you would be able to work at your own time, at the comfort of your own home, and spend more time with your family.

To start you off on your new career, you need to find legitimate transcription companies. A quick search on the Internet should be able to provide you with early leads. You have to select a company that has a solid track record in meeting its obligations to its clients, but to its work from home employees as well. Look for a company that would reward you most for your efforts. These companies usually pay you extra if there are factors that would make you put in more effort for the same length of audio or video file to transcribe. Files that are of poor quality due to background noise, those who have speakers with accents that are difficult to understand, and files that have multiple or overlapping speakers, just to name a few, usually pay higher than the usual transcription rates.

When looking for legitimate transcription companies, avoid those who don't have a clear payment system to their transcribers. Also avoid companies that will require you to transcribe too much amount of video or audio for free before they start paying you. Think twice if the sample work needed to test your transcription capabilities exceed one hour; instead, look for companies that will pay you even for your sample transcription work that you will submit. There are also transcription companies who will help you while you are still starting up by providing you with the tools to make you more productive in your work such as transcription software and transcription foot pedal, at friendly terms.

You may also call the transcription company first, and crosscheck the information you gather from them with government agencies before committing work or before sending in money, regardless of the mode of payment, or reason for sending to the transcription company. Keeping these suggestions in mind will help you in jump-starting you transcription job without falling into the common pitfalls.

Working for Legitimate Transcription Companies

By: Leva Duell

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