Different Types of Home Jobs

I would now like to share the results of fairly detailed research on all sorts of home business with you, incorporating my own experiences, giving you as detailed, simple and extensive an explanation on each separate category of opportunities as possible – right here, you don’t need to wait for a follow-up Mail! Just turn the pages!

I. The most simple opportunities: ‘Data Entry’, ‘Data Conversion’, ‘Form Filling’, ‘Report Creation’

‘Data Entry’ and ‘Data Conversion’ cover the broad gamut of accessing data from what we call ‘.doc’ and ‘jpeg’ or ‘image’ files and converting them to data arranged in another format. The data will be available to you over the Internet in the following manner:

v Typed on E-Mails
v Attached to E-Mails
v Seen by clicking specified areas of specified Websites

These jobs can be classified into 2 main categories: ‘Typing’ and ‘Form Filling’. The source data are sent by the job provider in 2 different forms – as ‘.doc’ files or as ‘jpeg’ files. Data on ‘.doc’ files can be copied and pasted. Such files are sent when the matter or content is to be and merely segregated or selected and arranged in specified columns and rows in a specified MS Word or MS Excel format. We call them simple ‘form filing’ jobs. ‘Global Info Service’, with website www.365jobs4u.com, is the best advertised provider (though now apparently not free from the ‘scam’ label) of such job conversion from ‘doc.’ or ‘MS Word’ files to Excel files maintained as per specified format or arrangement of fields (columns) – specified data have to be transferred from the MS Word files sent vide E-Mail to the specified fields of the Excel Sheet, devoting different rows for different Word files. Data may be on details of ads posted by different persons in different classified websites (as in case of ‘Global Info Service’), payroll data, etc.

Typing jobs are sent to the registered user typically as ‘jpeg’ files. These days, Health Care Centres, Health Researchers and doctors in USA and other advanced countries are in great need of updated medical information, which they also need to modify suitably for their own use. Such information are simply ‘scanned’ from medical journals and stored in computers as images, in the form of ‘jpeg’ files; ‘scanning’ is essentially a photographing or photocopying process, and hence the content has to be typed in MS Word to enable the user to modify it. Such scanned ‘images’ in ‘jpeg’ files are sent to the workers for typing and sending back to the BPO work provider, and payment terms and amount depend on the accuracy level measured in terms of spelling, punctuation, formatting and other mistakes while typing. Usually, no payment is available for less than 96% accuracy – the payment by Indian companies vary from Rs. 5–20 per page, depending on work volume and accuracy; 300-900 pages per working month of 26-28 days is the normal pattern.

However, our extensive search reveals that none of these ‘typing’ or ‘data conversion’ jobs are allocated to individuals free of cost by Indian BPOs. One may apply to foreign companies – mostly US-based - free of one-time or registration cost, but they require certain office equipments to be maintained by the worker besides a PC and Internet connection, like Fax and telephone connection with ISD facility. Besides, the volume and time limits for the work they allot are almost beyond the scope of single individuals. A lot of work or other communications related to the work may be routed through Fax or telephone. Although the phone communications are promised o be made over toll-free numbers, Fax and phone are rather inconvenient media these days, compared to the Internet. Besides, most of these direct ‘free registration’ with foreign work providers are restricted to US, Canadian or UK residents, and some for European countries – despite the much-trumpeted rapid growth of the Indian market potential.