Freelance Transcription – More than Typing Speed!

Becoming a successful freelance transcriptionist requires more than fast typing – much more. When you surf the Internet looking for ways to make money, you are bound to come across hundreds of websites and advertisements advising you to take up transcription. Typically, the requirements listed for embarking on a home-based transcriptionist career are keyboard skills, fast typing, a computer and a broadband Internet connection. The truth is you may have all these things and still fail to keep a transcription client satisfied.

Transcription is certainly a great way to work from home, and with the non-stop growth in business solution outsourcing, there is an increasing amount of transcription being outsourced directly to (skilled) freelance translators and via web-based transcription service providers. Transcriptionutah employs a large number of excellent home-based transcriptionists. If you really want to be a professional home-based transcriptionist, you need:

• Superior English language and grammar skills; this is by far the most important qualification every transcriptionist must have, whatever his/her field of transcription specialization. You may have years of medical experience (as a nurse, for example) and be knowledgeable about medical procedures and medical terminology, but if your grammar and spelling are average, you will not make it as a medical transcriptionist – or any kind of transcriptionist.
• Customer service skills are also extremely valuable for any kind of home-based job where you will have to aggressively seek out opportunities to prove your transcription skills.
• You will need to purchase transcription equipment and transcription software, and this does not necessarily have to cost a fortune. You can buy a used foot pedal, and there are excellent free shareware transcription programs. Do invest in a quality pair of headphones, however.
• A rare number of Utah transcription service providers, such as Transcriptionutah, also provide foreign (non-English) language transcription services. If you are a native speaker of a language other than English and have excellent writing (grammar and spelling) skills in that language, you could offer foreign language transcription services from your home.

Transcriptionutah is a leading online outsource transcription company providing a complete range of transcription services to clients in Utah and across the U.S. , Canada , Australia and the U.K. We employ a large number of well-trained and rigorously tested work-at-home transcriptionists. Contact us today.