Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. A lot of my subscribers have
found my channel because they are interested in becoming a transcriptionist. So in today's video,
I'm just going to give you a quick update about the transcription jobs that are available
in May 2021. Because of the pandemic that we're currently in right now, there is so much
competition. And so many people are trying to get work as a transcriptionist. And sometimes you go
through all the effort of passing the exam or the test. And then once you're ready to start working,
there is no work available. So I want to show you all the different transcription platforms that I
have passed, and what the jobs are like right now, if I were to go and start working. Okay,
so here's a list of the different transcription companies that I applied. And if I was accepted
or not, unlike other YouTube channels that talk about transcription jobs, I actually try to get
accepted into them. So I can let you know what it looks like once you're inside the platform.
So Rev. I was accepted into rev captioning and into rev transcription, transcribeme as well,
Scribie,, QA world, Castingwords, CrowdSurfWork. And then I applied to verbit and was not accepted.
And then I applied to GoTranscript and was not accepted as well. For verbit, it was an immediate,
like, not accepted. So I don't even know if they really reviewed my application or not
because I thought I did a perfect job. And it was instant, maybe, which I think is very strange.
And then with GoTranscript, I heard back about a month after I applied and they just said I wasn't
accepted. Again, I don't know, there might have been something in the style guide I missed with
GoTranscript. So maybe I'll try again to see what it looks like. So I can show you guys but
just wanted to let you know, these are the ones that I have been accepted into. And these are the
ones I have not been accepted into. Okay, so right now you can see the time, it's may 4, the 11:22am.
And I have logged into my castingwords account. And you can see here, we have the dashboard. And
if we go to available jobs, you can see here that under available jobs, there's nothing available.
But you can see it says from 328 total entries. So a lot of people will get accepted into
castingwords. And then they say I can't do any work. They there's no work for me to do. If you
click on all jobs, you can see here there's 328 jobs available. But the problem is, for example,
if I click on this here to transcribe it. At the top, it says your transcriber rank
isn't high enough for this job. So one of the problems is that well, the only way to get your
transcriber rate higher is to transcribe and if there's no work available, how are
you supposed to do that? So this is something that has been a problem for a lot of people.
The other day, when I was opening up all these to do a bit of research for this video,
I took this screenshot because I was really surprised to see that there were
jobs that were available. So this was on April 30, as you can see from the screenshot,
and there were all these different transcription jobs available for new transcribers to do so you
can see here they had 759 total jobs available. And maybe because there were so many, they opened
them up to new transcriptionist. But there were 14 available. And you can see here the length of
this one, which is eight minutes and the average pay was 136. Again, the pay for transcribing is
not high at all. It's extremely low. You can check out my full video on transcriptions for beginners.
Do I think it's worth it to be a transcriptionist? If you live in a country where the cost of living
is high? No, absolutely not. But that's not what I'm covering. In this video.
I'm simply covering the different transcription platforms that are available right now. What
this tells me is that there are jobs that are available for new transcriptionist, but you
have to be constantly looking under available jobs. If you are accepted into casting words,
keep looking check all the time, because once you can get your transcriber rank higher, then
you'll have access to all the other jobs as well. Okay, the next one I want to show you is QA world.
I'm logged into my QA world account. QA world is the easiest transcription platform to get
accepted into. And this is normally something people will see there are no calls available at
this time. Please check back later. And this is very frustrating for people who
get accepted and want to start working. You can see here that there are top transcribers
and you know, they're transcribing a lot. Look at how many minutes they have. transcribe this week,
but they are getting access to calls before other people are I believe. So again,
it's like with casting words, the more you do work for the platform, the more access to work
you have. Again, you can see right now it's 11:27am, that I'm looking at this website.
Okay, so here on April 30, at 7:50pm, and this was, I'm living in Spain. So Central
European Time, I had different calls that were popping up. So you can see here, two calls were
popping up. And then here was May 1, and you can see 18 different calls were popping up.
And when these calls pop up, you have to click start work as soon as you can, because they will
go really fast. But QA world, even though there's not a lot of work available, calls will pop up
during the day. The next platform I want to show you is crowd surf work. Now this is one that I
was accepted into a long time ago. And there were always different tasks available. So with crowd
surf work, I'm seeing a lot of Spanish ones that I could transcribe up to 35 seconds of Spanish.
And not a whole lot of work right now that I'm seeing. The one thing with crowd surf work is
a lot of people have been passing the test and getting an account and then they're never getting
their credentials and crowd surf is not sending them their login info. So I think that right now
even if you get accepted, you won't get your login info. So right now, I don't recommend applying to
crowd surf work, because everyone has been saying that they're not getting their login, I think they
have too many applicants, too many people have been approved. So right now I wouldn't waste
your time with crowd surf work, because there's not a lot of work from what I'm seeing. And also,
you might never get your credentials because they are so overly saturated with applications.
And the one I am definitely recommending you to apply to today is scripting. You can see here
123 files for transcription. There's always files available on Scribie. On the weekend,
not so much on the weekend. There weren't any when I looked on Sunday when I was going to
do this video. So I wanted to wait until mid week to show you what it really looks like.
We can sort the files by the rate. So all of these are $10 per audio hour.
I know some people will say $20 per hour, you're not making $20
per hour, this is per audio hour. So if you have one full hour of audio that you transcribe,
you will make $10 so it could take you three to four hours to transcribe one audio hour. So that's
working out too not a lot of money at all. Again, this video is not saying you're going to make a
lot of money transcript transcribing, because you won't, not with these platforms anyways. Okay, so
the highest amount this one for example, if you transcribe this 26 minute file, you'll get $4.36.
Again, it's not good money, but there is work available with scrubby. If you want to try to
apply to Scribie, you can click the link in the description below. That's my referral link. But
this is the website that I am continuously seeing a lot of work for. Okay, now we have transcribeme
now I no longer have access to the jobs even though I pass the test. Because if you don't
submit one job in a 30 day period, your account will become inactive. What I should have done
is I should have messaged them within that period to say, you know, I couldn't there weren't any
jobs available or give a reason for why I couldn't work. But I didn't do that. So now I have to do an
exam reactivation test if I want to get access back into my account, and I might consider doing a
video on that soon. So I don't know what the work situation looks like in transcribeme right now.
So finally, I want to show you Rev. Now rev always has jobs available. From my experience, you can
see here, you know, 247 different jobs that you can claim. This can obviously can change on the
weekend that I saw 60 jobs available, and so it's just always changing. Again, rev is similar to
castingwords and QA world in that the higher your rank is, the more jobs you will have available to
you. But there are always jobs available for new transcriptionist or new captioners as well. So the
platform is I will definitely recommend you apply to right now in May would be Scribie as my number
one because I think it's easier to get into than Rev. But you can also try Rev if you are a more
experienced transcriptionist, or if you have, you know, perfect, excellent English and you're
confident that you will get accepted. And then you can also try QA world if you're just starting out.
And then if you just want to have the option of other platforms as well, you can go with
transcribe me and also castingwords, but again, I don't know Right now what the job availability is
like in transcribe me because my account, I have to reactivate my account because I was inactive
for so long. So basically I just wanted to quickly update you about the transcription
job availability once you get accepted into these platforms, so you know what it's like right now,
as of May, I will try to do one of these videos every month or once every two months to so you can
sort of be aware of what the transcription job availability is like at all time.
If you are working for any of the other platforms that I have not covered in this tutorial,
or for example, you have been accepted into Verbit or GoTranscript and you want
to leave in the comment section below what the transcription job availability is like. So people
can you know have a bit of insight into those platforms that would be very much appreciated.
So thank you guys once again for watching. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to
my channel for more videos just like this one, and I will see you in my next video.