Skill up During Your Time Off: Learn Transcription Online
COVID-19 itself is not the only uncertainty that the UK is facing right now, no one can currently predict what will happen with employment, or how the world will change post-virus. One thing is for certain, key skills that are vital right now are: resilience; an ability to see and grasp opportunities; and the foresight to use this time to retrain, think to the future and add another string to your employment bow. Now is the perfect time to learn a new skill, such as transcription.
Best case estimates are that it will take at least a year to 18 months for a vaccine to become available. Cities will ease some restrictions; they will have to. However, it will be a long time before UK residents can return to their lives as they were in early 2020. Graduating students are finding their job applications have been paused or withdrawn. Job security is at an all-time low.
Working Online in the UK, an Excellent Option in 2020
The silver lining is that companies who can are doing increasing amounts of work online. They are using technology to do meetings and interviews via Zoom, Skype, GoToMeeting, Webex, effectively replacing face-to-face meetings. More and more of those meetings are being transcribed, to be circulated amongst staff to create reports and planning.
Earn Money Online by Learning How to Transcribe
Whatever your profession, wouldn’t it be nice to have something solid to fall back on when the unexpected happens? Transcription can be that safety net. For some of us, it’s a full-time career, for others right now, it can be the difference between no income and some income.
Find out more about the kinds of people who work as transcribers for a living in our eBook and get Lesson 1 of our Beginners Course at no cost to you. What do you have to lose? What else are you doing right now? There has never been a better time to upskill and retrain for your future. You owe it to yourself.
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And The More You Do, The More Opportunities Will Come