How to do data entry work.
So there are lots of data entry jobs on Upwork and different online job portals.
It's one of the most common jobs you can find and the easiest to get job.
What is that data entry work?
So there are two kinds of data entry work or two kinds of work that clients consider to be that.
Entry the first one the most common one is when you're encoding data from a scanned document usually they send you a PDF of like a textbook or something like that, and you put it into a Word or Excel document
So just whatever you see, and then you just type it in Word or Excel and some other data entry work can be copy and copy-pasting data from one form to another, so you could be looking at.
Let's say a directory of businesses, and you'd be copying and pasting their data into Excel.
The Excel spreadsheet takes note that copy-pasting data from one form into another usually involves data research skills.
Sometimes a client will tell you to do research on the different let's say email addresses of contact people in this company, so you're gonna have to do some research to find those email addresses in addition to data entry.
Just be aware that when you're applying for a job, be sure to read the Job Description properly before submitting an application.
What equipment do you need?
So you need a computer definitely, you can't do this on your mobile phone you need Microsoft Word or Excel, or even if you don't have Microsoft Word or Excel you can always use the free tools Google Docs.
Google sheets optionally it would be really good if you had a second monitor because if you have two screens you can have to scan PDF.
On one of them and you can have your own screen on the other, and then you can just look between those two screens.
It's very easy, what some people do is they on one screen they have half of the screen be the like Microsoft Word and half of the screen is the PDF.
The scanned document, so either way a second on the screen would really help you do your work faster since you can also see more.
What skills do you need well you need fast typing skills, and then you need to have basic skills in Microsoft Word Excel or Google Docs and Google sheets.
So you don't need to know formulas and complicated stuff in Microsoft Excel, you just need to know how to navigate and just basic skills in Excel.
How you improve your typing skills is very important for data entry because the faster you can type, the more work you can get done.
The higher you can get paid, so you can go to a website like typing test comm and just practice there, and as you practice you should increase your words per minute or wpm.
A good word per minute to start off is 60 words per minute, if you can type in 60 words per minute then you're above average, and you should be good to do that entry work.
If you can reach a hundred words per minute, that is even better, and I usually type around 100 words per minute. So if you can reach that speed then you can do a lot of work and get paid a lot higher
So where do you find jobs you can go in upward comm freelancer com go Lance comm you can even create a profile on fiverr.com and almost all the different online job portals will have that entry work.
It's really easy to do, and you can get started on it immediately, your only training probably would be your typing test to increase your typing speed.
Some reasons why not to do that entry work is it's boring, there's no excitement.
You're just typing typing typing and that's it, so it can get very boring the pay is a bit low compared to other jobs.
If you do like if you become a virtual assistant, you can charge five eight-ten to fifteen dollars an hour data entry usually, you stay around three or two maybe six dollars an hour, so there's a big.
The difference in pay also there's no room for growth even if you become a very good data entry person.
You are still data the entry you can't become like a supervisor or a manager unless you venture
Once again into other areas like virtual assistants and if you are planning to become a virtual assistant or do writing work and things like that you don't want to have the low-paying jobs
In your up work profile like that entry that's a low-paying job, you don't want to appear in your up work profile because clients are gonna think that your rate is really low.
They want they won't be willing as much to pay you higher all right so that's it about a dead-end few works, you can go ahead and apply for data entry jobs.
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