| If your life situation confines you to your home, or if | | | | work-from-home jobs will require you to type up |
| you like the idea of a job that you work from home | | | | handwritten documents scanned in as .pdf files. In |
| and set your own schedule, why not put your skills to | | | | some cases, an employer may even ship you a box |
| use in a data entry job? Among all the top | | | | of handwritten documents to enter into a word |
| telecommuting jobs available, data entry is one of the | | | | processing document or the company's own internal |
| most in-demand work-from-home job fields, and it | | | | system. |
| usually doesn't require a diploma or substantial prior | | | | The other thing that carries over from the pre-internet |
| experience. | | | | age is the importance of speed and efficiency. When |
| Data Entry Jobs Before the Internet | | | | you're starting out in the field, it's acceptable to be a |
| It's only recently that information processing jobs have | | | | little slow, but in such a competitive field, you'll want to |
| migrated largely to the internet, allowing professionals | | | | try to pick up the pace as soon as possible. If you're |
| to perform the work from home. Prior to the rise of | | | | already good at repetitive tasks and staying focused |
| the internet, most data entry jobs involved processing | | | | during work that can be boring, then you should be |
| handwritten documents, entering them into a computer, | | | | able to excel. |
| or simply typing them up on a typewriter to be entered | | | | The bad news about this work in the internet age is |
| into a filing system. | | | | that technology is making certain jobs obsolete. For |
| In other cases, a data entry clerk might be responsible | | | | example, it's now possible for computers to recognize |
| for gathering large amounts of information from | | | | handwriting and to translate handwritten documents |
| something like a box of documents or, for example, a | | | | into computerized text. |
| customer questionnaire. This usually required some | | | | However, the good news for anyone who wants to |
| training to familiarize the clerk with the company's | | | | work from home is that, while certain specific jobs are |
| unique notation system, but these jobs were generally | | | | being taken over by technology, the breadth of |
| quite easy. Long-time employees would eventually be | | | | opportunities is expanding dramatically. For example, |
| able to process huge amounts of data in a short | | | | companies will hire data entry professionals to search |
| amount of time. | | | | the web and create a database of email addresses or |
| Online Data Entry Jobs | | | | phone numbers for marketing purposes. Or, a |
| Now that the internet has come along and | | | | company will hire a data entry professional to process |
| revolutionized how business is done and how data is | | | | complex computerized data and turn it into readable |
| processed, data entry not only has become more | | | | form. In fact, there are almost as many types of data |
| electronic, but it has also become one of the most | | | | entry jobs as there are companies. And, with |
| rapidly expanding professions in the world. | | | | innovation being the name of the game in today's |
| Some things have carried over from the old forms of | | | | business environment, there will always be new types |
| information processing. For example, some of these | | | | of work in this field. |