There’s a new trend that might be your ticket to a work at home job. It’s called Clickworking or Crowdsourcing. Increasingly, companies are moving tasks to the Internet, where they are completed by independent contractors with the click of a mouse. Evidently, NASA had an experimental project going that used public volunteers (nicknamed “clickworkers” on the site) for scientific tasks that require human perception and common sense, but not a lot of scientific training.
According to clickworker.com, a new subsidiary of humangrid, you can register at their site as a clickworker and complete tasks for a fee. Work independently, whenever and wherever. All you need is a computer, Internet access, and interest in writing, translating, researching, or data processing.
From the website:
What Does A Clickworker Do?
We are always looking for people from anywhere on the planet who enjoy writing, translating, researching, and data processing. As a Clickworker you earn money working completely independently on your own schedule from any personal computer with Internet access.
Each Clickworker chooses by himself or herself, from the pool of available projects, those tasks that (s)he wants to take on. The tasks available may vary from Clickworker to Clickworker based on qualification assessments, previous work assessments, education, language abilities, and declared interests. You may qualify for different projects.
Depending on your total profile and qualifications you may be offered specific projects or may be excluded from some projects.
Payment is paid for each completed and accepted task. The amount is fixed and published ahead of time. Payments are made via Paypal.
According to clickworker.com..
The tasks here at clickworker.com are smaller, in- and by themselves completed, microjobs. Depending on qualifications, speed, practice, and concentration you can earn well over $10.00 per hour. On average, we expect that a Clickworker earns $9.50 per hour. Each Clickworker independently decides, when, where and how much (s)he works. Since many microjobs can be completed in just seconds you can stop and start anytime. As a result, Clickworkers can work anytime, anywhere.
I wonder how this differs from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk? Should I have someone from clickworker.com on my radio show? Let me know what you think!
Absolutely, have them on your radio show. Their site says they’ve been in Europe for several years and all I can find is information in German. I’m definitely concerned about giving them my social security number when I apply for a job with them. I believe, from their site’s info, that asking for it is part of the app process. I’m going to go their now and check it out for myself. I’m not giving my social, though, unless I’m hired. Gee, how will I even know they are legit until I actually receive some pay? Not sure.
Thanks.
I’ve contacted them but haven’t heard back. They do have an English version of the site. There’s a link on the upper-right that says English.
I took a look at the registration form and they’re not asking for a social security number there. I’ll look into that further. They would need it at some point as you would be a contractor for them.
I’m currently with amazons’ mech. turk program. Frankly I’m not impressed…jobs that pay well, are for the most part,no longer available. Lower paying jobs are to be honest just plain tedious. I just saw an ad for clickworkers and was wondering if I should give it a try? Has any one made any money with these programs?
I am fully registered with clickworker and they do not require your social security number for sign up, but they do have to validate your paypal account for payment processing. I just registered yesterday and spent a few minutes completing jobs this morning and it’s super easy.
Good to know…keep us posted on how that works out for you Morgan.
I’ve been with Mturk for almost 2 years. Love it and have made quite a bit of extra cash. You have to be dedicated and make it work for you. It’s a great source for extra money, but it will never be a full-time paycheck. You need to be realistic about that!
Sighned up first task was to make a craigslist posting for employment after i did all three tasks there was no work available.
seems like a scam to keep them on top on craigslist all the time the posting was flagged and removed shortly after. At 50cents a job its not really worth it u have to total 10 dollars to even get paid the three jobs i did payed only 1.05 and now no more projects.
Hope this helps
Joe
Well, I’ve heard from their COO and I will be scheduling him as a guest on my radio show. Feel free to email me questions that you’d like to ask him.
Ok well why is there no more jobs after u finish 3 thats it and 1.05 for 20 mins work why so little? some of the tasks where worth a penny each if you dont make 10 bucks u dont get paid it’s like they are getting the free labor and then cutting u off there so they dont have to pay out. I have been in marketing for 3 years im more then qualified for harder tasks but 3 seems to be all there is.
Thanks
Joe
.-= joe´s last blog ..“Star Wars” in der Crowdsourcing-Version =-.
This is exactly the sort of thing I’ll be asking him Joe.
I have had the same experience, Sharon. I signed up 5/9 and have completed all the tasks available to me except one about finding “right wing extremism” on the web that pays $0.01 per task. I have completed all the assessments available in English and have made $1.00. The SSN is in lieu of a W-9. I went ahead and gave it, thinking that Clickworker would have less spam-like stuff than MTurk, but I am disappointed.
It says at the top that there are over 7,000 jobs available, and it’s hard to believe that all those are in languages other than English, so that is a question I would like to hear your guest asked.
Great let me know how it goes please!!!
.-= joe´s last blog ..“Star Wars” in der Crowdsourcing-Version =-.
Hi Joe, if you are able to you should listen to the show live on Fridays at 11am Eastern/8am Pacific on Your Way To Work At Home. Click on the blue arrow on the upper-right where it says TOGINETRADIO LIVE. If you miss the live show, you’ll be able to listen to the podcasts anytime from that website, here on the blog or on iTunes.
I don’t know if you already aired the show pertaining to “Clickworker” or not, but I wanted to add my experience here. I’ve only been with them for about a week, and like Joe they are not offering me any jobs. I completed three tasks and that has been all. So far I have earned one dollar. The site now states that there are 24,000 jobs available, but apparently none of them are in english, which I find difficult to believe as well. However, if it is true then I don’t know why the site advertises for ENGLISH clickworkers.
Hi Gabrielle,
Yes, the show aired last Friday but you can listen to the podcast (as well as any past show podcasts) on iTunes. This was one of my main questions for David and he did address it. Hopefully it will clarify things for you.
–Thanks for listening!
Clickworker.com is a TOATL and complete SCAM!!!! NOTHING ELSE! Be careful as you will get paid $0, and work for free, and provide them with a bunch of information about yourself with zero return. SCAM!!!!!!!!!
I have quite the same issue. I have done 2 assessments: an english test, and a qualification for english writer, both for which I received very high scores. I didn’t understand why I’m not being offered a single job, so asked them. They told me that most of the jobs require bilingual skills so I took another assessment: qualification for something-other-than-english writer and now waiting for its evaluation. hopefully I get a job
i might share how it went in a few days.
Hi Ken, I’d be interested in hearing the specifics of your experience with Clickworker.com….
Hi Daniel, I recently interviewed Clickworker.com’s COO, David Moufarrege on my radio show. He did discuss the fact that most of the work is currently bilingual, but that they were in negotiations with some large U.S. based companies that would result in more work for non-bilingual workers. The company is brand new and their growth has been beyond their expectations so they’re still a bit behind the curve. David does a better job of explaining what their plans are and the timeframe. Give the interview a listen on iTunes.
I also found an ad in my tiny corner of the world for jobs on Craig’s List. I made 50 cents (guess I’ll never see it, anymore than I will see a penny from those Survey sites paying 1 or 2 cents a day for 10-20 minutes of work). I could grab another 50 cents for posting this job, but I don’t think I can do it: Why would I wanna help this company make more money by advertising for MORE workers, while the rest of us already work … well, so far … for nothing. I don’t where the $9.50 an hour comes in … it used to be that in Euros when they were humangrid. Hell, I’d be satisfied with have that if they could keep me working 60-80 hours a week. I would be lucky to get $3 an hour at oDesk.
Michael,
You may want to listen to the interview I did with Clickworker COO David Moufarrege….he addresses this issue.
Sharon, it sure seems like you are an employee of clickworker and this radio show is supposed to make us feel all better, when I am sure it was probably just set up for that purpose. After reading all of the comments on here, I don’t even have the desire to listen to the show or register with clickworker.
Hi Jenna. Well, I must be an employee of Lionbridge, Convergys, Alpine Access, VIPdesk, Working Solutions, ChaCha, Demand Studios, Suite101 and the Telework Exchange as well because they’ve all been on my show too
Sorry you feel that way but you certainly have the choice to not listen to it.
thank you Sharon and others for your experiences and questions about ‘working online’.
Would like to work online and am exploring that. Probably won’t go with the ‘click’..seems too many holes to fall into.
I was really hoping to find some answers on here that would persuade me to join clickworker, but apparently this is not a good program from what Iv’e read here. If anyone is looking for some sort of work at home opportunities I have recently joined a global domains company but I can’t really say much on it as I’m new to it. If any of you are interested check out my affiliate website at donjoshie.ws
Well they seem to have made it to the far corners of Canada now too; as our local craigslist is running the ad.
Nothing positive on their facebook page and nothing positive here. I’m not even going to bother…don’t know why these types of organizations are allowing to remain in business!!
Hi all,
“1001 hints…”)
(Virtualizing the assembly line)
Humangrid GmbH or Clickworker.com is a service in which I’ve enrolled myself too. … But: Other than most of the people here, I am bilingual and have some more insights in all… Yes, it is true, they are (haha) brand-new. The thing runs like this: Customer is ordering a big project from them, they cut everything into tiny pieces and do QA, put the pieces together again, QA, and deliver it. Well… Most of the jobs are simply NOT THERE I’ve completed most assessments (with good success) and not that many jobs are occurring. Besides there are jobs to author texts and then there are jobs to lector for first (QA) texts… but at first I hesitated to be a man who reviews and rates others texts. But because of no jobs, I changed my mind, and made the necessary assessment result (about 80%) was: I had to correct my own written texts for a fracture of the money. ??? WTH! Hmmmm… Yes they have other “projects” but not very often and most community processes are happening inside FaceBook! LOL! (give me a megaphone). It’s really saddening for somebody who consider himself as “very clever” – about teb-(Research) techniques and then doing jobs like that. I don’t really know what to think, but doing such a job for the end of my life would kill me (in fact it will do it much faster because of my internet connetction fees). Good Advice: You have to pass ALL assessments as good as you can (otherwise you will NOT see jobs for those you aren’t qualified). Summary. I don’t know, I really don’t, and I have no fun at all in doing my last assessments in spanish and french, which i could help.) post.scriptum: Most of the projects are for well paying clients (therefore listing something on Google Earth), Optimzing texts for search engines (Yeah: Google Instant!) … and other things more.) Perhaps they are improving their processes later, but for now it is really “peculiar”.
Greetings, Andreas_P (if Questions are there I may help further … and I really could need some money; I do have a flattr account
I’ve been working with clickworker.com for several months now. It’s great for making extra money, but not as a regular source of income since jobs are not always available. Some jobs pay great while others are almost not worth doing because it takes so much time to complete the task for too little pay. The companies that give work to clickworker.com are the ones who choose how much the projects will be worth. One month I made just over $300, but I think that was very rare and I don’t think I’ll ever make that much again in one month. Some months I have not met the minimum $20 payout, so I made nothing. This can be a good way to pick up some extra money especially if you enjoy writing articles and can write somewhat fast. They give you 2-3 hours to complete each project, but the faster you can write the more money you can make.
I am kind of worried when I read the opinions here. I wanted to try Clickworker.com and I think I still will. I hope what Snowflakes says is true. I think I’ll write some feedback when I register and start doing tasks. We will see how it is for real.
Lately, there have been several data entry jobs involving LinkedIn, which I LOVED doing. However, the instructions were rather vague. The name of the project was Gain specified business elements available on LinkedIn.com
They say you have to imput into their fields, the description of a company (if available, number of employees on LinkedIn, corporate website (if available, and Industry. What they didn’t say was, WHAT you are supposed to put in those fields, if you don’t find the information (some LinkedIn profiles are imcomplete). The corporate website field wouldn’t let you put just “none” or “N/A”, and it would keep asking for a website. So I had to put http://www.none as I saw that on another part of that project where they had the Validations on LinkedIn. Also, the ones that didn’t have descriptions, were left blank, but a couple of mine were rejected because of that.
I only wish the instructions on the projects would be a little more detailed, is all.
Other than that, I like it alright. I have about $27 in there ready to cash out on the 7th, if no more jobs come.
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Also, to let everyone know, Clickworker DOES pay on time. I got my first payments last week. One on the 7th, and another one on the 8th.
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I have been a clickworker for several months. You have to give them your SSN as they give you a 1099 on your “earnings”. (they are a legitimate business, but DON’T work for them!!) I use the word “earnings” loosely. For example, I tried to recently report them to every institution available for simply not paying me for work done. They have a list of jobs. The job says “X” amount pay. So I take it. Since that particular job didn’t take as long as they thought it should, I did not get paid… AT ALL!! I e-mailed them after several dozen of these jobs, and therefore several dollars not showing up in my account. They knew about it and told me to go ahead and report them-it will do no good. And they were right. Since it is contractual, they are not required to abide by any laws. Still seems like they should have to pay me. I have to take them to court to get anything. Another example, I just stopped working when I added it up. I was getting $.12 per job and really rushing through it. I’ve done several of these and am quite proficient. It took me 90 seconds to do each job… That’s $4.80 per hour. I immediately stopped working and went back to being with my family. It’s unfortunate how many people are getting taken advantaged of in this economy. We’re desperate for any work. I have a disabled husband and a young child. I live too far from any work to have a regular job. It is really a shame.
@debby & @all
If a job is done and accepted, it doesn’t matter how much time it took – the money you get will remains the same. You won’t get less (or nothing) if you manage to finish it faster than others.
The only reason for a job not being paid (or the money being subtracted from your account) is that it is going back to you for rework (in case it’s a written text) or that the job was done wrong and cannot be accepted.
Regarding the payment in general: Please keep in mind that we currently (there will be a change in the near future) only pay accounts with a payable balance of more than $10 on payment day.
However, we WILL most likely change this payment method very soon for PayPal-Accounts (which includes all US-Clickworkers). The plan is to pay on a weekly basis and to SKIP the $10 restriction. We think of this as a good improvement for all our US-Clickworkers as many of them currently do not reach this $10 very easily.
If there are any ambiguities to be removed or problems that you want to tell us about, don’t hesitate to write to us. Both help-us@clickworker.com or help-de@clickworker.com will always be glad to support you in the best way we can.
Daniel Marz
Support & Community Management clickworker.com
I’ve been working now for 2 days in clickworker and got some very rude comments on a text I wrote in French. I was apparently supposed to make a research on the topic I was writing about, with specific tourism information, informations on cities and all. All this for…3 euros. Sorry people, I’m not going to spend two days looking for tourism information for you, for 3 euros. Go find someone more desperate than me, anyway I would earn more money begging in the metro.
I think they should be ashamed, and I just signed out their website.
Audrey, thanks for your information. I was considering signing up with clickworker. Clickworker is now advertising on CalJobs, the official State of California website for job seekers. People receiving Unemployment Compensation use that website. Somehow I assumed that jobs on the State of California website would be legitimate jobs. Guess not…
I was excited to find Clickworker.com, as I have been writing for several sites, but the money isn’t there. I had not heard of this site before, and since I write for one that is similar, and has proven to be very successful for me, I was anticipating that this one also would be good, and offer some options. However, I have not registered yet, and judging by others’ experience, will not be. Too many sites rely on writer desperation, and do not pay legitimately for good work. Research takes time, and producing good script takes talent. To pay pennies for an hour’s or more work doesn’t make sense, and is not fair to writers. I hope they are able to upgrade this business, as there certainly is a need for good writers and a site that offers at least fair pay.
Rita, I, too, found this through the CalJobs posting. I googled and found this site, in the midst of registering. I think I’ll skip this. Sounds very suspect. And for every success out there, there’s probably hundreds not finding it worthwhile. Thank you for everyone who has posted on here, otherewise I might have wasted precious time. I’m looking for that elusive ‘work from home’ job. Is there really no such thing out there? Good luck to everyone else.
I found click worker.com on craigslist. I checked out their website and it sounded like an interesting concept. I started to register and then thought I’d take a moment and google them before I gave out all my sensitive info. I am glad I did. I found several pages like this one– sharing all the horror stories. Thank you everyone for the information… I won’t be finishing my registration with clickworker.com.
It makes me sad that over and over and over these companies are burning so many people.
WE JUST WANT SOME HONEST MONEY FOR SOME HONEST WORK! geez
Sharon, even when I get off your site and try to do research, some how I always end up back here. You have a wonderful site. I have never heard of ClickWorker.com or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. I am going to research both. I think this may be my new way to earn money from home. Thank you again! (As always!!)
“…for all our US-Clickworkers as many of them currently do not reach this $10 very easily.”
I think that sums up the biggest problem, at least for US workers. If most of them have a hard time reaching $10 per week, what is the point of signing up? The person who mentioned begging on the metro is right. Panhandlers can make FAR more money than these poor saps working their tails off for these work-from-home companies.
Katy,
This may be true of Clickworker, but it’s not fair to generalize that way about all companies that offer work from home jobs. There are many companies that hire home based workers, many on a full time basis, some with benefits. The companies that offer legitimate jobs for a decent wage require specific skill sets and experience. I think where people get in trouble is when they are looking for easy money for tasks that require very little skill.
If a company cannot guarantee a regular paycheck for work done…then why would anyone agree to work for them? Everyone should take a step back and evaluate what their time is worth. Clickworker.com and other “so-called” work from home enterprises profit only the person who sets up this kind of website business. Everyone should be leery of giving anyone on the internet their personal information…never give your social security number to anyone over the net…you don’t know them and you should not trust them with your personal information. I would not recommend even giving your phone number (either cell or landline) to anyone over the net…hackers are so prevalent in Europe and Asia and Africa. Crime cartels in the old Soviet states use personal information in all kinds of scams.
I have registered in click worker and I did some assessment and got good escorts, but is very suspicious that is not jobs available yet.
The majority of those companies are Just Scammers, with different strategies, excuses and methods.
Regardless of your talent they always stop you when you are one step away to reach the minimal amount of money that you can receive.
Please don’t waste your time and talent for companies like this because they doesn’t deserve your dedication.
Those who always comment that the company is good maybe are paid for the company to say it.
I have registered in click worker and I did some assessment and got good escorts, but is very suspicious that is not jobs available yet. Thanks for the information; this is the best time to stop working with them.
The majority of those companies are taking advantage of the people’s necessity with different strategies, excuses and methods.
They always stop you when you are one step away to reach the minimal amount of money that you can receive.
Please don’t waste your time and talent for companies like this because they doesn’t deserve your dedication.
Those who always comment that the company is good maybe are paid for the company to say it.
Wow. I just found out about Clickworker and went to the site today. I just signed up, but after finding and reading these comments I am going to cancel. I did some work for Demand Studios and they paid up to $15 for a job, not 15 cents. Thanks for the warning.
I’ve done some work for Clickworker. It took about a month to be paid, but they did pay. It’s easy work. Right now they have a lot of jobs available. It’s not good pay by any means, but it’s the sort of thing you can do while watching T.V.
I wanted to edit to add that the reason it took a month for my first paypal deposit was that I hadn’t provided some information. Once I provided it, I was paid the following Friday. Right now it’s a better gig than Demand Media…but that’s not saying much.
Thank you all for the responses, it makes things very clear.
I qualify for three languages and can basically get jobs, always. But its hardly worth it. Best paying job right now is 6 dollars for 700 words, requiring substantial research. Effective hourly wage of, as someone else pointed out, less than the internet and power costs you incur while online. Not to mention opportunity cost, begging it is…
Clickworker, crowdsourcing platform, milks new applicants for labor. I can hardly believe there is someone on here who actually cashed in 300 in one month. Their business model is, and this is an educated guess, profiting from new workers who complete a small number of jobs, over and over again.
Sharon looks cute. Is that how she makes her money?
Yes, that’s how I built my business over the past 14 years…by being cute. Really?