I recently came across a work at home job opportunity that might interest you. There are two companies that are offering home based jobs in the field of Internet research.
Leapforce is hiring Search Engine Evaluators. According to their website…
Leapforce is looking for highly educated individuals for an exciting work from home opportunity. Applicants must be self motivated and internet savvy. This is an opportunity to evaluate and improve search engine results for one of the world’s largest internet search engine companies.
Guaranteed pay. No set hours or schedules. Exciting Work.Leapforce at Home agents enjoy guaranteed hourly pay, have no set work hours or schedules and enjoy the benefits of running their own home-based business.
As a Leapforce At Home independent agent you will have the flexibility to schedule your own hours to fit your lifestyle and to work around your career and family demands. You are given complete freedom to choose when and how much you would like to work. Never again will you have to rearrange your personal activities to fit a rigid work schedule. For any given day, you are free to work more or less time. You are in control.
All Leapforce At Home agents enjoy guaranteed hourly pay as independent contractors. And there are never any complicated payment schemes or calculations to deal with.
Leapforce At Home agents conduct in depth internet-based research and provide information evaluation for leading companies from around the globe. Ideal candidates are self-reliant, self-motivated, are very internet savvy, have a broad range of interests and enjoy online research and evaluation.
You can apply with Leapforce here.
Also offering home based positions is Lionbridge. Lionbridge is looking for Internet Assessors. From their website:
Based in over 54 countries worldwide throughout Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America, the Lionbridge Rater Program is an opportunity for all types of people to earn money and assist in achieving the main objective of the program: the continuous improvement and quality of internet search capability. To achieve this, we have a search relevance program management team based at our European solution center in Ballina, Ireland who manage a Global Rater Team of over 1,500 people. The team also manages rater recruitment, pre and post examination support, payments, rater education and training, as well as productivity feedback to ensure successful candidates reach their full potential as a member of the Global Rater Team.
The Rater role involves evaluating results of a web search, for appropriateness to search query input. Participants will be required to provide their opinion of the result displayed based on a set of guidelines we provide. Hours of work are flexible. The recommended hours of work are 10-20 hours per week. Interested candidates must first successfully complete an exam before being accepted into the Rating Program. The exam consists of two sections: Section 1 has 24 theory questions and Section 2 consists of 270 practical exams. More detailed information will be provided in the study material.
You can apply to Lionbridge here.
I find it annoying that the job opportunities are for specific countries which means I can’t apply to it
Hi Jack,
Are you referring to Lionbridge specifically? I do know that their requirements change from time to time. You should check every so often to see if it opens up in your area.
If you mean the listings that I post here in general, many of the listings have no geographical requirements. Some do, but there are always jobs that don’t.
I presume that you get paid for promoting this company, but your comment about this company is ridiculous and clearly you have had NO real contact with them as an employee, or someone just trying to get through their ridiculous requirements for being hired. I have and their system stinks. I applied with them and was accepted to take their test. I studied very carefully and used the guidelines to take the test. I passed part 1 and was sent part two, which is 144 actual rating tasks, which many complaints I have read from others, state that they actually believe that you are being used for free labor.
I had problem after problem with glitches in their system while trying to submit those 144 tasks, and have no way of even knowing if they received all of them or not. I received an email stating that I had not passed Part 2, which I believe that I did, as I am a college educated woman, with experience at Internet research and followed their guidelines to a “T” while rating the 144 sites, however I took their reply and did as they asked and deleted all information from them off of my computer.
Their FAQ section states that you can not retake the test again, but within two minutes of being told that I did not pass Part 2, I was sent another email stating that I would be scheduled to again take the test the following week. Stupidly, I again did as was instructed by them and again studied the guidelines carefully and used them as instructed while taking Part 1 of the test, and I know that once again I passed it. Instead of receiving the email that I had when previously completing Part 1 and passing, I got an immediate auto generated email that did NOT state whether or not I had passed Part 1, like I received the time before, but simply stating that I was not a good fit for their scam company and was no longer being considered for the job. Needless to say I was angry at all of the wasted time, but I wrote it off.
Then today I get another auto generated email from this inept company stating that my test time had begun and AGAIN got the same instructions of how to log into the system and begin taking Part 1 of the SAME test I completed yesterday and NEVER received any confirmation as to whether or not I had passed it, along with Part 2 of the test. It is as if I HAD NEVER submitted my answers to Part 1 just yesterday at all. I have already wasted two weeks of my precious time with this unscrupulous company, and refuse to spend one more minute on them.
I have also been reading numerous complaints on boards stating just how badly this company is run, how poorly they treat their employees, how they have mass terminations with no cause, when people had received NOTHING BUT GOOD REVIEWS of their work, and how there is problems between the time that employees invoice the company for work done and the time that the company will pay them for. There is also NUMEROUS tasks for which people DO NOT get paid. You work for 30 days, invoice them and then wait up to another thirty days to get paid, if you get paid at all.
You either need to fully research this scam of a company before you write such a glowing review, or come clean that you are getting paid for giving them one.
Julie,
First, I am not compensated in any way by either Leapforce or Lionbridge. The post is strictly informational.
You’re right, I have never worked for either company. I did research both companies while I was writing this post back in February of 2009. I do research what I write about, but I don’t take it so far as to actually work for every company.
It’s unfortunate that you (and yes, it seems many others) have had such a negative experience. There are many others who have left positive feedback. I think that’s true for any company.
I hope you find a company that is a better match for you. Best of luck to you.