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Work-at-Home Job Company Profile: Appen Butler Hill

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Industry:

Translation, transcription, search evaluation

Company Description:

Formed in 2011 with the merger of Appen Pty Ltd. and the Butler Hill Group, the "language technology solutions and consulting firm" offers clients services in data collection, transcription, data annotation, search relevance evaluation and linguistic consulting in more than 120 languages and dialects.

Types of Work-at-Home Opportunities at Appen Butler Hill:

The company offers most employees the option to work from home or any location worldwide. It also has a number of freelance or independent contractor positions that are home-based. These include jobs in:
  • translation
  • crowdsourcing projects
  • transcription
  • search evaluation
  • localization
  • sourcing
  • data annotation

Applying to Appen Butler Hill:

Choose to search either "Careers" or "Freelance Work" at the Appen Butler Hill website. Search evaluator jobs are found in both places, but most of the positions are listed under freelance.

For search evaluation jobs, if you don't see one in your language or location you may complete a general application, and the company will contact you when it has a suitable project available. Web search evaluators must complete a qualification process that involves completing a review of qualification materials and a series of exams. The process may take up to 25-40 hours of commitment over 1 to 3 weeks.

Qualifications:

Qualifications vary for the different positions. Some require a college degree but most don't. All will require some kind of test of your language abilities. For search evaluation jobs you must be "a native or near native speaker" in the require language.

Work-at-home independent contractors need to provide their own computer with antivirus software and high-speed Internet. Some projects might require a headset with a microphone that uses VOIP.

Languages that Appen Butler Hill works in include Arabic (Egyptian, Gulf, Iraqi, Levantine, MSA, Syrian, Maghrebi Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan, Tunisian), Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bakhtiari (Iran), Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese, (China PRC, Hong Kong), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English (Australian, Canadian, Gulf, Indian, Irish, New Zealand, Singapore, South African, UK, US), Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French (Belgian, Canadian, French), Gallego (Galician), German (Austrian, German, Swiss), Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kermanji (Iran), Korean, Kurdish Sorani, Laki (Iran), Latvian, Lithuanian, Luri (Iran), Malayalam, Malagasy, Mandarin (China, Taiwan), Marathi Mazanderani (Iran), Oriya, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian, European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish (European, Middle and South American, US), Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wu and Xiang.

If you have skills in one of these languages or others but don’t see a current opening, you may submit an application for "Linguists - Different Languages" in the "Linguistics" type of project section in the freelance work database.

Pay and Benefits:

According to Glassdoor.com, pay is $13-15 an hour* (similar to Google ads rater jobs' pay) for independent contracting work as search evaluators and data annotators. Crowdsourcing projects are paid at a rate per HIT, which varies but ranges from $0.01 - $0.10 per HIT submitted. · Payments of a $50 minimum are made on a bimonthly basis by paper check.

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