Short Story Writer

by | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized

EMPLOYER: Achieve3000

Achieve3000 welcomes submissions of original, unpublished, short literary fiction for high school readers for our differentiated literacy acceleration platform.

What We’re Looking For: Creative, compelling literary short stories (approximately 2,000 – 3,500 words max) of any genre and style of prose, as long as the content is appropriate for a high school classroom.

Before you submit, consider how your work might be discussed in the context of a literature lesson and ensure:

  • Your story begins in the midst of the action and includes the key elements of a short story—i.e., characterization, setting, plot and structure (e.g., conflict, climax, resolution, etc.).
  • It’s laced with symbolism, layered text, literary devices and descriptive language.
  • It features a unique voice and tone.

While submissions previously published on personal blogs are acceptable, we do not accept submissions previously published in other publications including those that have been self-published.

Submission Guidelines: Send stories in a Word document to [email protected]. Please include your full name, phone number, email address, and word count on the document, and include a note in your email if the story is under simultaneous consideration with other publications. Response time is between 1-2 months.

Rights: We purchase exclusive publishing rights to the story. All stories appear uncredited on our e-learning platform. Achieve3000 reserves the right to edit and revise stories for use at differentiated reading levels. All edited/revised versions remain the sole property of Achieve3000.

Compensation: We pay $1,500.00 per accepted story. Payment will be made within 30 days of fully executed contract.

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Fashion Specialist, Fashion Data Services

by | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized

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**Fashion Specialist***

Do you love fashion? Are you interested in both fashion and technology industries? If so, you have found the right match! Amazon is seeking an experienced fashion professional to help curate fashion data to drive machine learning and computer vision development, and provide real-time feedback that power various Amazon Fashion products, launches, and features.

At Amazon Fashion Data Services, we work closely with our internal stakeholders to help them launch new products and features while supporting them throughout the entire lifecycle. We provide high-quality human-annotated services to support Amazon Fashion initiatives such as, Outfit Recommendations and Automated Collections on Detail Page, and “Alexa, what should I wear?” responses.

The Fashion Specialist will need to come up to speed very quickly using Amazon’s internal tools, and will need to be able to evaluate a large number of garment images and define/optimize processes along the way. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of fashion knowledge and trends as well as what items of clothing work well together so that one can make the appropriate styling and outfit assessments.

This is a virtual remote position hiring for employees located in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Only.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
· Review a queue of garment images for multiple internal tools and provide a thoughtful assessment of pieces to build an outfit
· Audits machine learning to ensure relevant styling and fashion knowledge
· Curates fashion and styling responses for Alexa utterances
· Manages time between varying machine learning tasks and short term side projects, in alignment with business priorities and monthly allocation
· Own and track personal contributions to meet daily/weekly/monthly team productivity goals
· Possess flexibility to quickly adapt to business needs/changes
· Execute tasks in a timely manner and to a high degree of quality
· Identify opportunities for efficiency and automation, and help implement those improvements
· Operate as a self-starter to stay focused on repetitive tasks for long periods of time.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Required qualifications:
· 2+ years Fashion industry experience in fashion styling, merchandising, marketing, retail, design, or editorial work.
· Excellent written and oral communication skills
· Ability to stay focused on repetitive tasks for long periods of time

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:
· Bachelors or Associate degree in fashion or journalism, or equivalent experience.
· Experience in writing (i.e. copy writing, content editing or fashion blogging)
· Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills

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Transcriptionist

by | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized

Want to enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere? Work from home as a transcriptionist with Rev. Freelancers at Rev are detail-oriented people who follow Rev’s styling rules to accurately type and correct draft transcripts. To get started, you’ll need strong English skills, a computer, and a dependable Internet connection.

Get paid weekly

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$245 – Average earnings per month

$1495 – Top monthly earning

Become a transcriptionist with Rev

Start working from home in 3 easy steps

1. Sign up and get approved to transcribe

Take a quiz and submit a transcript to demonstrate your mastery of the English language and Rev’s styling rules. If you’re approved, you can start working right away.

2. Choose from available transcription jobs

You’ll find hundreds of transcription jobs to choose from. Select jobs you’re interested in and work as little or as much as you prefer.

3. Get paid weekly via PayPal

As a transcriptionist, you’ll get paid every Monday for all audio files transcribed and completed the prior week.

Our freelance transcriptionists are skilled typists who convert audio files to text. Transcription jobs could range from creating a transcription of recorded interviews and focus groups to lectures and podcasts. Work as much as you want, from wherever you want.

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Transcription work is plentiful. Because customers in industries ranging from market research to news media depend on transcripts to do their jobs well, there’s always a steady stream and wide range of projects for our freelance transcriptionists to claim.

Benefits of working with Rev

  • Decide what you want to work on
  • Pick from a variety of lectures, interviews, podcasts and more to transcribe.
  • Get paid weekly
  • Receive weekly payouts via PayPal for all work completed. Rev is on-time and dependable.

Choose your own schedule

Work as much or as little as you want, whenever you want. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.

Freelancers love using Rev to make money

Frequently asked questions

What does being a freelance transcriptionist with Rev entail?

As a transcription freelancer with Rev, you’ll have access to a list of customer audio that needs transcribing. You can claim and work on any jobs you choose, subject to meeting Rev’s quality requirements for freelancer work. The audio content, pay, and deadline are all listed upfront so you can decide if the transcription job is a good fit for you and your schedule. Rev provides a web-based transcription editor that you use to capture all audible English speech in an audio file. Customers receive an interactive version of the transcript that can be downloaded into other formats, like PDF, .txt, and MS Word.

What are the requirements to be a freelance transcriptionist with Rev?

You must have strong English language skills and be able to accurately transcribe audio. We ask you to take a grammar quiz and submit a transcription sample prior to being approved to transcribe with Rev. We will provide you with guidelines on how to ensure your transcription sample meets the quality standards expected by customers. Transcriptionists do not need demonstrated prior experience or any special qualifications.

Do I need equipment?

You need a desktop or laptop computer and a reliable internet connection. You can claim freelance transcription jobs and complete them all through Rev’s online platform.

Captioner

by | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized

Employer: Rev.com

Want to enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere? Work from home as a captioner with Rev. To get started, you’ll need strong English skills, a computer, and a dependable Internet connection.

Get paid weekly

Sent via Paypal

$240 – Average earnings per month

$1570 – Top monthly earning

Become a captioner with Rev

Start working from home in 3 easy steps

1. Sign up and get approved to caption

Take a grammar quiz and submit a captioning sample to demonstrate your English language and grammar skills. If you’re approved, you can start working right away.

3. Choose from available captioning jobs

You’ll find hundreds of caption jobs to choose from. Select jobs you’re interested in and work as little or as much as you prefer.

3. Get paid weekly via PayPal

As a captioner, you’ll get paid every Monday for all audio files captioned and completed the prior week.

Captioning jobs could range from writing captions for YouTube videos to working on closed captions for a movie or a big brand’s marketing videos.

As online video rises in popularity, so has the demand for skilled captioners. Today, video producers from all industries recognize the importance of accurate, well-timed captions. Because of this, there’s always a steady stream of interesting projects for our captioners to complete.

Benefits of working with Rev

  • Decide what you want to work on
  • Pick from a variety of educational videos, movies, TV shows, and more to caption.
  • Get paid weekly
  • Receive weekly payouts via PayPal for all work completed. Rev is on-time and dependable.
  • Choose your own schedule
  • Work as much or as little as you want, whenever you want. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.

Frequently asked questions

What is captioning?

Captioning is the creation of text-based closed captions from video audio. In addition to typing the dialogue, captioners also describe sound effects and music cues to help viewers understand what’s going on. Captioners then time the captions to the audio.

What does being a freelance captioner with Rev entail?

As a freelance captioner with Rev, you’ll have access to a list of customer videos that need captioning. You can claim and work on any jobs you choose, subject to meeting Rev’s quality requirements for freelancer work. The video content, pay, and deadline are all listed upfront so you can decide if the captioning job is a good fit for you and your schedule.

Rev provides a web-based captioning editor you use to capture all audible English speech, sound effects, music, and lyrics in a video file. Customers receive an easy to edit version of the caption file that can be downloaded in many forms.

What are the requirements to be a freelance captioner with Rev?

You must have strong English language skills and be able to accurately caption audio. We ask you to take a grammar quiz and submit a caption sample prior to being approved to caption with Rev. We will provide you with guidelines on how to ensure your caption sample meets the quality standards expected by customers.

Captioners do not need demonstrated prior experience or any special qualifications.

Do I need equipment?

You need a desktop or laptop computer and a reliable internet connection. You can claim freelance captioning jobs and complete them all through Rev’s online platform.

APPLY HERE