Jobs and businesses today have no physical boundaries. The Internet has provided vast medium and innumerable opportunities for all types of jobs.
Online careers are increasingly popular today and rightly so. If you don’t wish to work on someone else’s terms, you can have an online career and win that bread.
Certain things in pursuing an online career often boost your performance while you work from home. Apart from a proper PC set-up, a desk mobile phone holder, and office tools; utilizing online apps play an important role too.
There is always room for learning and improvement; here is a list of few applications that will help you shape up your work online
Grammarly
All online careers involve communication; particularly blogging or freelance writing and this app is a must-have. It helps correct any error made while writing and improves your communication skill by making it presentable. Below are the key features of the app:
- It helps you type and write mistake free on any application on your phone easily
- It can be seamlessly clubbed with Microsoft word as a viable option on the desktop for lengthier projects
English Pronunciation
When communicating online, it can be with anyone all around the world. Your words make your personality and represent you. It becomes imperative that verbal communication during voice or video calls is clear. This app helps to clean the English pronunciation.
- It makes you repeat the sentence until you get the correct pronunciation
- It has practice videos and helps you track progress
- It also has an artificial voice which tells you the correct pronunciation
VSCO
For all those involved in influencing and blogging through photography, this app is your go-to app. You could sell a place, or a dish through its photo by merely clicking photos is not enough. You need to work on them before posting to make them presentable and focus on the highlight.
This app has the following features:
- Offers all professional features and effects to enhance images
- Also, let’s you make a profile to popularize your work
Evernote
When all the job commitments are virtual, the phone becomes a sanctuary. A place that must have all essentials, all titbits, and takeaways. One place that keeps all the things you need. Evernote facilitates that for you. You can note anything and everything in it.
- This app allows you to type notes as well as upload scanned copy of the written notes
- It accepts audio notes and photos as well
- Everything can be searched instantly on this app
PayPal
Online business involves breaking boundaries and working for anyone around the world. One more essential aspect is how seamless the exchange of money can be. To make everyone’s life easier money transfer should be smooth and effortless which is ensured by this app. The app will:
- Allow you to transfer funds anywhere in the world
- Protect all transactions against fraudulent practices
One shop stop for all the latest trends on every topic to keep you updated. If your work involves being virtually active, you need to be updated with new ideas and the latest trends. If there is one rule in social media, it is that you cannot afford to fall back. Pinterest has easy access for all the required information and ensures you stay up to date.
- Allows to follow and pursue people and topics of interest as per choice
- Regular and latest updates are provided as per the choices listed
Magisto
Videos cannot always be taken in an ideal situation to get perfect audio, background, and effect. As a matter of fact, we never seem to have the ideal video. It will require editing and Magisto helps with that. It helps you create short movies and make videos presentable. This is important to promote your work online and make people appreciate it.
- It is a user-friendly app
- It has immense features available which give a lot of editing options
24me
When you work online, you are your own personal assistant, and while that is too tough, 24me makes it easy. You cannot keep track of everything on your own, more so if your work is not restricted to one particular client. 24me is a smart personal assistant available to make your life easy by doing things an actual assistant would do. The main features of the app are:
- It simplifies tasks ahead of your day and sets periodic reminders
- You can key in all your financial and emotional reminders and trust the app to remind you when it has to be done
Skype
When you are doing tasks virtually for someone, being able to connect with them quickly and at all times becomes essential. If they can’t talk to you, they might not have that balm of assurance. Skype helps you connect with everyone by a simple touch in an effective manner.
- You can make presentations and pitches for your upcoming projects
- You can provide all timely updates in a professional manner
Dropbox
Online jobs can involve substantial file sharing or transfers for which emails are not always practical. For any form of effective sharing, Dropbox helps. It is not just about the size but also about the sync. This app understands working connectively through distance and makes it plausible.
- It allows you to work on the same shared and synced files
- It allows easy conversion of documents in sharable PDF formats
Google Translate
You wouldn’t want the language to be a barrier to your work. The end client could belong to any country and speak any language; Google Translate will help you with global clients. You can understand what they are communicating even when the common language is not used.
- It can help you translate with the help of camera for images
- It enables you to save the searches for future references
Conclusion
The competition for work-at-home careers is not ending anytime soon nor is the race; the more resources you get, the more will be the opportunities available to you. We can’t always win the race, but we can certainly open more ground to explore.
