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Earn Money Online with Micro Job ( Websites)
This post provides information for the online job seekers to make money online with micro job websites.
The internet technology has changed our lives by providing unlimited information and helps to connect with the world through social networks, emails, video chatting and so on.
We should thank to the internet as we could work and make money from home in many different ways. Yes, there are plenty of ways to earn money online without investment.
Now days, most of the people are looking for the sources to earn money online as it has various advantages like comfort of work from home, work without travel and not much skills are needed to perform them.
While saying the words “online money making” then the three popular ways named Blogging, Freelancing and Affiliate marketing strikes my mind. But all these need consistency, dedication and patience to thrive in it.
Then, you might ask “How come the people with little skills can make money online?”
Here is the answer!
Since the outsourcing is working well for big businesses, it is logical for the medium and small businesses too. So they need workers to perform short and easy jobs for small fee to get their job have done effortlessly.
As the growing number of people are ready to work from their home at spare time, many start-up organizations are overcoming the frustrations by getting the required jobs done on time from them.
Working with small projects and earn money with it? Yes, it is called Micro lancing and let’s discuss in detail.
What is Microlancing or Microfreelance?
Micro lancing is a freelancing job where the type of jobs could be done in a short period of time.
In other words, workers can complete the mini projects with little experience or even with no experience and get paid for it.
What are the advantages of doing micro jobs over freelancing?
Workers need not to work hard to fine the micro jobs and little time is required to complete these types of jobs.
Unlike freelancing, most of the websites offer the jobs without the bidding system and it is possible to earn money without any specific skill.
Moreover, not much reputation and attractive profile are needed to perform the micro jobs.
What are the types of Micro jobs?
There are various types of microjobs and let’s check some of it.
Online services marketplace:
- Workers offer small service for buyers with a little fee.
Simple online tasks:
- Buyers posts simple tasks on microjob websites and get the work has done by the people who are willing to do it.
Writing and commenting on blogs:
- Busy blog owners required workforces to write short articles and comments for their blog.
Real world tasks:
- Some types of buyers need to finish the jobs which cannot be done online.
Crowdsourcing jobs:
- Some online companies hire people to complete small tasks for their large projects.
Surveys and reward programs:
Many online businesses pay money to the people to participate in surveys and reward programs to improve the quality of their product/service.
Useful Micro Job websites to make money online
Conclusion
Many websites acts as a platform between the businesses which need to get a variety of small jobs to be done and the people with various skills who want to make money online.
Within a short period, the micro jobs has become popular among the people to earn money online as it requires simple tasks without bidding system.
Search for the legitimate microjob websites and register in it. Offering quality work to them rather than focussing to make money with it would improve your presence among the buyers and so you’ll getdirect offers from them.
Most of the microjob websites are paying money through Paypal, so it would be better to create a Paypal account to withdraw the payout.
I earned some bucks with Fiverr and iwriter with my writing skill.
What do you say about make money online with Microjob websites? Speak your opinion
Odd Questions Asked During A Job Interview
Ever heard of horror stories where the candidate is asked a totally unrelated question out of the blue at the interview table? "Why is a manhole cover round?" "Which part of the sandwich is the most important?" "Name three things you would like to have with you if you were stranded on a deserted island."
(Image Source: Fotolia)We doubt any job is going to leave you stranded on a deserted island anytime soon but yes, Mr. Interviewer, why do you torture candidates with questions like these? The truth is, they are asked for a variety of reasons, but it’s not because they want the answer.
In fact, some of these questions don’t have a correct answer. What the recruiters are interested in is what your answers can tell them about you.
Types Of Oddball Questions
But first, let’s take a look at how odd (aka nerve-wracking) these questions can be. Glassdoor is the best place to take a look at the weirdest interview questions ever put forth by corporations, questions like:
- "How many cows are there in Canada?" – Google
- "How many quarters would you need to reach the height of the Empire State building?" – Jet Blue
- "How would people communicate in a perfect world?" – Novell
- "Estimate how many windows are in New York." – Bain & Company
- "Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when time is 11:50" – Bank of America
Looks like we’re screwed, aren’t we?
What’s The Point?
Believe it or not, the answer is not the most important thing. What interviewers are looking for (if they know what they are doing – more on that later) revolves around three things:
- to see your confidence level and how you react to something unexpected
- to see if you can think out of the box, put more than just your degree on the table
- to see if you can solve new, upcoming problems which may not have a textbook answer.
Be Ready For Anything
Note that these are the questions that are asked by people bent on catching you off guard, so it’shighly unlikely that you would be able to get the question ‘right’. However, you’d still have to think of something that beats "I don’t know, what’s the answer?".
If your response runs along the lines of asking someone else what the answer is, or a mere I don’t know (or I don’t really care), good luck getting a phone call back.
Quick!
How many penguins would it take to surround the North Pole? And give 2 standard deviations from your answer (Goldman Sachs).
Your Grasp Of Concepts
If you are the trying sort, remember that for some of these questions, your approach to the question is more important than the answer itself. While in school or university, we’re taught to give the right answer, it is the concepts that are in the limelight when it comes to solving real-life problems.
Think Out Of The Box
How do you put an elephant in a fridge in three steps. Take a minute to think about it if this is new to you. Done? Just open the door to the fridge, put the elephant in then close the door. It’s a perfectly legitimate answer to a perfectly legitimate question, and it satisfies the three-step requirement too!
The only dead weight holding back this answer was probably the common knowledge that an elephant is usually a lot bigger than even your largest fridge. Toss that out and the answer is so elegantly simple, Einstein would have been proud.
Here’s a variation of that question involving a nickel-sized you and a blender, and what one author thinks is a possible answer.
How do you put an elephant in a fridge in three steps. Take a minute to think about it if this is new to you. Done? Just open the door to the fridge, put the elephant in then close the door. It’s a perfectly legitimate answer to a perfectly legitimate question, and it satisfies the three-step requirement too!
The only dead weight holding back this answer was probably the common knowledge that an elephant is usually a lot bigger than even your largest fridge. Toss that out and the answer is so elegantly simple, Einstein would have been proud.
Here’s a variation of that question involving a nickel-sized you and a blender, and what one author thinks is a possible answer.
Hints And Tips
These questions burn up the Internet because of their ambiguous nature. And by the time you get to the interview table, chances are the interviewers have changed the questions. So basically you can’t prepare for these questions, or can you?
Here are three things that may help.
- The questions relate to the job role you are applying for, or what the company does, so try to keep that at the back of your head at all times.
- Secondly, the recruiters are probably using this question to settle a tie. Leave an impression.
- Lastly, don’t take it too seriously, because sometimes even the interviewers have no idea what they are doing.
Clueless Interviewers
Yes, not all interviewers know what they are doing. In smaller companies, instead of an HR executive, well-trained in recruitment techniques, the boss or the managers are doing the interviewing. Some companies use weird questions like these simply because everyone else is using it.
And research is revealing that questions that are ‘designed to scare‘ should be removed from the interview table. A company could lose a real good candidate who has passed everything else with flying colors apart from the one oddball interview question that had no reason to be there in the first place.
The Best Tactic
So after all that, what should you do when asked weird questions like these? Have fun with it, but try to make the interviewers remember you. As an example, remember the question about using penguins to measure the North Pole?
If asked that, I’d probably say I wouldn’t know what the answer would be but penguins do not live at the North Pole and more importantly, the North Pole doesn’t really physically exist. There isn’t really a pole there, or an area with a border. It’s just ice, everywhere. Then, I’d pray that they won’t ask me to use unicorns to measure rainbows.
7 Tips to Stop Procrastinating on the Job
We all procrastinate at some point in our career but most of us don’t realize that we have been doing it until someone points it out, or when we (finally) get in trouble for it.
Procrastination, perhaps, has never been the direct cause of someone’s failure with a project but the resulting impact from it may be: poor planning or the lack of any planning may cause the project to be half done, pulling an all-nighter to finish the job may be bad for health, or it could lead to problems within the team tasked with doing the job.
It’s a sort of deferment, which creates or leads to all sorts of problems, and you end up losing the trust people put in you to finish the job. Why should you risk facing a tiger on a prowl, when you can easily capture it and put it in a cage? Or even better, tame the beast within.
In this article, we look at 7 ways to stop procrastinating on the job.
1. Pomodoro Technique
It has been revealed that the human brain has the tendency to lose interest if they work over long periods of time on a task without any reward. This need for instant gratification is manipulated in video games, for instance, crossing a pit stop lets you level up, giving you an instant bonus thus rewarding you for staying on in the game. You do not procrastinate in games.
You can apply that self-regulating method in your work as well. The Pomodoro technique says that individuals should use clocks to work for a certain period of time, and then reward themselves with a break. You can look out for Promodoro apps if you need a bit of help from handy tools for your desktop or smartphone.
2. Realising The Effects Of Procrastinating
Another way to stop procrastinating is to really dwell on the effects of when you do procrastinate. Procrastination can result in the loss of jobs, or large financial losses, and even lead to you falling to acquire future projects. If you keep this in mind, it may just help stop you from delaying your tasks and duties the next time you have the urge to procrastinate.
You can try to set milestones for your work to ensure that things get done a bit at a time, rather than lumped up in one overwhelming shot all at once.
3. Enjoy Our Achievements
It feels great to achieve something and there is no reason not to break that feeling down in smaller ‘bites’. Create a list of things you should be doing, set deadlines for it and when you have done them, scratch them off the list. Now, doesn’t that feel good?
You can make use of productivity tools such as Remember the Milk, Any.do, Toodledo or a regular egg-timer and notepad to remember your deadlines. Over time, you will be able to learnhow to be more productive, work faster or work less for better results.
4. Deal With It When It’s Small
Many focus on bigger tasks and leave smaller tasks to be completed later, which leads to procrastination. These small tasks eventually pile up and don’t get completed on time. In essence, it’s these small things that could have been done and settled fast, usually on the spot right after the instructions are delivered.
But such tasks are sometimes overlooked, believed to be a small matter until it grows too big to be contained or to be completed in time. Don’t leave it unattended if you can, no matter how insignificant you think it is.
5. Do Not Work Until You Feel Exhausted
Human psychology suggests that if you are exhausted and don’t have anything pending in your head, then your mind tends to wander off course from the task at hand. In other words, you can get distracted very easily when you are tired.
Follow the signs you get from your body and start each new task afresh if possible. Taking a short break with non-taxing activities like reading the paper or listening to light music while sipping on some coffee can do wonders to revitalize your energy bar.
6. Use The Power Of Motivation
Often employees fail to remember the basis of their work, which could lead to procrastination. Your business has a role and your work has a purpose. Do you reinvent your personal goals with the task at hand? If you can do that then you are taking the right steps to strengthening yourself.
If you find it hard to get up in the morning to get to work, then something is wrong. If it is hard to even get started, procrastinating is the next stage. A lack of zeal at work may require some reflection on your part.
You may need to question your role in the organization, if you need some form of motivation as in a new role, a new project or a new manager (yikes!). Restructure your engagement and responsibilities at the job to avoid procrastination.
7. Shun Off Temptations
Temptations are real hindrances. It takes your attention away from work and everyone has their own private list of sinful temptations: the TV, a phone call, a game or a texting partner, Facebook (the usual suspect) etc. Identifying and keeping yourself away from them will help you to overcome procrastination on the job.
