Tuesday 24 November 2020

YOU DON’T NEED TO BE UNEMPLOYED

10 Online Jobs for Students that You Can Turn into a Career or a Business from Home



Online jobs for students can be lucrative, pay well, and set you on a successful career path… if you choose them well & you’re willing to do the work.

We live in a wonderful time, where you can get an accredited university degree from home, and make a living from home. Finding a job you can do online, will give you great flexibility, so if you’re up for the challenge, we have created this list of jobs where you can work remotely:

 

Great Online Jobs For Students That Can Get Your Professional Life Started

The following online jobs are not always easy to get, but once you find your way, you’ll be able to build long-term skills, that you can turn into a career or a business.

 

 

1. Online Tutor

 

If you’re doing well in college, it’s easy to think everyone else is too, but the truth is that many people struggle with passing their courses. You could make a living by helping them out and teaching them what you know.

 

But don’t stop with fellow college students. You can also teach kids – from elementary school to high school, there are plenty of kids who could use your help.

 

Thankfully, with the Internet, you don’t have to be limited to your local geographic area. You can teach kids and people from all over the world.

·         Average US salary: $13-20/hour.

·         Where to find work: Tutor.com and Wyzant.

 

2. Search Engine Evaluator

 

Search engines like Google and Bing rely on user feedback to update their algorithms in ways that serve people better.

 

You could be one of the people who fills out feedback forms and lets them know what they need to do in order to improve.

·         Average US salary: $12-15/hour.

·         Where to find work: Leapforce and Lionbridge.

 

3. Social Media Manager

 

We all spend a lot of time on social media every day – Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and the list goes on. If you’re used to getting a lot of likes or comments, or if you’re great at motivating others through your posts, you might want to consider turning this into a profession.

 

Social media managers build communities for companies on social media, engage these communities in conversations (for example, getting a lot of comments), and encourage them to take some sort of an action (like reading a blog post, signing up to an email list, or buying a product). Social media managers also play a vital role in building brand awareness for a company.

·         Average US Salary: $62,000/year for employees, according to Indeed. If you’re a freelancer, it depends on your marketing and negotiation skills.

·         Where to find work: The best opportunities in this field come from networking and pitching companies directly. To get started, try Googling marketing agencies and see if they need help handling the clients they’ve already landed.

 

4. Freelance Writer

 

Social media managers promote content that builds relationships and promotes sales for companies. Freelance writers write the content. There’s a huge need for writers now, as more and more companies want to build long term trust with their target audiences, and they do that by providing top quality content.

 

Great freelance writers stay up to date on marketing trends and research and know which content types work best when. They’re not only skilled at conveying complicated ideas, but they know how to do it in a way that best converts in a particular content format.

 

Well-fed freelance writers stay out of “content farms” and bidding sites, where you compete with hundreds of other writers for the same projects and get the gig if you under-quote yourself enough. To be a well-fed freelance writer, you need to go out there and market yourself to your target audience – usually, marketing managers – like any other business owner.

·         Average US Salary: $61,000/year for employees, according to Indeed. If you’re a freelancer, it depends on your marketing and negotiation skills.

·         Where to find work: The best opportunities in this field come when you network and proactively pitch to companies, but the Freelance Writers’ Den, a $25/month membership site, is a great place to start if you’re looking for high paying projects.

 

5. Resume Writer

 

Writing resumes may seem simple, but most people often find it hard to talk themselves up. If you’ve had success getting a lot of interest from great companies based on your resume, offer your services to others.

 

You can help them ensure their resumes shine a light on their accomplishments and the value they have to provide companies, in a way that speaks to recruiters.

 

Similarly, you can offer LinkedIn profile writing services, as many recruiters look for potential employees on this professional social network.

·         Average US salary: $15-25/hour.

·         Where to find work: ResumeEdge.

 

6. Transcriptionist

 

Transcriptionists are required to listen to audio recordings, and write them down. The key here is to be extremely accurate, so you need to have great attention to details.

 

This job also requires you to type fast. It works in your favor: The faster you type, the more you earn per hour.

·         Average US salary: $15-25/hour.

·         Where to find work: TranscribeMe and Rev.

 

7. Freelance Web Designer

 

Like freelance writers, freelance web designers need to market their services if they want to make a sustainable living. Websites that supposedly do the marketing work for you often come with a high price, as you’ll be expected to work for very cheap, and might end up losing money on the deals you take on.

 

To stand out of the crowd when they market themselves directly to prospective customers, freelance web designers need to prove more than their ability to design beautiful websites.

 

While companies care about image, they often care more about results. Therefore, well-fed freelance web designers are often the ones who understand what works in user experience and CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization). They learn how to create websites that drive visitors to download something or buy a product.

·         Average US Salary: $61,000/year for employees, according to Indeed. If you’re a freelancer, it depends on your marketing and negotiation skills.

·         Where to find work: The best opportunities in this field come from networking and pitching to companies directly. To get started, try Googling marketing agencies and see if they need help handling the clients they’ve already landed.

8. Micro-Freelancing At Fiverr

 

Fiverr is the world’s largest marketplace for digital services, where you can offer almost anything, from graphics & design, digital marketing, writing & translation, video & animation, music & audio, programming & tech, advertising, business, fun & lifestyle. This is the place to make money out of your creativity and profession.

·         Average US salary: Starting at $5/gig.

·         Where to find work: Fiverr.com.

 

9. Virtual Recruiter

 

Recruiters post jobs online and look for potential employees on LinkedIn. They read LinkedIn profiles they find and resumes that get sent to them, and decide who could be a good candidate.

 

They often conduct the initial phone interview, then pass the best ones to the relevant manager at the company to continue the screening process.

 

Recruiters used to only work offline, but things have changed, and now you can do this job from home.

·         Average US salary: $20-30/hour.

·         Where to find work: SimplyHired and CareerBuilder.

 

10. Become An Online Influencer

 

Do you have a hobby, a passion, or an interesting life? Are you knowledgeable about something many people struggle with?

 

If so, you might want to start a blog, a podcast, a vlog, or be active on one of the major social media networks. Sometimes it could take years to build a big enough, engaged enough, audience, but if you’re already used to sharing with people online, and have an audience that trusts you, it might be worth treating it as a business.

 

As your audience grows, you’ll be able to sell them services (like coaching or consulting) and products, but you’ll also be able to make a living by recommending other people’s products – and getting sponsorship or a commission in return.

·         Average US Salary: It changes from one person to another. According to this guide, you can charge $5-10 to post something on Instagram for every 1,000 followers you have. In other words, if you have 30,000 followers, you can charge $150-300 for every sponsored post you publish.

·         Where to find work: There are a lot of ways to connect with brands once you’ve built an audience. For example, if you already have a large following, you could apply to join influencer talent and marketing agencies, like Viral Nation, or platforms like Whalar, who connect Instagram influencers with relevant brands.

 

 

Coronavirus Pandemic: A New Opportunity

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, companies have moved their daily work to online. However, there are still many businesses that have closed and thousands of workers that have lost their jobs. This is the sad truth of 2020. However, if you have a computer and an internet connection, there are endless new opportunities that you may not even know about! Countless individuals have taken to the online world in search of their next career.

 

While stuck at home during the pandemic, you can start working a remote job from the comfort of your own home. Here are 5 examples to get you inspired:

1.   Teach English: VIPKidQkids and Magic Ears all recruit native English speakers to teach online English classes to young kids in China. If you already have a degree in teaching, UoPeople offers a Masters of Education degree to help you propel your career in this field.

2.   Edit Content: If you have experience in quality analysis and checking for content errors, Reedsy is always looking for talented individuals for editing written works.

3.   Virtual Assistant: If you are an organized and motivated individual, try finding an online assistant job. Through Boldly or Belay, you can start doing pretty much anything from scheduling meetings and conferences to social media and website work.

4.   Professional Services: If you’re more acclimated to the professional side of things, then take a look at sites like FreeUpSkipTheDriveRemote and Working Not Working. There you’ll be able to find content, web development, marketing, design and other jobs.

 

Additionally, many other companies are searching for workers. According to FlexJobs, these companies are posting job listings for online positions:

·         Adobe

·         Aetna

·         Amazon

·         Citizens Bank

·         Crowdstrike

·         Dell

·         GitHub

·         HealthlineMedia

·         ICF

·         Philips

·         Salesforce

·         Upwork

·         Pegasystems

·         Okta

·         LanguageLine Solutions

Whatever career path you decide to choose, ensure that your CV and cover letter is tailored to each specific application. Additionally, be sure to highlight your skills that would make for a successful remote employee (such as independence, time management, responsibility, and communication).

 

To advance your job opportunities further, you can also use your time at home to study a tuition-free degree with UoPeople. Check out our online degree programs and see what interests you.

 

 

Now More Than Ever: Online Jobs For Students Are Everywhere

As far as “work from home” jobs are concerned, we live in the best time there ever was. More and more companies allow people to work from home if the only tools these employees need are a computer and an Internet connection.

 

The careers above are just a few great examples. People also work from home as virtual assistants, translators, data entry professionals, customer service representatives and salespeople.

 

If your job can be done on a computer and you want to work from home, don’t be shy. Ask your employer if it’s possible, even part-time.

 

Sunday 1 November 2020

Best Arts Competition Hits Lagos, Lifts Young Nigerian Artists






Written by Yemi Olakitan

Recently, the Nike Arts Gallery, Lekki, Lagos attracted a host of art enthusiasts and aficionados who came for the grand finale of the Best Art Exhibition. It was organised by Nigerbev Limited, in collaboration with Nike Art Gallery and the aim was to showcase the works of upcoming artists who had participated in the art campaign.

The exhibited artworks, no doubts, revealed how talented and creative, the younger generation of Nigerian artists are.  Throughout August named ‘BEST Art Month,’ the organisers launched an open call for entries online, requesting artists to post their works on the social media with the hashtag ‘BEST.’

As a result, the jury received 1442 submissions and out of this 111 were drawn from Facebook while 1331 were selected from Instagram. The works were assessed on their conformity with the criteria, which include form and content, originality, creativity, use of material (media) as well as resonance with the brand’s association with the subject matter of celebration.The company anticipated only 50 entries when the art campaign was initiated but that month, over a thousand entries were submitted. The BEST Art Campaign is a part of the company’s corporate social responsibility.

Chaired by the renowned textile artist and painter, Chief (Mrs) Nike Okundaye, the panel of judges includes, Dr. Bolaji Ogunwo, Mr Abiodun Badejo, and Mr Felix Aina.Initially, 147 works were selected through a very rigorous exercise. This was further pruned to 80 works and then a long list of 20 emerged. Ten artists were selected for the finals.


Mrs. Ololade Olumuyiwa-Biala, Head of Marketing at Nigerbev Nig. Ltd. told The Guardian, “we believe in self-expression and the ability of matured minds to come together and have fun. The art campaign idea came as a result of the upheaval being experienced in the country from COVID-19 lockdown to businesses shutting down, which created a cloud of gloom. The company decided to do something that would endear the people and bring life.“We wanted to promote the best of Nigerian arts by using our brands of beverages as the rallying point. True to the saying, art is life; we discovered a lot of potential in Nigerian arts. We are doing this, not just as social responsibility but also, as a way of connecting with young Nigerians, who incidentally, are our target audience.”


According to the lady, “we started by announcing the competition on social media and we received more than 147 entries with very impressive works of arts. We put together a panel of judges, which went through the works and shortlisted 10 finalists that brought us to where we are today.”


Why Art?
“Arts, especially in the context of Nigeria, is always a medium of communication and expression. While always aesthetically pleasing, attention eliciting, something found to be a denominator for many artists and creatives is social consciousness and how that translates very often in the creation of thought-provoking pieces, which will elicit a range of emotions among the collectors and art audiences. You’ll see from the pieces on display… depiction of emotions lived realities showing resilience, survival, and expressions of social consciousness. Particularly, in 2020, which has been a very challenging year for the world, expression through arts is one of the ways the creative community is able to communicate and document for posterity, the survival mode we all went into automatically,” the Nigerbev boss said.

Dele Akinlade, Sales and Marketing Manager for the company, said, “arts and marketing buy into our emotion so it was normal to bring the two together. This, in turn, promotes tourism and contributes to the development of the arts. What happens here today as shown to many that the Nigerian arts sector is very vibrant and creative. This is because it is filled with the very young and energetic segment of the Nigerian population and they are our target audience.”

Adewale Ojo, whose piece, Celebration, took the first position, got N500,000 for his effort. His work captures two ladies having fun in rainbow colours as a celebration of life using acrylic on canvas.

According to Ojo, he wanted to do something that will portray the brand as a beverage of the first choice.While urging the organisers to continue with the project, as it will encourage Nigerian artists to work harder, he said, “this is a tremendous encouragement to the young generation of Nigerian artists.’’

Omoniyi Gabriel, who placed second with a painting titled, Pure Bliss. The work is a visual play on shades and rendered in acrylic on paper

Beaming with smiles, he said the competition is a huge inspiration and encouragement to Nigerian artists.

On the inspiration behind the work, Gabriel said, “I wanted to depict excitement, joy, or happiness.”

Miss Onyinye Ezennia, popularly known as Zennia, in the Nigerian arts sector, came to the third position with a cash prize of N100,000. Her artwork was titled, Suffering and Smiling.

Onyinye, an experimental artist, in the piece, made use of nails and colourful threads. The socially conscious artist, whose works often focus on contemporary issues revolving around women and children, requested that organisers come up with similar projects in the future.

“If we have many companies supporting arts, the arts community will continue to grow and grow. Young artists will be positively engaged and busy. The reason why we have so much juvenile delinquency is that young people are idle. If more and more corporate entities organise meaningful programs such as this, young Nigerians will be too positively engaged and too busy to be lured into crimes and other social vices.so I want to urge them to continue,” Okundaye said.






Monday 28 September 2020

Mali coup: Bah Ndaw sworn in as civilian leader

 



Mali's new president has been sworn into office, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaw, 70, was picked by the coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, to head a transitional government until elections, which are expected in 18 months.
Col Goita is vice-president.
The appointment of a civilian president was a condition for the West African regional group, Ecowas, to lift the sanctions it imposed after the coup.
Stocks of goods are running low in the Malian capital, Bamako.
But after Mr Ndaw's inauguration, Ecowas officials said they would only lift the embargo after a civilian prime minister was also appointed.
BBC News

Nigeria Labour Unions Called off Strike, Electricity Tariffs Hike Suspended

 



Labour Unions in Nigeria have suspended their planned nationwide strike that was to begin on Monday, Labour Minister Festus Keyamo has said on Twitter.

The suspension follows overnight talks between the government and the unions.

The strike was to protest against the recent doubling of electricity bills, an increase in petrol price and high cost of living in the country, the BBC's Ishaq Khalid reports.

The government had said the measures were needed to shore up the economy which has been badly affected by the fall in global oil prices due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The minister said the electricity tariffs will now be suspended for two weeks and a committee formed to "examine the justification for the new policy".

BBC NEWS

Tuesday 28 July 2020

US-based Nigerian doctor says COVID 19 has a cure






A US-based Nigerian doctor, Dr. Stella Emmanuel, has alleged there is a conspiracy of a group of pharmaceutical practitioners on COVID-19.

The radiologist, who said she has singlehandedly treated over 350 COVID-19, with no record of death, most of them elderly with underlying ailments, said she has been getting death threats and ran to the white House to expose the conspiracy.

She claimed COVID-19 has a cure and there is no need to wear a mask or create social distance.

Fearing for her life, she made a recorded speech to tell the world that there is nothing to fear.

According to her: “I’m Dr Stella Emmanuel I’m a primary care physician in Houston Texas.

“I actually went to medical school in West Africa, Nigeria, where I took care of malaria patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and stuff like that so I’m actually used to these medications

“I’m here because I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID, patients that have diabetes patients that have high blood pressure patients that have asthma or people at my oldest person is 92, 87-year-olds and the result has been the same.

” I put them on hydroxychloroquine, I put them on zinc, I put them on Zithromax and they are all well; for the past few months I’ve taken care of over 350 patients.

“I have not lost one patient and on top of that I’ve put myself my staff and many doctors that I know on same drug for prevention.

“We see 10 to 15 COVID-19 patients every day. We give them breathing treatments, we only wear surgical mask.

“None of us has gotten sick, it works, so right now and I came here to Washington DC to say America nobody needs to die with this study that made me start using hydroxychloroquine.”

She said even research has shown that hiccup is a sympton of COVID-19 and is treated also with hydroxychloroquine.

“They definitely know that hydroxycholoquine is working. I’m upset, why I’m upset is that I see people that cannot breathe walk-in.

” I see diabetics sitting in my office knowing that this is a death sentence and they can breathe and I hold them and I tell them it’s going to be okay you’re going to leave and we treat them and they leave.

“No one has died. So if some fake science, some persons sponsored by all these fake Pharma companies come out to say it doesn’t work, I can tell you categorically is fake science.

“I want to know who is behind it because there is no way I can treat 350 patients and counting and nobody is dead.

“So I came here to Washington DC to tell America nobody needs to get sick. This virus has a cure it is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc and zithromax.

” I don’t even want to talk about mask… hello you don’t need mask. I know they don’t want to open schools now, but you don’t need these people to be locked down.

“There is prevention and there is a cure and let me tell you something all you fake doctors out there, that tell me this is a double-blinded study.

“You want a double-blinded study when people are dying it’s unethical.”

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