Here is list of work from home jobs from companies that hire internationally.
Google is employing home-based quality raters of ads from all over the world through a temp agency.
Ads quality raters must have a college degree.
However, be careful of some scams that dupe people into thinking that the home-based work being offered is for Google.
DellThis computer manufacturer offers plenty of home-based jobs. You can search for these work-from-home opportunities of Dell by using the word “remote” when searching on the site.
VIPdeskVIPdesk employs workers from home as agents handling customer concerns through phone, email and chat.
These agents answer inquiries, issues and conducts research for clients who are from Canada, the United Kingdom and United States and Singapore. But the majority of the jobs are from the US and hence they look to hire employees with high fluency in the English language.
Those who are also fluent in French, German, Spanish or Italian are also desired.
AccuTran GlobalThis firm wants part-time workers who can either be typists or transcribers of meetings, conference calls, and interviews for financial establishments.
AccuTran Global hires employees based in UK, Canada and the US. This firm pays these contractors anywhere from $0.005 to $0.0066 per word.
VirtualBeeThis firm offers data entry jobs and is in search of “keyers” who are required to enter encoded data so that they will come out as nonsensical.
Applicants must take an evaluation before working for the firm.
The company places applicants who scored high in the evaluation on a waiting list and reach out to the applicants once there is work ready.
The payout rates are different but would range from 40-55 cents per 1000 keystrokes. Employees must have accumulated at least $50 before they can get their payments.
Amazon’s Mechanical TurkAmazon’s Mturk is one of the first small job sites and provides lists of HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks.
Employees can select and finish the HITs for a fixed price. The completion of tasks under HITS would usually earn someone a couple of cents or dollars.
You can get paid in US dollars, Indian rupees or Amazon gift certificates, depending largely on your current location.
1-800-TranslateThis firm has openings for translators, as well as on-site interpreters. Applicants must have finished college.
About.comAbout.com provides online content such as articles and videos, to name a few on a wide range of topics and is in the lookout for guides, topic writers and video producers.
The pay differs for each job post, but pay is determined by the increase in the number of page views.
CCI Call Center InternationalThis international call center is in need of independent contractors who can work from home and can speak different languages.
Aim-for-A TutoringThis firm needs online tutors who can teach science, math and English to students coming from different countries.
Aim-for-A Tutoring requires that applicants have teaching experience and have completed college.
Appen Butler HillThis firm needs home-based translators, interpreters and search evaluators to join their team.
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)ADP provides a wide range of business processing services worldwide. These business processes include administration of benefits, time and attendance tracking of employees, automotive dealership, talent management and human resource management, among others.
One can find many work-from-home opportunities at this firm by looking at the firm’s database and selecting “home office” option when asked for the location
Classof1This international firm provides online tutoring services such as helping in the completion of assignments, preparations for exams, as well as development of content and e-learning courses.
Classof1 is based in India and offers its services to K-12 students based in U.K., U.S. and Australia.
BrainMassBrainMass wants online teaching assistants who will answer inquiries from students to join their team. This firm wants to employ those who have a master’s degree or Ph.D. and these teaching assistants will get a percentage of the payments made by the pupils.
BrainMass pays their online teaching assistants in dollars.
CovanceCovance is a global company that is into biopharmaceutical contract research that operates in more than 25 countries.
This firm has more than 10,000 employees around the globe and in search for home-based clinical research associates who can also travel around 65% of the time in certain areas like Canada, US and Europe.
Salesforce.comSalesforce.com as a customer relationship management (CRM) software firm focuses on social, mobile, and cloud technologies. It has job opening for different for some of its departments.
Salesforce has telecommuting posts for employees based in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe.
Demand StudiosThis company produces content for various websites such as LIVESTRONG.COM, eHow.com, among others. Demand studios is in search of employees who can write, edit and who have film making skills.
This firm pays either in flat-rate or revenue sharing schemes.
Families.comThis firm hires bloggers who are familiar with the cultures of US, Australia, UK and Canada. Bloggers are paid $4 for every blog of 300 words.
ClickworkerClickworker is a global crowdsourcing firm that employs independent contractors for a variety of services such as writing, researching, translating and entering of data. Contractors get paid per piece.
Contractors must first register and undergo an assessment before they can start taking on some work.
Herzing University OnlineHerzing University Online is a private college based in Wisconsin. Many of the work-from-home positions that can be found in the online division offering online courses are extra online faculty jobs.
There are also other openings that are home-based or virtual but may oblige someone to spend time at the local office, as well.
WordExpressWordExpress takes in freelance translators from different parts of the world since the firm translates materials in more than 100 different languages.
The firm is also in need of interpreters, desktop publishers, voice talent and sales managers and reps.
EduwizardSEduwizard is an online marketplace that lists online freelance tutors for a fee. Online tutors who wish to be included in the firm’s listing can set their own rates for tutoring services but will need to shell out money to be part of the list of EduWizards.
SDLSDL is an internal information management firm that is in need of freelance translators who already have at least two years work experience as a freelance translator.
Applicants with at least one year of in-house translation experience are also welcomed.
Tutorvista.comThe online tutors of Tutorvista.com are highly experienced teachers who boast of graduate degrees and are mostly based outside the United States.
Laureate Education, Inc.Laureate Education, Inc. develops online education courses for Walden University, Kendall College, New School of Architecture & Design and College of Santa Fe.
The Laureate Higher Education Group employs people from different parts of the world but the majority of the jobs require that applicants have finished their master’s degree at the very least.
Job seekers may find jobs by choosing “virtual” when asked for job location when searching in its website.
Working SolutionsWorking Solutions is a BPO firm that hires work-from-home freelancers that will do call center online work and data entry jobs.
The company pays around $7.50 to $30 per hour and employs people from all states within the United States, as well as employees from different parts of the globe. But Working Solutions limits the number of employees located outside the US for their call center jobs.
This BPO Company also employs agents who can speak bilingually in more than 30 languages.
OckhamThis global firm provides services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms and are in search of telecommuting employees who are skilled in research, IT and project management, among others.
PPDPPD offers services to the healthcare industry such as drug discovery, development and lifecycle management services given that the firm is a global contract research organization (CRO).
The firm has openings for home-based posts for medical writers and clinical research associates (CRA).
Quicktate or iDictateThis firm provides transcription services and are in the lookout for home-based transcribers of short audio files such as voice mails, dictated notes just to name a few.
Work from home transcribers of Quicktate are paid $.0025USD for every word. Medical transcription workers of and iDictate and Quicktates are paid $.0050USD per word through PayPal.
Transcribers of Quicktate who are highly skilled can get work from iDictate.
iDictate has a broader range and longer documents that need to be transcribed. The firm is in need of bilingual transcribers who are fluent in English and Spanish but are also in the lookout for transcribers who can transcribe in other languages such as French, Italian, German, Chinese, Farsi, Portuguese and Japanese.
TeleTech@HomeTeletech is a big international business process outsourcing (BPO) company. It employs part-time workers for home based assignments as call center representatives in the UK and US.
Teletech@Home also wants bilingual agents to join their team.
WorldLingoWorldLingo hires home based freelancers from all over the world for a variety of jobs such as proofreaders, editors, journalists, desktop publishers, interpreters and voice-over talents.
Take note that there are many freelancers who are capable of doing various tasks depending on their skills have found other platforms to sell their services to clients from different parts of the world. Those who do not have a PayPal account can even take on jobs from clients abroad since there are platforms that facilitate the selling and buying of the services of freelancers.
One good example is Elance where a contractor can get paid through its Elance Global Payments services.
LionbridgeThis firm wants translators and interpreters from different parts of the world who are home-based.
University students are also welcome to apply. Plus, it also hires English-only and bilingual posts for Internet assessors. Internet assessors are the equivalent of the ad quality rater jobs offered by Google.
Smarthinking.comSMARTHINKING.com offers tutoring services for students of different ages and learning capacities. The firm is looking for tutors who can work virtually and has a US bank account.
SMARTHINKING.com hires during May to August and November to December.
The firm accepts undergraduate and graduate students, experienced tutors and high school instructors.
Sun MicrosystemsThe firm is in need of work from home support engineers who are skilled based in the US and other countries, as well.
UniversalClassThis firm offers continuing educations courses online for libraries and schools, among others.
UniversalClass have instructional writers for their offered courses who get paid $.04-$.07 for each word.
UniversalClass only accepts online instructors who are certified, have college degrees and have at least four years of experience.
Virtual UniversityVirtual University pays $200 as honorarium for those who write their online courses.
Take Away
As you can see, there are a lot of companies that do offer international work at home jobs. Be sure to bookmark this page as I will update the list if and when I find other companies that do hire at home workers globally.