Work From Home Jobs That Require No Past Experience
Today’s post will cover another really common question I get — work from home jobs that don’t require past experience to get started. I’ve broken the jobs down by category and listed the companies that, as far as I know, don’t require prior experience in order to consider your application.
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Keep in mind that “no past experience” doesn’t mean these jobs will necessarily be easy to get. Also, the fact you don’t need prior experience doesn’t mean you don’t need specific skills. So keep that in mind while you’re browsing the list.
To determine whether or not you have the skills they’re looking for, some companies listed below might test you. And even though you can apply without past experience doing the work, past experience will always give you a leg up on the competition.
I’ll do my best to keep this updated! Please comment below if you know if other companies that don’t require past experience.
Chat Jobs
Dealertrack – This company occasionally has openings for a “managed chatter.” They prefer experience, but will consider you and provide training if you don’t have it. This position is not always open.
FETCH – This company hires people to help others make shopping decisions.
Live Sales Staff – This company hires work from home chat agents. It doesn’t look like you need experience to be considered, but be warned that no one starts off here making much money, either.
SiteStaff – This company occasionally hires remote chat hosts. Their website says nothing about needing prior experience. I don’t think they always have openings, and it’s an independent contractor position.
Needle – You don’t need any past chat experience to get a chat job at Needle. However, they have many different brands you can chat for and they do prefer if you’ve had some experience with the brand you’re handling chats for.
Talk2Rep – There is no prior experience needed to become a chat agent for Talk2Rep, although any chat or sales experience you do have is considered a plus.
Data Entry
Great American Opportunities – Seasonal work from home data entry. No past data entry experience is needed. Skills test is required prior to being accepted. There is a long waiting list for this job.
Virtual Bee – You can get an account for doing data entry here if you can pass their skills test. This is absolutely just something to do for extra money here and there. They don’t pay much at all.
Sigtracker – Work from home updating voter registrations. Like Virtual Bee, this works out to be just extra money for most people. Also, this company only has work sporadically throughout the year.
Editing & Proofreading
It’s very hard to get editing work without past experience. I was only able to turn up a few companies below based on what’s on my website.
Pure Content – They will consider entry-level editors, but they don’t always have openings. Also, you might need to have some grasp of UK English to get in here. They do require a skills test.
Textbroker – They do give some of their writers the opportunity to take their proofreading test to begin proofreading articles. This is a very hard test to pass and I believe you have to be at least a level 4 writer there to even qualify to take it.
Domainite – If you do well enough on their editing test, Domainite may let you start working for them as an editor. The pay is .25 for every 100 words edited and they pay weekly with Paypal.
ESL Tutoring
Cambly – Anyone can sign up to tutor people in English or Spanish. There are no requirements other than being fluent in the language you’re going to teach there.
English Hunt – You don’t need prior ESL tutoring experience to teach for English Hunt. However, if you are applying to tutor via video, you must have either a teaching or substitute teaching certificate. You don’t need a teaching certificate of any kind for their phone tutoring programs.
iTalki – You don’t need any ESL tutoring experience to do get started on iTalki as a community tutor, but you will if you sign up to be a “professional teacher” there.
Language Development System – You can get started as an ESL tutor for Language Development System without prior experience in the industry (although prior experience is a plus), but you will need a college degree or at least be working on a college degree to be considered.
Academic Tutoring
Brainfuse – No past tutoring experience required, but they do require a four-year college degree to qualify to tutor for them.
EduWizards – No tutoring experience needed, but you must have a bachelor’s degree or higher to qualify.
Reasoning Mind – No experience needed, but you do have to either have or be working toward a college degree.
Tutor.com – Same as the ones above, no tutoring experience is needed but you’ll have to either have or be working toward a degree.
Test/Essay Scoring
Measurement, Inc. – You must have proof of a bachelor’s degree to qualify to become a reader/evaluator for essays. No prior scoring experience needed.
WriteScore – This is seasonal work from home essay scoring. You don’t need prior experience, but you do need to have at least a two-year college degree.
Customer Service
Most of the customer service positions are going to want you to have prior customer service and/or call center experience. Remember that even if you’ve done something outside the home involving customer service (cashiering, etc.) this can still count as past experience.
Also, many of these companies offer more than one work from home position, so the required experience might vary depending on what they have available.
1-800-Flowers – This company hires home-based customer service reps for help handling inquiries and flower orders during the busiest flower-ordering seasons. No prior call center experience is required, but it’s strongly preferred if you have it.
Accolade Support – No past customer service experienced needed to apply, but they do prefer if you have a certain skill set.
LiveOps – It’s possible to get hired here without any prior customer service experience. LiveOps is much more focused on your skill set rather than your past work experience.
Neiman-Marcus – Currently only available for people in the Dallas – Ft. Worth area of Texas. The position does appear to be entry-level because there are no requirements listed on their site. Training is provided and paid.
NexRep – This company is often hiring for a variety of different customer service and sales positions. There are no prior experience requirements listed on their website or on their application for employment.
Sitel – This virtual call center states on their careers page that prior customer service experience is preferred, but it doesn’t say required. So it may be a long shot, but you could give this one a try.
Sykes – Sykes/Alpine Access doesn’t list any past work requirements that I can see on their website, so you may be able to get a job here if you’ve never done customer service work.
U-Haul – This is another with “preferred” call center experience listed. You may still be able to get hired if you don’t have it.
Ver-a-Fast – You do not need prior experience in customer service or in a call center to work for Ver-a-Fast, but I’d recommend reading some of the reviews on this company before applying.
Working Solutions – This company does not list any prior call center or customer service experience on their jobs landing page, just some preferred skills they want you to have.
Telemarketing – Lead Generation
AdviseTech – Does not list any required experience for their part-time telemarketing jobs.
Windy City Call Center – They prefer outbound call center experience, but it’s not required. IL and IN residents only.
eDegree Advisor/Helios – Work from home telemarketing. No experience needed. Lots of people have had bad experiences with this company.
USA Contact Point – They have openings for work from home telemarketing. This is another one with less-than-stellar reviews from workers, but you don’t need experience to get started.
Misc. Phone Work
Active Network – They hire home-based workers to take sports reservation requests. Doesn’t look like you have to have prior experience.
Intellichek – Another phone mystery shopping job. No experience needed.
Ipsos At-Home Interviewers – OH and KY only. No past interviewing experience is listed on the application form.
Maritz – Another company hiring at-home interviewers. They don’t have past experience listed as one of their requirements.
NextWave Advocacy – Outbound political outreach calling (not sales). No prior experience required.
OnPoint Advocacy – Outbound calling for political outreach (not sales). No prior experience required.
ORC – Telephone research interviewing. Does not require past experience.
People Calling People – This is outbound political calling. This company usually has openings around election time. No experience required.
Perception Strategies – More telephone mystery shopping work, mainly to doctor’s offices and hospitals. No prior experience required.
Pierce-Eislen – Calling apartment complexes conducting rent surveys. They have a test you must take, but if you can pass, you can get started. Seasonal work.
Pleio/Goodstart – Helping people with medication reminders. They will consider people with no past customer service experience although they do prefer if you have it.
Vocalabs – Hires remote survey administrators. No past experience needed.
Voter Research – Conducting political surveys from home. They don’t always have a need for workers and they only have projects occasionally throughout the year.
Westat – They occasionally hire for work from home data collection. Past experience isn’t necessary, they will train you to do the job if they decide to hire you.
Search Engine Evaluation
These jobs can pay well and generally don’t require past experience doing the work. You will have to take a test to prove your skills. Some of the companies will say on their requirements that you need a college degree, but many people do end up getting hired without that.
Leapforce – Very flexible, you can work anytime if they have work up for you to do. Pays around $13.50 hourly.
Lionbridge – They have lots of little jobs you can do here apart from just search engine evaluation. As with most of these companies, this is flexible work you can do on your own schedule.
ZeroChaos -Must commit to working at least 10 hours per week, but no more than 30.
iSoftStone – Monthly pay rumored to be around $12 hourly.
Appen ButlerHill – Flexible schedule, most commit to work at least four hours a day. Other crowdsourced task work may be available in addition to search evaluation.
Transcription
There are many general transcription companies that will give you a shot at a job without prior transcription experience, but you will most likely have to take a transcription and/or typing test to prove your skills.
Translation
Gengo – This is a big pool of freelance translators. You will need to take a test to get listed here to be eligible to take work, but it doesn’t look like you have to have past experience.
Language Line – They are frequently hiring work from home interpreters for various languages. You have to have some pretty specific skills, but it doesn’t look like you have to be an experienced interpreter to qualify.
Translators Town – Another work platform for freelance translators. You may be able to land some translation jobs as long as you are fluent in your language, though experience would probably help you get higher-paying work.
VerbalizIt – They hire people to do translations/transcriptions and they are open worldwide. You don’t need experience, but you will have to pass a difficult skills test prior to accepting any work.
Virtual Assisting
Most companies that hire many virtual assistants are more interested in your skill set rather than whether or not you’ve worked as a VA before. This is because virtual assistants almost always have varied skills and responsibilities just depending on who their clients are and what they specialize in.
Moderation
BabyCenter – This company occasionally hire work at home community moderators for their parenting forum. The job description never says anything about past moderation experience, although there are other skills listed.
ICUC – They provide training for candidates without moderation experience. However, they focus on hiring bi- or multi-lingual candidates.
LiveWorld – It may be possible to get in here without past moderation experience, although they do prefer if you have it.
Metaverse – There are several people who have applied here without moderation experience and managed to get in, so it’s worth a shot.
Writing
Writing is one of the easiest work from home industries to break into because fortunately most of the places you can write for tend to be more interested in how well you can write rather than how many other writing jobs you’ve had.
You can try your luck at any of the sites listed here, but below I’ve made a short list of some of the companies that aren’t that stringent in their requirements if you are very much an entry-level freelance writer. They are mostly content sites/mills and while they don’t pay a lot, they are good for paid practice.
Article Document – They claim to have lots of assignments across a wide variety of categories. The last I was aware, they pay monthly.
BlogMutt – Write blog posts for BlogMutt’s clients. If the client likes your work, you get paid. This is ghostwriting, so I don’t believe you get credit for your work.
Break Studios – I never hear anything about this site anymore, so I’m not sure if they still have assignments. May be worth applying to see what happens.
BKA – Buy Keyword Articles – This is SEO-focused content. They pay every two weeks via Paypal. The application process involves a short quiz covering your grammar/punctuation, etc.
Content Divas – If you can impress them enough with a writing sample, you may be able to get taken on as a writer for this company.
Crowd Content – Pays twice monthly. They aren’t always open to registration.
Demand Media – I got in here when I had no past freelance writing experience, and so have many others. They pay a little better than many of the other popular content sites.
Domainite – You must submit a writing sample to get approved to write here.
Ezdia – Like most of the other freelance writing content sites, they require a writing sample.
Internet Brands – This is a big company that manages the content for several major companies. They do require a writing sample.
Textbroker – I have lots of experience with this site and I’ve always thought they were great, although there are some who would probably disagree. You can get in here with very little writing experience. You have to write a short sample and your writing level (and the amount of money you can earn per article) will be based on that initial sample. It is possible to get moved up once you’ve proven your skills even if you start off at a low level.
Wordgigs – This company has writing assignments available regularly. You do have to take a quiz on spelling and grammar at about high school level in order to be accepted to write for them.
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