63 Jobs That Require No Experience & Let You Work at Home!

Today's post will cover another really common question I get — work from home jobs that require no 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.

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 work experience doesn't mean the companies listed won't require you to have specific skills.

There is a distinct difference between having a certain skill and having past work experience with something. So keep that in mind while you're browsing the list. Some of the options on the list will mention skills needed. 

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.

63 Jobs That Require No Experience

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.

Textbroker – Read Textbroker Review – 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.

Proofreading Services – Read Proofreading Services Review – This company doesn't have any experience requirements on their hiring page.

However, you do have to take a test to prove that you'd make a good proofreader before they will hire you. The hiring page they will hire people with the right skills. Doesn't say anything about past experience.

You could also start a proofreading side hustle with no past experience — taking on private clients and charging whatever you wish. Go here to check out a free webinar from Caitlin Pyle of Proofread Anywhere for some information on going this route.

Misc. Work

Shipt – Read Shipt Review – Get paid to be a personal grocery shopper. You take orders whenever you want via the Shipt app, go get the supplies needed by the client, and then get paid weekly. You do not need any personal shopping experience to qualify.

Instacart – Read Instacart Review – This company offers a personal shopping service similar to Shipt (above). This is flexible work. The work involves picking up orders, getting the items from the store, and then delivering them to people who have orders in.

Chat Jobs

The Chat Shop – Read The Chat Shop Review – This company hires work from home chat agents. It doesn't look like you need experience to be considered, but there is a list of skills which include native-level English fluency and a 65+ WPM typing speed.

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.

When you're on their site, a chat box will appear asking if you have questions. Don't use this box to ask about employment because you will get a canned response explaining they don't answer questions about jobs on their live chat.

Data Entry

The Smart Crowd – Read The Smart Crowd Review – 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.

Dion Data – Read Dion Data Review – You can work at home doing data entry for Dion Data, a company that has been around for  a long time.

They say on their hiring page they provide the training you would need. Unfortunately, this job is not open very often but do keep tabs on the hiring page.

See more data entry jobs from home requiring little to no experience.

ESL Tutoring

Cambly – Read Cambly Review – 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. We list Cambly frequently in our twice-weekly work at home job lead email updates because they are flexible and easy to qualify for.

QKIDS – Read QKIDS Review – To become an ESL tutor to Chinese children for QKIDS, you need either a a university degree or proof of active enrollment in a university. You must also be a native English speaker.

QKIDS pays $16 to $20 hourly, making it one of those rare high paying jobs with no experience required.

English Hunt – Read English Hunt Review – 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 – Read iTalki Review – 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.

NiceTalk – Read NiceTalk Review – There are no educational prerequisites, and the tutoring sessions are basically just informal conversations. You'll earn $10 hourly paid with Paypal.

See more ways to get paid to teach English online.

Academic Tutoring

Brainfuse – Read Brainfuse Review – No past tutoring experience required, but they do require a four-year college degree to qualify to tutor for them.

Tutor.com – Read Tutor.com Review – This is an entry level work from home job, no tutoring experience is needed. But you'll have to either have, or be working toward, a degree to qualify.

Studypool – Read Studypool Review – This is an online platform for homework help. As a Studypool tutor, you're paid to provide homework help to students who need it.

See more online tutoring jobs.

Test/Essay Scoring

Measurement, Inc. – Read Measurement, Inc. Review – You must have a 4-year college degree (of any kind) to qualify to become a reader/evaluator for essays. No prior scoring experience needed.

WriteScore – Read WriteScore Review – 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.

Accolade Support – Read Accolade Support Review – No past customer service experienced needed to apply, but they do prefer if you have a certain skill set.

LiveOps – Read LiveOps Review – 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.

NexRep – Read NexRep Review – 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 -Read Sitel Review – 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 – Read Sykes Review – 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 – Read U-Haul Work From Home Review – This is another with “preferred” call center experience listed. You may still be able to get hired if you don't have it.

Working Solutions – Read Working Solutions Review – 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. FL, GA, LA, and TN only.

Misc. Phone Work

Aspira – Read Aspira Review – They hire home-based workers to take sports reservation requests. Doesn't look like you have to have prior experience.

Intellichek – Read Intellichek Review – Phone mystery shopping. A “no experience needed” job.

MaritzCX – Read MaritzCX Review – Another company hiring at-home interviewers. They don't have past experience listed as one of their requirements.

NextWave Advocacy – Read NextWave Review – Outbound political outreach calling (not sales). No prior experience required. Pay $12 hourly.

OnPoint Advocacy – Read OnPoint Review – Outbound calling for political outreach (not sales). No prior experience required.

Perception Strategies – Read Perception Strategies Review – More telephone mystery shopping work, mainly to doctor's offices and hospitals. No prior experience required.

VoiceLog – Read VoiceLog Review – Work at home as a live operator for VoiceLog. Independent contractor position with no selling. The requirements state you do need experience, but then their FAQ says you don't.

Yardi-Matrix – Read Yardi-Matrix Review – 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 – Read Pleio Goodstart Review – Helping people with medication reminders. They will consider people with no past customer service experience although they do prefer if you have it.

Westat – Read Westat Review – 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.

Choose the “Telephone Data Collection” option under the “Career Area” dropdown to see if they have openings for this. You'll have to scroll down through the options to see it — it is the last one listed under “Career Area”

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.

Lionbridge – Read Lionbridge Review – 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.

iSoftStone – Read iSoftStone Review – Monthly pay rumored to be around $12 hourly.

Appen – Read Appen Review – 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 are no experience needed jobs, but you will most likely have to take a transcription and/or typing test to prove your skills.

TranscribeMe – Read TranscribeMe Review – Very low pay at $20 per audio hour, but you can qualify for a higher rate if you have medical or legal transcription experience. You can work whenever you want and they pay via Paypal.

TranscribeMe is also one of many jobs that pay weekly you can do online.

Rev – Read Rev Review – Work whenever you want doing transcription even if you don't have experience. They pay weekly via Paypal. As is the case with most transcription companies that accept beginners, pay is on the low side.

Tigerfish – Read Tigerfish Review – This company has been around for a long time and will consider beginners for work. However, a transcription skills test is required prior to acceptance (most companies make you do a skills test).

Quicktate – Read Quicktate Review – Quicktate has long been known for hiring transcription beginners. Pay isn't fantastic, but if you can pass their transcription test, you can start working.

I have listed many other transcription jobs for beginners if you want to check those out.

Translation

Gengo – Read Gengo Review – 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 – Read Language Line Review – 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.

VerbalizIt – Read VerbalizIt Review – 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.

I have created a list of virtual assistant jobs to get you started. You'll have to choose which ones to apply with just depending on what you're good at and what skills the company is looking for.

A few of the more popular work at home virtual assistant companies that will consider beginners includes:

• Fancy Hands
• Time Etc.
• 99 Dollar Social (social media work)

Are you more entrepreneur-minded? If you would prefer to start your own virtual assisting business (ultimately the most lucrative route) rather than work for a company, I've posted an interview with someone who has successfully started a virtual assistant business.

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 – Read ICUC Review – They provide training for candidates without moderation experience. However, they focus on hiring bi- or multi-lingual candidates.

LiveWorld – Read LiveWorld Review – It may be possible to get in here without past moderation experience, although they do prefer if you have it.

Metaverse – Read Metaverse Review – There are several people who have applied here without moderation experience and managed to get in, so it's worth a shot.

Crisp Thinking – Read Crisp Thinking Review – This is another moderation job that is contract where no experience is required. Fill out their survey or sign up on their waiting list to get accepted.

Writing

There are many no experience needed jobs in the writing world.

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 that pay you to write I have listed, 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.

Verblio – Read Verblio Review – 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.

BKA – Buy Keyword Articles – Read BKA Review – This is SEO-focused content. They pay every two weeks via Paypal. The application process involves a short quiz covering your grammar/punctuation, etc.

Crowd Content – Read Crowd Content Review – Pays twice monthly. They aren't always open to registration.

Textbroker – Read Textbroker Review – 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 – Read Wordgigs Review – 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.

Most of the writing sites listed above are content sites that will always pay a set rate per word.

If you're interested in going into business for yourself as a freelance writer, finding your own clients, and setting your own rates, I recommend reading this information I've posted on starting a freelance writing business (an interview with someone who has successfully done this).

Research

Wonder – Read AskWonder Review – This is a company that hires home-based researchers. I do not believe you have to have any specific past work experience to be considered, you just have to be really good at researching things online. Writing skills will help, too.

For More Entry-Level Work at Home Jobs . . .

Although it's a fee-based membership site, I've found very high-quality work at home job leads through FlexJobs.

Also, they have fantastic sorting options so you can easily find the positions that are entry-level. If you're looking more positions similar to what's above, you can register at FlexJobs (it's a small fee of $14.95 a month for site access) to see what's available. You can use promo code AFFILPROMO to get up to 30 percent off the already low price.

FlexJobs posts hundreds of job leads at least five days per week. You can see a preview of the current entry-level positions that don't require past experience here.

Want to Learn Money-Making Skills?

If you don't want a lack of experience or training to hinder you, you may want to consider taking an eCourse. I have a page here with a list of the best eCourses for various work at home industries. Many of them offer free intro courses so you can try before you buy.

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Post originally published August 22, 2014. Updated and republished February 10, 2020.