Core Competencies for Remote Transcribers

Core competencies for remote transcribers: young business woman at laptop

Core competencies for remote transcribers are evolving as people adjust to new ways of learning and collaborating during the pandemic. Like all skilled professionals, speech-to-text providers must continually develop their real-time skills to stay competitive in today’s marketplace. Especially if they’re working remotely—which nearly all of us are, for now—they need to update the core […]

Pass the Tomato! The Pomodoro technique.

Four tomatoes sitting on a slate cutting board. The third tomato is a kitchen timer.

“Pass the tomato” you say? What does a tomato have to do with time management? Plenty, according to Dean Kissick, who penned a piece in the June 21 edition of the New York Times Magazine, about the Pomodoro technique, named for the ubiquitous tomato-shaped kitchen timer.   This handy device enables the user to set undisturbed […]