Home › Guides › Scam check › Fake cheques Scam check In the fake cheque job scam, a “new employer” sends you a cheque or a deposit – for equipment, a training budget or a first payment – and asks you to send part of the money on to a vendor, a colleague or back to them. Your bank shows
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Home › Guides › Scam check › Report a scam Scam check If a job offer turned out to be a scam, act in this order: stop contact and payments, call your bank, protect your identity if you shared documents, then report – to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (1-888-495-8501 or online) and to your local police – and finally warn
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Home › Guides › Writing & design › Proofreading Writing & design Proofreading from home in Canada is real, skilled work – the final check of a text for errors and consistency before it is published – and clients test for it. The work comes from publishers, agencies, universities, businesses and translation firms, mostly on a freelance basis. To get
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Home › Guides › Writing & design › Graphic design Writing & design Remote graphic design jobs in Canada are mostly in-house marketing roles, agency positions and freelance contracts for brand, digital, social and presentation design. Employers decide on the portfolio and a short design exercise, then on how well you work with feedback across a screen. This article covers
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Home › Guides › No experience › Part time No experience Part-time remote jobs in Canada are most common in customer support, tutoring, research and rating tasks, bookkeeping and admin for small businesses, and freelance writing or design. “Part time” can mean fixed short shifts as an employee or flexible hours as a contractor – the difference affects your pay,
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Home › Guides › No experience › Data entry No experience Real data entry jobs from home in Canada are hourly back-office roles – keying and checking claims, invoices, orders, records and applications – usually with an insurer, a bank, a logistics company, a government office or through a staffing agency. They pay like other clerical work, test your typing
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Home › Guides › Customer service › Equipment Customer service Work from home call centre jobs in Canada come with a technical checklist that you must meet before training starts: a wired internet connection that passes the employer’s speed test, a USB noise-cancelling headset, a computer that meets their specification (or one they ship to you), and a quiet, private
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Home › Guides › Customer service › Bilingual Customer service Bilingual English–French customer service agents are among the hardest remote roles for Canadian employers to fill, which is why many of them recruit across the country and pay more than for English-only programs. You need professional, not perfect, French: fluent conversation, correct written replies and the vocabulary of the service.
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Home › Guides › Virtual assistant › Rates Virtual assistant A self-employed virtual assistant in Canada should calculate a minimum rate from the bottom up: the income you want, plus the CPP and time off an employer would normally pay, plus your business costs, divided by the hours you can actually bill. For someone aiming to match a $25-an-hour employee
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Home › Guides › Virtual assistant › Getting started Virtual assistant To become a self-employed virtual assistant in Canada you need a short list of services, proof that you can deliver them, a simple business set-up (sole proprietorship, a separate bank account, invoicing and tax records) and a way to reach the first clients. None of it requires a licence
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