Do you think you get a better response to post your resume on here or answer ads on here. Which one

• Do you think you get a better response to post your resume on here or answer ads on here. Which one - Liz
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I am having a horrible time getting lines in my current job, and I have sent out my resume to AT LEAST 10 companies with no response.  I have 11 years' experience!

Is anyone else having difficulty finding a position?  Im about to pull out my hair!!!!

I sent a resume to Keystrokes and 2 days later I received a questionaire.  I promptly completed it and returned. 

 I received no further correspondence. I would have preferred no response  at all.  The return of the questionaire was never acknowledged  with even a generic rejection or keep your name on file etc.

I understand  companies  cannot employ every person who sends a resume.   I had read so many positive things about Keystrokes such as I love it,  they are great etc I was disappointed they did not at least respond.

I thinks it demonstrates a total lack of courtesy.

Agree or disagree?

Thanks for your suggestions!

 I am not sure I made the point clearly though.

A lack of respone to a resume would not upset me because it was unsolicited. It was the lack of respone to a questionaire THEY sent me.

I also followed up numerous times over several weeks with appopriate thanks etc.

Hi KS lead! I did not mean to hurt your company's reputation. I was merely tyring to help someone by letting them know of my experience. I have read mostly positive things about Keystrokes and I am sure it is a good company.

The only way I have of knowing my response would be received would be if my email bounced back but it did not.  Followup attempts  also were neither returned to my mailbox or acknowledged by Keystrokes.

Now I am going to drop it and I hope you will too. I PROMISE never to state my opinion again.

Hi KS lead! I did not mean to hurt your company's reputation. I was merely tyring to help someone by letting them know of my experience. I have read mostly positive things about Keystrokes and I am sure it is a good company.

The only way I have of knowing my response would be received would be if my email bounced back but it did not.  Followup attempts  also were neither returned to my mailbox or acknowledged by Keystrokes.

Now I am going to drop it and I hope you will too.  

What's up with that.. LOL

There was an ad placed on August 29.  I submitted my resume to them on September 1.  I had some questions and received a response on September 4.  I have sent 2 emails (one on Thursday and one on Friday) since then stating that I would like to talk with her about testing for their company.  I have yet to receive a response.  I have offers from a few others companies, but I really want to speak to this one first.  I have 15 years experience in a multitude of specialities.  I can't imagine that they wouldn't be interested in at least having me test for them.  Am I being too impatient or should I take a hint that they aren't interested?

I've considered emailing again, but it makes me feel like a stalker or something.  I also looked up their website and thought about calling.  However, their ad didn't list the phone number, so I'm assuming they wish not to have calls.  Today is my day off and would be the perfect time to test.

Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you!

I did and have been contacted by 4 companies.  Talked on the phone to 2 different people and 1 was definitely better than the other in terms of pay.   I'm just doing this to fill a gap until I get more clients for my own company but it's a living.

take it to email and more personally than to expose it publicly on an internet bulletin board.

This would show some  (quote) CLASS (/quote).

1.  If you've been gone 7 months why do you care?  How do you know who the supposed troublemakers were if there were any? 

2.  Since you've been gone a while you haven't seen the communications to the employees, therefore it's unfair of you to judge anything about what the company has done since you left and is doing in the future.

3.  The company was open and honest about this experiment with offshore labor - didn't try to hide it like other companies have done.  They could have not said anything, done it, and the transcriptionists wouldn't have known for months.

4.  Experimenting and doing are 2 different things - and just because something is being explored doesn't mean it will be a done deal.

5.  The company fought considering using offshore labor but with the government not caring about it across the US or federal labor it's hard for anyone to fight it permanently - see the administrator for MTStars comments.  IT's not just transcription getting hit by offshore competition.  It's other jobs as well.  Ford is closing plants due to offshore competition.  Kraft is closing plants.  Other companies are doing the same thing and moving jobs overseas.  Stinks doesn't it?  But until we citizens of the US start insisting on stiff tariffs to anyone using labor outside of the US the trend will continue, especially since the lawmakers don't give a crud (probably due to payoffs).

6.  If you're really making all of the money you're claiming then good for you - especially if you're not working extra hours.  Be happy for yourself and don't knock another company.  It makes you look bad.   One person's dream job is another person's disaster.  I'm sure that where-ever you're working now has people who say bad things about it.   

Your post was deleted twice.  You cannot mention account names on this site.

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Most of the companies that I have worked for in the past had a built in method of counting lines.  I was told by the person who supervised me at the company to just take the character count iwth lines and spaces in Microsoft Word and divide by 65 which is what I did.  When the line count came back from the hospital with them using Sylcount, by their methods, I had been shorted approximately 1,000 lines.  I am being compensated by the company for those lines.  I then proceeded the other day to download both Practicount and Sylcount, however for some reason, I could not get a line count.  With Sylcount, it was a trial version, and I found out via the grapevine that with a trial version, it would not count the lines.  I then received a liscened copy of Practicount, from the company; however, again for some reason, it would not count the lines.  As to the other issue involved, because of a family emergency with my current landlord, I am having to find another place to rent.  Right now, my search is limited to weekends and this was explained to both the supervisor and the owner of the company but to no avail.

Janet, in response to your question  -- you work 5 days a week, if your schedule falls on a weekend or a holiday  -- yes, you are EXPECTED to work  -- holidays are a bit lax -- I am NOT taking it out on you personally, but HOSPITALS operate 24/7 and 365 days a year  -- my daughter is a nurse and does not get holidays off unless she schedules way in advance (and she is just a year into her career)  -- I get soooo tired of I don't want to work weekends, I don't want to work holidays that I could scream  -- I know you took the job to be with your kids but think of how business would be otherwise  - when I was growing up, stores used to be TOTALLY closed on Sunday  -- this is no longer the case  -- bet the grocery checkers and everyone else dosent gripe about working weekends or holidays  -- Ithis is a career and you have to take the good with the bad.

I normally get up in the morning, have my coffee check email do checking of my system and hit the ground running  -- sometimes I have good days and sometimes I have awful days, but I have been in this profession for over 30 years and if I have had to had a holiday off, move et cetra I have scheduled it ahead of time  either that too, holidays do not necessarily have to be celebrated on THAT PARTICULAR day.

Off my soapbox

My attempts have all bounced back to my email address saying 

 The message that you sent was undeliverable to the following:   

 Jobs (UNUSED) 

I went on to their website and the email it says to send resumes

 to is jobs@transcriptionoutsourcing.com, which is the one I used.  

Just wanted to see if anyone else got this problem...

mmmm

a name like Provided Upon Contact.  Set up a hotmail or yahoo email and go that route.  When services contact you (and they will if you have what they're looking for) and it's not the service you work for presently, then you can respond to them. 

Good Luck.

surprised that anyone posts anything here. 

I do not work for Keystrokes but I like to see what is out there, and the benefits they are offered, if coupled with a decent line rate and steady work load, are better than most I have seen.

Gone are the days of fully-paid pension plans.  Gone are the days of three weeks' vacation.  Employers cannot afford these, and not just in transcription.

If you aren't interested or do not like something, just ignore the post.  You obviously were interested or you would not have read it.

Can't we cut back on the nasty posts on this board?  If it does not concern you, don't criticize. 

If you are not looking for a new position, don't gripe about ones that are being offered.  If you are looking and a company's line rates, benefits or perks don't meet your personal requirements, why cut that company down?  Just move on and good luck finding what you are looking for. 

I agree with the poster about being mad at the entire industry, but I still love my career choice.  It has been a good fit for me and has allowed me to live a nice lifestyle. 

If I wasn't happy, I'd move on to another career. 

This is only my opinion.  If I am considering taking on a new account, I will send my resume' out to a few companies, and see what offers come in.  If it takes one company a day or two to make an offer and another company a week, I may not be available in a week. 

Not sure if you think it is proper to send out a resume to just one company, and cross fingers hoping they will call with a decent offer.  I, for one, prefer to interview the company, not have the company interview me.

Hope this sheds some insight on why you may not receive a call back from those who submit their resume'.  You may be taking too long to get back to them.