I find that people who refuse to say who they recruit for are frauds. Nonsense.
Posted By: really? on 2006-10-04
In Reply to: I find that people who call others fraud are jealous. - yet another recruiter
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If you refuse, you will find very little SM
work to do. They'll tell you it's because you won't do VR, plenty of work there.
frauds
And I'll bet the name wasn't in any way to be a subliminal connection to WMX.
Thanks for the heads up on these (many) types of crooks.
Many people come to this board to find out
have had with MT companies that they may be checking out or applying to. I personally appreciate any information that I gain from this board and from the experiences - good or bad - of anyone who is kind enough to post that information before other people have a terrible experience with a company like not getting paid, like getting ripped off, like being lied to, or otherwise. I've also found a great transcription job as a direct result of the positive comments made about that company on this very board. If you want everyone to post nothing but positive comments, what is the significance of the Company board?
Who died and left you in charge of being the posting police?
Keep the name coming for the new people who find this web site. sm
She has deceived too many MTs. 
I find it extremely odd how people from the same office seem to have such different stories. How do
you explain that. I hear many people complaining about work at MQ and Buffalo and having many different accounts so I do think you are damage control. Sorry.
I find that people who call others fraud are jealous.
Many people are jealous that others have made something more. It is the difference in each of us. I am sure if the recruiter who calls herself a hiring manager says she earns $46,000 that she does. I might even know who it is. I know I earn more and guess what?? I know one more recruiter that makes more than I do!
Being a recruiter, I know that you do not go around telling the company you earn that salary for because that is not professional to name the company, but if you think it is not possible, you are wrong. When you have excelled in the industry, it is not only possible, but probable.
If you want to make that kind of money, do something wonderful with your MT work and go for it, but you can't do it if you do not have the people skills or the ability to analyze.
I find it hard to believe with this new pay plan coming out soon that they will be paying people
that rate and I understand all offices will be paying the same base rate and I seriously doubt they will be paying all MTs 9.50 base rate with incentive to get 2 more cents at 1600 lines. That is more than they are paying most now and have stopped giving raises.
Do tell. I find it interesting in what some people like and dislike in a company. Could you share
more about your experience...
nonsense
I have been working for Transhealth for the past couple of years and we definitely have different outlooks regarding our employer. I know for a fact, like other coworkers, that there are problems with some members of the QA staff who have no respect for the trx and we might differ on this as we probably are not on the same account. Also they keep changing mgmt staffing and NOT adding to it on the contrary as I am still employed with them and have witnessed this myself.
Nonsense...
This is always the first response from people like you when someone disagrees. It's total nonsense. Guess what? The MTSOs who charge 18 cpl are the ones who pay their MTs decent wages, but not all clients will pay 18 cpl. Wake up!
If you do a search on here you'll find mixed responses to the experiences people have had with th
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I've been following your story because I find it disgusting the these MTSOs stiff people
and get away with it. I find it awesome that you had the courage to stand up to her and send this notice to the hospital. Why shouldn't they know what liars and thieves they contract to. A lot of business out there that subcontract, especially hospitals, are even running background checks so they know how they are dealing with. I'd file a complaint with BBB, Department of Labor..anywhere I could to get her bad name out there and hopefully if she does try to solicit more business she won't be able to. Again, I applaud you!!!! Good work!!!!
Verbatim nonsense!
Thuh patient ah, um, ah presented ah came in ah today with a complaint of ah um left-sided headache, a headaches of a daily basis, um.........(shuffle through some papers or something).....um - Comment: So when they say verbatim don't we have to use common sense? He had a hysterectomy, and that 5-year-old quit smoking last year. Duh.......Verbatim accounts simply wear me out!! Do they want it verbatim because they think they are saving money or what? Ending sentences in prepositions, mixed tenses, no conjunctions or prepositions, etc. A punctuation nightmare!! Also their insisting on using acronyms, which have multiple meanings. Am I alone out here? I am so tempted to type something just once exactly, I mean exactly, as dictated.
spi and their ongoing nonsense
This company is hands down the worst company I have ever worked for in my 3+ decades in this business. That arbitration agreement is not worth the paper its printed on. They can TRY to make us think that though, can't they. hmmmpfff.
Are we going to be subjected to this nonsense -
If so, warn us now so we can skip over your rants, k?
If you don't catch all the nonsense
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Agree! VR is nonsense and should NOT be used in
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Nonsense! It's not a pay cut. Engage brains! SM
For goodness sakes. How hard is it to understand: You produce more lines in the same time because you're cruising through the documents faster, so you're paid less per line. This meeting showed their average-worker example actually came out a bit better.
If you don't want to lose out, stop complaining about everyone else and determining to see yourselves as victims. It's dumb. As dumb as that there are people who are doing badly on the new platform because they're refusing to learn the new keystroke shortcuts. If that isn't self-defeating, what is? And of course, if they're not doing that, they're also not building all the additional shortcuts so many of us use to speed our work up and turn it into $$$$.
For myself, I learned eScription as quickly as possible, learned Enterprise as quickly as possible, developed my Expanders as quickly as possible, and will be learning this new platform as quickly as possible.
I'm interested in hearing how the averages work for high producers. I'm not in the top bonus category, but it seems to me there's not the same advantage to them in increased production from the bonus system unless an additional tier to achieve is established. They're already there.
that's who they recruit for and
possibly another company
Who do you recruit for?
If you don't mind sharing.
Agree VR is awful, so why half the pay for this nonsense?
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You recruit for what company? Why so shy?
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Do you recruit MTs for Keystrokes or not?
They all post below, but not yet one of them will say what company they recruit for. What is sm
up with that? Does anyone wonder? LOL. I sure do.
Synthescribe has taken to another board to recruit
One of their employees is all over another board recruiting and getting 100 bucks per referral. Thats just pitiful.
Because recruiters get paid to recruit....SM
Would prefer to hear some opinions of those that have possibly already been there and done that. Thanks for your input. :)
Who does Louise Hancock recruit for? (on job-seek
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"Hiring Manager", and who calls them that, who exactly do you recruit for that you make 42 K s
recruiting? You have been asked, but still do not answer. Fraud? I think so. Most recruiters are frauds. If you do indeed make that much, then from whom? And what do the MTs make?
I recruit for a company that has had ups and downs on this board and have some insight.
I attended MTIA a few weeks back and spoke with other recruiters and some established MTSOs and some just starting to build their MTSOs. What I learned is that most companies are alike in many ways, and most want to improve. The common factor was often that they want to do more for their employees but get slapped in the face too often by MT's who do not work when they are supposed to, do not produce what they commit to and think that they are better than they actually are but cannot take criticism of any sort. There are a lot of MTSOs who do not offshore, but they are frustrated by MT's who want more and more and give less and less. It's a catch 22 for them too, so maybe it's time for everyone to step back and reevaluate.
As a recruiter, I sometimes get 100 resumes a week. Most do not even get past that first contact and here is why:
When I get a resume that has a typo in it, I do not even acknowledge it. I shred it. I have learned that if someone cannot be accurate on their first impression, they will not be later on. You'd be surprised how many resumes and cover letters are full of obvious typos.
If we have a help wanted ad that specifies 2 years of experience required, half the resumes will be from students or those with no experience. They can be very demanding and rude at times, which is no way to treat a potential employer.
If we have a specific ad for hours and/or days, about 40% of the responses are for something completely different.
We now have auto reply for resumes but will probably get rid of that in the near future. Many applicants take the auto-reply as a sign that they are being considered even if they are not, especially the often very pushy offshore applicants, even though our ads say no offshore applicants will be accepted.
Another thing that I see far too often is that some applicants, right up front, demand certain days and hours and pay, no matter what our ad says.
Finally, here is the biggest turn off for me: Failure to follow instructions. Our ads always say that we do not accept attachments, to paste resumes into email. However, there will be days when every single email I receive has an attachment. I have now set it up to send emails with attachments to spam, which automatically empties each night. Those that go into spam do not get an auto-response. That's the way I set it up and it works well. Why should I respond to each one that blatantly ignores instructions? Again, if someone cannot follow instructions when applying, they most likely will not once employed.
There are a lot of wonderful, experienced, hard-working MT's in the U.S. who follow instructions, keep their word and take pride in producing quality reports. It takes a while for us to get the great employees but we keep sorting through junk to get to them, just as they have to sort through companies to eliminate the bad ones.
I have recruited for 4 different companies over the last 10 years. While they can be very different in many ways, most are pretty decent and want to treat their employees well, but they are getting burned out by being burned over and over again.
MTIA opened my eyes. If we do not start working together, the U.S. companies will start sending everything offshore where the employees want and need the work. The offshore companies were out in force and they are looking for ways to improve, which is scary. They WANT to take over, and we are giving them a lot of opportunity.
Don't let anyone fool you. AHDI and the big-wigs from the big companies are VERY friendly with the offshore companies. Their work is getting better and their prices are better and U.S. only companies might be phased out because of this. We need to take back our industry or offshore companies and VR are going to take it from us.
Polish your skills, make sure that your resume is perfect and be persistant.
I recruit for a company that has had ups and downs on this board and have some insight.
I attended MTIA a few weeks back and spoke with other recruiters and some established MTSOs and some just starting to build their MTSOs. What I learned is that most companies are alike in many ways, and most want to improve. The common factor was often that they want to do more for their employees but get slapped in the face too often by MT's who do not work when they are supposed to, do not produce what they commit to and think that they are better than they actually are but cannot take criticism of any sort. There are a lot of MTSOs who do not offshore, but they are frustrated by MT's who want more and more and give less and less. It's a catch 22 for them too, so maybe it's time for everyone to step back and reevaluate.
As a recruiter, I sometimes get 100 resumes a week. Most do not even get past that first contact and here is why:
When I get a resume that has a typo in it, I do not even acknowledge it. I shred it. I have learned that if someone cannot be accurate on their first impression, they will not be later on. You'd be surprised how many resumes and cover letters are full of obvious typos.
If we have a help wanted ad that specifies 2 years of experience required, half the resumes will be from students or those with no experience. They can be very demanding and rude at times, which is no way to treat a potential employer.
If we have a specific ad for hours and/or days, about 40% of the responses are for something completely different.
We now have auto reply for resumes but will probably get rid of that in the near future. Many applicants take the auto-reply as a sign that they are being considered even if they are not, especially the often very pushy offshore applicants, even though our ads say no offshore applicants will be accepted.
Another thing that I see far too often is that some applicants, right up front, demand certain days and hours and pay, no matter what our ad says.
Finally, here is the biggest turn off for me: Failure to follow instructions. Our ads always say that we do not accept attachments, to paste resumes into email. However, there will be days when every single email I receive has an attachment. I have now set it up to send emails with attachments to spam, which automatically empties each night. Those that go into spam do not get an auto-response. That's the way I set it up and it works well. Why should I respond to each one that blatantly ignores instructions? Again, if someone cannot follow instructions when applying, they most likely will not once employed.
There are a lot of wonderful, experienced, hard-working MT's in the U.S. who follow instructions, keep their word and take pride in producing quality reports. It takes a while for us to get the great employees but we keep sorting through junk to get to them, just as they have to sort through companies to eliminate the bad ones.
I have recruited for 4 different companies over the last 10 years. While they can be very different in many ways, most are pretty decent and want to treat their employees well, but they are getting burned out by being burned over and over again.
MTIA opened my eyes. If we do not start working together, the U.S. companies will start sending everything offshore where the employees want and need the work. The offshore companies were out in force and they are looking for ways to improve, which is scary. They WANT to take over, and we are giving them a lot of opportunity.
Don't let anyone fool you. AHDI and the big-wigs from the big companies are VERY friendly with the offshore companies. Their work is getting better and their prices are better and U.S. only companies might be phased out because of this. We need to take back our industry or offshore companies and VR are going to take it from us.
Polish your skills, make sure that your resume is perfect and be persistant.
Same exact message a few weeks ago and poster is the manager trying to recruit.
Which is fine but you should really try to keep posting as the one person you are CMT-me. You make it appear that you have employees recommending you when in fact you are the one that is doing your own recruiting but you should not pose as another employee.
Refuse? Ha! Ha! SM
I worked there for almost 2 years and there is no refusing mandatory OT. If they say OT, you work it. It was usually 1 or 2 hours a day.
If you would still refuse to get SM
your CMT after you've seen it's slowly becoming a requirement, then the only person who is keeping you from your livelihood is YOU.
Let's refuse to do it!
I have heard that companies pay the same whether it is VR or typing as well and I honestly think we should all just REFUSE to do it. If nobody does it, what choice would they have? They could of course recruit fresh newbies with no experience, but they would see quickly an MT needs good experience to correct and fix all of that junk that gets printed on there.
I refuse to allow a company to IM me.
I turn the stupid thing off when I am working because I do not want the distraction. If the boss has something important to say, then they can write or call, but don't think I was put on this earth so you can jot me little notes all day long.
I refuse to work on anything else.
Okay...once in a blue moon fill in with some FTP stuff but LOVE escription. :-)
You cannot live on that and i refuse to do it.
I have not done line pay ever and won't. Yes, I have bills to pay just like anyone else, but seeing my pay get cut because of the laziness of others (which I think is just an excuse--only a few I know ever abused hourly QA pay--actually not that many). Everyone I have ever worked with in QA no matter what company worked very hard. We worked together and I am telling you that if companies are giving you the reason that people abuse it, they are lying to you. They are just plain cheap and they found out that some companies got away with it so they are trying to do it. I said it on other posts, I hope they all go out of business because anyone who is worth their weight in gold will not take wages like that and the ones I know have all quit. We are trying to figure out what to do about it, but to be honest...we'd all rather do anything else but this in this industry that has no respect for any person alive.
if there is work and you refuse to do wm
it unemployment can refuse you also. They don't care how much it is per line, that doesn't come into play.
There is a line though where you can draw a partial check if you make more than a certain amount.
Bottom line is, just because a company doesn't pay what you want it to doesn't mean there isn't work and that is all unemployment is concerned with.
I think we should refuse to do VR for that rate and tell them to....sm
.....send it to India!
I refuse to work for any company that
insists you use their computer and YOU have to pay for it. I can't believe MTs companies to do this.
Why I refuse to renew my CMT certification
This is from http://mtindia.info/news/latest/heartland-information-services-spryance-inc.-merge.html
(see ALL CAPS in second-to-last paragraph)
Heartland Information Services, Spryance, Inc., Merge Written by News Editor
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
Combined Companies Create Premier Outsourced Transcription Provider Heartland Information Services has merged with Spryance, Inc., forming one of the premier offshore transcription providers in the United States. Spryance shareholders will fund the purchase of Heartland Information Services from HCR ManorCare. The new combined company will be marketed under the Heartland Information Services brand.
Headquartered in Boston, Spryance provides transcription service to more than 175 hospitals and clinics across the country, utilizing 1,200 MTs in India. Heartland’s corporate headquarters is located in Toledo, Ohio, with work centers in Bangalore and Delhi, India. By combining companies, the new Heartland will have over 2,500 medical transcriptionists providing service to over 200 hospital and clinical customers.
Dennis Paulik, General Manager of Heartland, will become the President and CEO of the new combined company. Raj Malhotra, CEO of Spryance, will become Chairman of the Board of the combined companies. Joining Mr. Malhotra on the board will be Gene Barduson, Chairman and CEO, Alteer, Inc., Dennis Byerly, former CEO Third Millennium Healthcare Systems, Inc., Mahendra Patel, formerly with DEC, David Beecken, Partner, Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company, and Thomas Schleisinger, Partner, Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company.
“Combining the two companies creates synergies that will add value for customers,” says Dennis Paulik, President and CEO of the new Heartland Information Services. “For example, Heartland provides industry-leading quality and customer support and Spryance provides capacity and scalability.”
“The Spryance investors, led by Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company and International Finance Corporation, provide the financial strength and resources for the new Heartland to grow rapidly,” adds Mr. Malhotra, Heartland Information Services Chairman of the Board.
...
American Association for Medical Transcription, in association with Prometric, announced the Registered Medical Transcriptionist (RMT) credentialing exam – a newly developed global ‘level-1’ credential in the arena of Medical Transcription. This program is aimed at helping the existing talent pool to scale up and meet the global standards and quality benchmarks. THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS ALSO ANNOUNCED A SPECIAL 'INDIA PRICE' FOR AAMT'S EXISTING CERTIFIED MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST (CMT) EXAM (emphasis mine).
Medical Transcription is a booming industry with exponential growth prospects and opportunities for committed players. While globally the industry potential is around USD 30-33 billion, in India it is around USD 300 million. Currently, there are around 18,000 medical practitioners in the country and this is expected to almost double within the next 2-3 years.
Stay at Precyse and refuse or don't do ASR and
consistently on both your primary and secondary accounts. Then whatchagonna do? They're not real big on sharing work out of regions.
Agree. I refuse to sit around and wait.
My family started a new business last year and I am just waiting for our client list to build and then I am jumping ship. No need to wait around until the worm turns when I could be making good money now, not siting around hoping that I will make decent money 10 years from now.
They have a couple of travelers that absolutely refuse
to take an assignment if there is a drug test. Now I don't know about you, but to blatantly come right out and tell the company you work for that you can't pass a drug test and give you another assignment that doesn't require one ... TAKES NERVE AND BALLS! But they allowed this.
This one guy (yes, a male transcriptionist) would take the rental car from Illinois and drive back to Shreveport, Louisiana just to bring back pot! And then had the nerve to charge the hospital/company for mileage. AND THE HOSPITAL PAID FOR IT!
They refuse to deduct state taxes, if that's
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I absolutely refuse to take long tests.
Maybe one dss file, that's it for me. I'm finished typing someone's work for the day. I feel like you are actually doing work for free on some of these tests. They get your test, and then don't even reply back that you failed. I would almost bet they are giving you their overflow. Then all they have to do is QA it. I feel like if they get a backlog they say, hey let's put it as a job offer. We'll get bites, we'll have them do it as a test, and then all we need to do is QA it, and it is like they are getting us to type for free... 
I amend the contract or refuse to sign
I've been presented with a no-compete 2 times. Both times when I questioned the employers for more specifics, the info I received from them went contrary to what the clause actually stated. (I think they had just copied it from somewhere.) I told them if they had a presence on the Internet, then their market was the entire world and that if I signed that contract as stated, it would mean I could not work for anyone in the world as a Transcriptionist for a year and there was no way I was going to sign that. Both times the employers they said they did not realize this. They just didn't want anyone stealing their clients.
I refused to sign each one until I personally rewrote that clause stating specifically that I would not pursue any of their current clients, especially the accounts I was on, for a year after leaving their employ and that if I pursued someone but did not realize that entity was their client, I would not be held responsible (since I was not privy to their client base). That was it. Nothing more. They were more than glad to comply and said they were glad I told them this and would amend that contract for future employees, as neither one of them wanted to prevent anyone from working.
I'd consider possible court costs if you take the severance and pursue work. They might not win if it went that far but you'd still be at chance for possible hefty fees just to get the case dismissed and end up with less money and more hassle. Your lawyer should be able to give you a figure on this.
I am with you and am happy to refuse low paying offers. However,
I know there are people out there who will continue to work for peanuts. I am anxious to see how may responses you get to your post. Come on ladies. Let's do this!
I absolutely REFUSE to send them feedback.
It takes way too long. I've done this in the past, and as you've also stated, nothing came of it. I won't give them anymore free time. Any time I have, I need to use for my job search.
When I find decent people who know the value of decent wages, I will!
tyvm
I refuse to talk to offshore tech.I say bye, hang up
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