I have 15 years experience and I had to test with them.
Posted By: really on 2009-10-06
In Reply to: It is easy to get hired at TransTech - if you have experience - you won't need to test - Happy TT'er (NM)
Now they offer no testing for experienced MTs?
When I applied, they said they had no PT hours available unless strictly weekend.
Also, you have to work 1 weekend day, and supposedly Mondays are very slow.
I was offered a very low rate and was told that would mostly have to do VR.
Politely declined and will leave the work for those happy TTs who like to work weekends for next to nothing.
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I have 14 years of experience and I bombed the transcription test. Where oh where did I go wrong..
Oh well, I was offered a QA position at our local hospital so it worked out.
I have 19 years experience and was told the same thing. I think their test is incorrect.
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Look at it this way. Each test is an experience
and it will help you gain some insight into what to expect. Like I said above, their accounts are rather difficult so they need to stay firm on what they require because you would be really disappointed to get in there and find out you make no money. You will pass another test for someone else. Keep your chin up.
I had the same experience with their test
And they told me to go back to school. I just got an e mail (a mass e mail, I assume) from their recruiting dept saying they are hiring and to call them.
Do you think they would let someone test with one year of experience? Thanks. nm
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2 years ago I took the test and ...
the person recruting called me to ask if I would consider the QA manager position because I had scored higher on their test than anyone had before. So, they fly me down, put me up, I rent a car and take a look. It is a slave house. Everyone but the person who was acting as the recruiter was great. It was a slave house. They record off RERECORDED work...talk about listening through the sounds of Pink Floyd! They say they wanted to offer me the job but don't tell me how much they will pay me. I go home and sit back and wait. THREE weeks later the recruiter calls and gives me the details. I tell him I'm no longer interested. It had taken over 2 months from the time I took their test to get an offer. While I was their, the person boosted about infidelity...that was what really got me. First time I made a mistake, there wouldn't be anyone there to catch my back.
I walked away and never looked back. 
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If you don't have "tons of experience," you may fail the test!! nm
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Is 7 cpl test/3.5 cpl VR for someone with 13 years exp a good amt.
Does not sound like it. Depends on their definition of line and whether they count spaces, but unless it's an awfully short line (most are 65 char) and they count spaces and headers and footers and supply the computer and have really, really cheap insurance (and you said there were no benefits), I'd say definitely NO. 8.5-9 regular and 5 for VR for acute care for experienced. And that's with benefits. Without, I'd say 10-12 or more. Have never heard of more than 5-6 for VR, though.
Only about 8 more years till retirement, but I AM going to take the test. (sm)
Have never felt the urge to do so in the past, but the company I am working for now reimburses the testing fees and you get a small raise because you are a CMT. It all adds up to being beneficial for me money-wise, so.... I chose to do it for that reason and that reason alone.
No MT experience needed for test, really. Just good reference materials.
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I have had two offers and this interview/test so far. I have worked for Q for 14+ years with
another two at a hospital and one at a clinic before then. I graduated from a cc with a trans cert in 1991. So, I have a bunch o' experience and love this job, but hate it now at the Q. I never cried WHILE I was working before this month! LOL! What about you?
Just took a test today for a company and I am amazed how rusty I am after not testing for years and
years. I had to really think about things again. I guess after you test enough you get used to it. That is the first one I took in about 13 years. I just more or less did it to see how it was. Should be interesting to see how it went because I really dont want to work for the company I just wanted to take the test. A lot of tricky questions in it.
After all these years, if I use Media Player, I just have my test outline ready and play the voice
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7.25 cpl - 12 years experience
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With how many years of experience ?
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I have 18 years of experience and yet
I got sent a letter telling me to reapply when I had more experience.
They would not tell me what I missed on their testing. I know I did not do that badly.
You can have them.
I have 20 years experience....
they wanted to pay me $10/hr for the first 30 days. Puleeze.
And how many years experience do you have?
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I have 10 years of experience, that's how.nm
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5 years experience?
All of the companies I'm finding want someone with 5+ years experience.
Does anyone know a good nationwide company that would be happy with 2-1/2 years experience?
Gee...I have over 30 years experience
and I STILL use reference books and websites to look things up and verify spellings, words, etc. Maybe that explains why you were let go better than anything else. With the rapid advances and changes in medicine...I don't think that anyone ever gets to know enough to stop using references.
19 years experience was not enough. Wow!
I'm kinda curious who did get the job, maybe someone with 40 years experience =)
I have 23 years experience
and I still run into grammar errors; part of it was the last company I worked for made me do some very strange things. But, also, it's because since my schooling 23 years ago, somethings really have changed, and I myself have gotten fairly lax about it. The last company I worked for didn't correct anything; be thankful for the criteria, and LEARN from it. This will make you a BETTER mt.
I have nearly 20 years' of experience and have
recently started exploring options. I have been offered 10 cpl as employee and 11 as an IC with a couple of companies. The lowest I've been offered is 9 cpl as employee.
It should be 20 years' experience OR 20 years of experience
the apostrophe takes the place of the OF.
Well, my experience is from a few years ago (sm)
but at that time they were fine to work with. They always paid on time. I actually had to re-record on my account, but like I said, that was probably closer to 4 years ago now. I remember that the people were nice as well. I ended up moving on because for one reason or other they lost the account I was working on, and I was already an IC for another company at that time, but the parting was on good terms. I'd work with them again.
17 years experience.
Loved your toast!!
I have 5 years of experience
going on 6, and I was just offered 9.5 cpl for straight typing on an ER account, and I can't wait to start this week.
Ten years experience and
Yes I listen 100%.... I could never do blanks only on any of the MTs as they still all make enough errors to make the dangerous.
I have more than 15 years of experience.
It was not my fault that they could not get their ducks lined up in a row.
Just because you have 30 years experience (sm)
doesn't mean there isn't much to still learn. I too have almost 30 years experience. Believe me, when I first started with WMX, I was shown how much I didn't know that I thought I did.
I have learned so much in the last couple of years with WMX. That's the difference between a company with a good, responsive QA dept as opposed to one with no or limited QA.
I have over 20 years of experience - sm
I can't get them to answer my resume when I sent it TWICE. I know they employed a gal who had absolutely no experience so maybe they thought I knew too much or wanted to much $$ and didn't even ask??
over 30 years rad experience -
not worried about the test. Just can't afford to give up insurance where I am, so looking for a good part-time option. Thanks for all the replies! I will definitely look into it further. 
Even with 20 years of experience
I did work on-site, and when I left, they had to realize the hard way all that I did for them. I am the one laughing now all of the way to the bank.
Hey on-site job, thanks for the experience because I'm making close to $50.00 an hour now. Thanks to you and your networking, I gained my own accounts and a great name for myself!!! 
Again - it was several YEARS ago when I had a bad experience
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PS & that was with 20 years' experience
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many years of experience
You can't expect to make 35-40K per year with just one year of experience under your belt -- it takes a LOT of time and patience as well as discipline -- meaning ignore the phone during the day and set one or two days to do all your errands -- plus its a lot of hours.
I have 15 years experience
and I get paid 6 cents for speech recognition and 10 cents for transcription. But all of their dictation is being moved to speech recognition, from what I have been told.
With 25 years' experience...
I can get a job anywhere...For a company to let a skilled MT go simply because he/she cannot be manipulated would constitute complete idiocity on the part of the company. I would never accept such a position. My time is MY TIME and my life is MY LIFE.
Anyone???? I have 15 years experience, sm
I know the pay scale is lower now but need to know roughly what the starting pay is before I waste my time testing.
I do all work types.
Thanks in advance.
I have almost 10 years of experience...
and have never worked for a national - therefore, I've never seen this kind of information come up in demographics. I get a copy of the patient list from the clinic that only has the patient's name and clinic ID number, no social security number or anything like that and there's only a DOB if it's a new patient.
We should be screaming harder about all this information going off shore, but not at each other - take out your anger on our government that has allowed this to happen!!!!! Write your senator, write your representative, write Obama!
Almost 4 years of experience and I have
2 jobs. Both pay 9 cpl. One job has a very nice production bonus and if I type over 12,000 lines in a pay period, I get 9.5 cpl for all lines typed. If I type over 13,000 lines in a pay period, I get 9.75 cpl for all lines typed and if I type over 15,000 lines in a pay period I get 10 cpl for all lines typed.
These are both clinic accounts specializing in cardiology, so I only type one specialty. I consider myself very lucky. My first day of transcription work was March 29, 2005, so I am right at 4 years. I don't believe it will get any better and realize that I am probably maxed out as far as line rates.
I have 10 years experience here
For the record, I have been in the business for almost 10 years. Maybe I did read more into my supervisor's statement, maybe not. I just think that was the last thing I needed to hear after finding my father an hour before that. As far as quitting, I didn't want to. I''m no idiot. I realize i have a family to support and thank god I have a wonderful husband who I share the financial aspect equally with. As far as the unemployment goes, when I had our daughter, my company didnt want to pay unemployment then when i was on maternity leave. I was not ready physically to go back to work just after 6 weeks but did so to survive. My employer said to set up the baby at our work stations to take care of their needs. They gave us a 30 minute break for an 8 hour shift. Well, sorry but a baby needs to eat and have diaper changes more than one 30 minute break so here I am working my butt off while at the same time feeding her and changing her diaper so I could get my 8 hours in and its not an easy thing to do trying to type, edit, and feed a baby all at the same time. I gave myself to this company and was a very dedicated worker more so than I can say for the ones who just chose to not work hardly at all and still have a job there. Holdays with families? Yeah right, not until you got your 8 hours in when there was no work. I was told by unemployment when I had my daughter that i could get unemployment if i voluntarily quit my job which is exactly what I did when I lost my father.
Have probably more years experience than most here
Almost to 40 years pretty soon and I have not run into the garbage you speak of. I make a decent salary and if I had to do VR with what others say they have to work with, then I would just retire. I have never edited work by a Transcriptionist but I do not think their's could be any better than what I use at present. As far as how much experience a person has now, do you think with these companies it matters? They all basically seem to pay the same, except and I hate to see this coming, most now advertising for VR seem to be dropping their line rates. Did I mention retirement?
Sorry, but I have 30 years experience
I'm not about to put up with their nit-picking to improve myself. I think I know how to do MT after all the years of experience I've had. It was not just the first review that made me decide I didn't want to work for them. The platform they put me on sucks as well, and I had specifically asked for a VARIETY of work types, i.c. basic four, and all I was given were op reports with terrible quality of dictation. For all my pain and torture, I was paid $38. It was not worth it to me. The newer MTs don't know how nice it was years ago when you were actually allowed to do your job instead of being micromanaged to death. By the way, I always turned out quality work with 99.9% accuracy at other places, so I hardly think I needed to improve in order to work for them.
For 20 years of experience & as an IC, that's WAY too low.
That's equivalent to about 6 cpl MT and 1 cpl VR as an employee with benes.... I have 15 years and currently make 10 cpl as an employee with benes, which is equivalent to about 12 as an IC. Of course, you also have to weigh how good or bad the work is, if they switch you between a hundred accounts or let you work mainly on a primary, if the audio and dictators are good, etc. In general, though, that is way too low of an offer.
I have had a great experience and have been with KS for 4 years. sm
Unfortunately, I think that everyone has a different experience at each company and it really depends who you deal with. I am happy at KS, as is my sister and a friend of hers but another friend of mine did not have a good start up and left after two weeks. It is all in who you work with, and this seems to be the norm at all the companies.
I do know that they have been growing steadily for the past 5 years or so and continue to grow. The things that are important to me are covered in that I make good money, love my account, get paid on time and am left alone as long as I do my work. I get good feedback and have had good experiences when I needed time off unexpectedly.
The best way with any company is to call and get your own "feel" for the company.
I am sure that if you were hired, quit your job, had everything installed and then did not hear back, that you are leaving something out here. If you were installed, why did you not start working?
I started at 10 cpl also- 20+ years experience
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what do you think someone with 30 years experience should be paid ?
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They offshore, I have 20 years' experience and
they only offered me 8 cpl.
Offered 7.25 cpl for 30 years experience - sm
Your offer sounds like a good deal compared to mine, but neither is what we are worth.
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