Most applicants GROSSLY overestimate their abilities -

• MTSOs, on a scale of 1 to 10, how qualified are - your applicants for acute care work? sm
  • Not just the newbies who cannot be trusted with acute care! - sunny
    • You are right - Me
      • This is encouraging. Thank you for posting. - nm
  • Out of 20 I hire, maybe 1 will be good enough to keep! - tired MT
    • Gee...are you at all aware of the degree of negativity you have? If your negative... sm - AnnaD
  • Most applicants GROSSLY overestimate their abilities - - no name, no state
    • Testing isn't free either - Me
      • Wow! Ridiculous! I've heard it all now. - nm
  • Are all the bad applicants necessarily newbies????? - just checking
    • Absolutely not. In my recruting experience many were old-timers having worked - for large nationals for years! sm
      • This newbie thanks you. - nm
  • Well, I am sorry to hear about all the problems - you're having with newbies! - sm
  • I think there are a huge number - QA also
    • May not be lying.. *certain* companies never bothered to check their work. - Amazing what I have seen. nm
      • Yes I think so too - Me
    • Here, here. Exactly my experience also, even down to the 10 year work experience. nm - Why do you think they pick 10 years?
      • When I became an MT supe many of my problem MTs - sm
  • What does this tell you? (sm) - QA'r
    • On mine, many MTs with 10+ yrs exp. SHOULD be on 100% QA! - Even scarier. QAer2 NM
    • This should tell MTSOs to value their REAL MTs sm - nm
  • I would have to say the MTs my company hires--sm - just QA person
  • I have very few applicants who can even do easy clinic notes, - forget about acute care
    • OK. Double wow. Same newbie here doing well. - I guess I went to a good school! - nm
  • You can't imagine.... - me
    • Amazing - newbie
      • How many lines are you producing a day? - You go girl!
        • I produce around 1000 lines per day... - newbie
          • That will change - once you start - NM
          • Good for you; you're a natural born MT and I wish you well. nm - Sadly, I think you're a nice exception from mos
            • Thank you so much for the kind words! - newbie
      • It's great you are doing so well. Are you doing all work - types, including ops, and ESLs? nm
        • Also Psych and ER....forgot about those! - newbie
        • Yes, I do everything - newbie
    • Wow. I'm a newbie MT, and I can do waaaay - better than that! - sm

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type.  I've been doing it for years.  I only re-read reports that the dictator is extremely nonsensical, can't put a sentence together to save his/her life, or if the dctator just seems like they don't know what they are doing.  But other than that, I feel pretty confident that I put out accurate reports.  I generally get 99-100% on my QA evals and I'm one the high producers in my department.

I've trained many a Transcriptionist who double, triple, even quadruple check everything they type because they just don't trust themselves.  If you are a newbie, I can understand not trusting yourself yet, but generally if you've been doing this for more than 2 years, you should know what you're doing and you should trust yourself.  If you don't, then you're in the wrong business.  Unfortunately, we are in a profession were we are expected to be both accurate and productive.  If you have a problem achieving both, then again you're in the wrong profession. 

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