Quest. about testing vs. sending resume to company...
Posted By: as on 2007-06-06
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As we know, most companies have you test for them, usually through mttest.com. Some places allow you to submit your resume first, which is often followed by the invitation/direction to take their test. My question is, do most companies just recieve your resume and automatically have you test, or do they actually look at the resume first to see if your initial qualifications are adequate? I've tested at a few places and didn't qualify. I'd love to know that they actually checked out my experience first and that is why they're having me test instead of me spending all that time when they may just be able to tell me I'm not qualified just from the resume. Do you know which is the case?
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Question about sending resume...sm
Sorry if a silly question but...I've never applied for a position from the Job Seeker's board before. When I copy my resume over, do I have to make it look normal in that box, or do I leave as-is and when it gets forwarded, will it look like it originally did in Word? Thanks!
I think sending your resume is the only application
There's nothing else to fill out, just send your resume.
Sending a resume to The Transcription Doctors
Their email address is an AOL email address, so if you are not using AOL, did you put @aol.com on the end of the email address? If you use AOL, of course you do not need to put the @aol.com extension on. As previously mentioned, I sent her my resume and heard back from them about a half hour later.
Same here! They got e-mailed me back within an hour or two to sending my resume!
Can't wait to talk to them on Monday!
Start sending a flurry of resume emails
I would start sending out to everybody I could find on MTJOBS.COM and MTSTARS.COM
Even go back in the older listings for company names, never can tell, thugh no longer listing a job ad, may just find an opening. Would try and work both places until you can tell if the new job is a match.
So Sorry this happened
From someone who bothered sending a resume, I take it back. I'm shocked at the immaturity
level that is going on. There is no way I would even think of accepting a job that would have a recruiter who acts as you have on here. I'm pretty sure you burned all of your bridges. I feel for the companies who hired you to represent them. How proud they must be..NOT.. Wow..
Which companies do oral testing instead of sending files to type? nm
I e-mailed with resume yesterday and am testing today.
She gave me 2 company names I had not seen on the boards, both have better terms than I am making now or had found on my own.
Has anyone gotten a job from any company not posting regularly from their resume in the resume
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LOL Never mind. Good luck with your quest. nm
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If anyone is sending out private emails, I'd like info on this company also! TIA!
nm
This company is scary, already sending out packed to us with terrible errors in it, and we TT MT'
are to have confidence in this company who does our payroll now, takes care of HR matters, etc. The other HR company had done such a great job for us. Just a little frightening, especially in regards to paychecks being correct and on time.
Has anyone sent resume to company, which did not
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I have gotten a reponse from every company I have sent a resume to
I'm just trying to decide which one will work best for me. My current company has been low on work all month, so I am looking elsewhere.
I sent a resume too and was curious what the company was - NM
NM
Testing for company and need help..sm pls..tia!
They will be sending two wave files and I am supposed to open them in Media Player and record them. Then I will use Panasonic to transcribe and send back via e-mail. Can someone please tell me how to open a voice file in Media Player? I have never done this before. tia!
You don't know before testing what company they
will recommend, but you do know the name of the company, so even if D&L uses them you know you don't want to work for them and just tell them so. Of course after you turn down one position you won't hear from them again, but really not big loss.
when testing for a company
Does anyone know when testing for a company and having to use word pad to take part of the test since I don't have just microsoft word, is it necessary to save after every correction? I know I saved after some individual corrections but I think Imay have missed some. I did hit save as of course at the end to save it to word pad. I'm just wondering how the heck I did not pass this test. I had one company ask me if I was certified because I did so well, but I don't know what happened with this one.
Company Testing....sm
Why do the MTSOs give us the crummiest dictators for application testing? I know it wouldn't be a challenge to our MT abilities if they all spoke like Shakespeare, but it seems like they do it on purpose...after lengthy applications, vocabulary tests, interviews, they give us dictation to pull our hair out. They probably couldn't understand half of it themselves. Why not reverse the process (lol), so we can save ourselves some time and effort?  
Company Testing
I just complete as much of the testing that I can do and send it to them. I was sent two voice files that were Acute Care and I have never done that specialty since I have only done Clinic transcription. I e-mailed the person who is handling the testing and told them I would do the Medical Transcription portion and editing portion and send the tests to them. I got hired immediately.
See if it will work that way! I refuse to take any type of voice file dictation test if I have never done that specialty. That's why we send our resumes and tell the company our specialties!!!
Company testing
Could it be that some companies are using applicants to transcribe their poor dictations so all they have to do is a little editing? After all, an applicant is not paid, and has more time to do research. Then all they have to do is send it over to their client and the applicants do the work. Am I suspicious?
The testing is done by an outside company.
I don't know that it follows any particular way, but I always use BOS guidelines unless told otherwise. I am by no means an expert on BOS as the companies I've worked for haven't used it at all, or only used bits and pieces - the client dictated style most of the time. The company that did the testing and Axolotl both told me I did extremely well on the testing, so I'd just say do your best and don't stress.
Has anyone heard from this company that submitted a resume?
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Questions about testing for a company
I just tested for a company who had me transcribe several reports. The reports consisted of good dictators that were extremely fast. Unfortunately, I left a few blanks where I just could understand what she was dictating.
My question is this, how many of you tested for a company where your sample reports had blanks and did you get the job???????
Testing for New England company.
Has anyone done the testing for NE? I tried and found it very difficult to access and upload and download files. In fact my computer said that zip files were corrupted and I could not even get the files loaded. How do you go about uploading zip files? I was afraid to proceed as my computer was warning me of security risks to my computer. Anybody else having these problems?
Whatever that company is, they absolutely do not have access to our resume bank.
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Xmas coming. New company, thinking about sending Xmas cards. (sm)
Thought about just sending one to the office in general, is this tacky? I actually am in contact with some of them more than my direct supervisor.
How do you all handle this, if you send cards at all, that is. This is a fairly small, very family oriented type company. If I were still with MQ you can bet I wouldn't even though my supervisors over the years did always send out a card to me on Xmas. I just never felt very festive when I was working there.
Keystrokes sending sending my W2, anyone else? NM
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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.
How long does it take TransHealth to get back to someone when you send a resume? I sent a resume
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No, but she didn't say she was sending any
We talked this morning, and I told her I needed a couple of days to think about it. Yes, I'd like to chat via e-mail, but how do we do that? Do I do post reply versus post quick reply? Tell me how, and I'll send you a note about it and we can compare notes!
Yes, the week is not over. They are sending
out MT week gifts, and they sent them out late due to packaging problems. Of course, it would be better to win the lottery - but the gifts are very nice! (A tote bag, a pedometer and a stress ball that is modeled as a computer). (I know this because I work in the office)
You are right, they are sending me a check
so obviously it has not been invested. How dare they use our money?
How would you be getting and sending the jobs? SM
I once worked for a hospital for all of six weeks. They had a main frame, which was extremely slow. The head of the department told me how fast it was. The problem was, she never used it.
Find out what the platform is like and if you can use Expanders and how they divvy up the work. Then I would take the job, because I work for national and it is indeed going downhill fast.
After sending one Email you should have
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I would see nothing wrong with sending
one to the company/office in general. It would be very nice I think.
Yes the same MTs sending work to QA
day in and day out. I get sick of it. And nothing is done about it from management.
re sending work to QA
I really don't believe we'd be penalized or cut for that, UNLESS it was for the same type mistakes over and over, or inexcusable ones that would be caught in proofing, etc. Hope I'm right.
Would mind sending me one as well?
I feel so out of it since I cannot talk to anyone about this.
I'm sending you an email. nm
nm
sending you an email. NM
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My STM would threaten us with sending
work to India if work got out of TAT. I think it only did once or twice, as there was never enough work to get in my lines, but I don't take kindly to threats, and it shows a complete lack of maturity on her part.
I sent them an email asking too because I had no intention of sending
them a resume without knowing what the name of the co was. I am sure they get the message if people write.
She's right about sending the letter to Lou Dobbs...
After thinking about this, I realized there are probably several private physicians in Toledo who send their work overseas. My friend here in a smaller town south of Toledo lost her job several months ago doing dictation at a local Cardiology practice. One of the Indian physicians convinced the other partners that his friends in India could do the transcribing much cheaper. Someone else posted further down about offshoring going on even in the smallest towns in America and that is absolutely right. Your letter would get much more exposure and be taken more seriously with someone like Lou Dobbs at CNN.
Anyone else sending out resumes and hearing nothing?
I have 16 years in the business and 4-5 years editing experience, but am just not hearing back from companies advertising on the boards. Maybe they are receiving 100s of resumes...or is it just me? Anyone know of a company looking for an editor, please email me. Thanks!
I've also been sending out resumes and not
I've heard back from a few places wanting me to test and often don't even hear back after the test! I have over 17 years of experience and I can't be doing THAT bad on tests. I think it is probably that they are being inundated with responses.
To be honest, I do not expect a response from every single company I send my resume to. I do expect to hear back from a company once I've tested for them when it is at their request, however! I've hired before and know that when you get scads of emails, many from the same people over and over again, it gets hard to keep track of sending out I got your resume emails. If I emailed someone and asked them to test, though, I would most certainly let them know one way or the other.
I recently tested for a company that I had heard good things about and then never heard one word again. Not even that they received my test files back. I decided right then and there I wouldn't work for them anyway because that's just rude. It takes time out of our day to test and to not hear back--when they requested it--is pretty lame, IMO.
Wouldn't that be the same as thanking you for sending
a thank-you note? When does it end... it is nice to be acknowledged but someone has to end it! :)
Sounds to me like she intended on sending you sm
paperwork via snail mail that require your signature (confidentiality statement, etc.) Sounds like you're in!
Good luck to you.
Precyse, please stop sending
all U.S. MT work overseas, or better yet, why not send the great overseas MTs the junk work we have to do all the time, so they cannot make anything, also!
can anyone tell me about sending daily report and how
you keep track of that? You can e-mail me if you'd rather. Just started and curious if you have to write down all your jobs at the end of shift of is there an easier way of sending this info?
Must be your email, I've been getting and sending
emails all the time.
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