Company suggestions for 1 year experience
Posted By: Wondering on 2005-08-18
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Does anyone have any suggestions for companies (nice companies) that will except 1 year exp., just got burnt real bad by SS
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Any suggestions for a GOOD company?
I have 15 years experience. Looking for a company that is very flexible on scheduling (full time student also) and treats employee like a human.
1 Year Experience / Can't Find Job
I graduated from Northwestern Technical College in April 2004 with a certificate in Medical Transcription. I immediately got a job at a local hospital in the Radiology Department transcribing nuclear medicine studies. I stayed PRN for one year, and had to leave to accept a job that offered insurance (as a receptionist, NOT a transcriptionist). I am now seeking to work from home. I will be eligible for insurance with my husband as of Jan. 1 and benefits are not an issue. I just can't seem to find ANYONE willing to give me a chance, even with one year experience ONSITE. Any suggestions? (I've applied to EVERYWHERE I could, i.e.: OSI, TransHealth, United, etc.)
Work with only a year experience
Well I'm looking for work .. I have a year experience, my current company is 3 cents a line ... ICK but I needed the experience..
HELP any hints....
Need a decent company...
In my 24-year experience, that has not happened. sm
Actually, they let me see the proposals and contracts of their current service so as to provide equal if not better service and fee, etc.
I have to say with just over a year's experience, I'd be more willing to hang on. sm
Typically I would say it is a sign and move on. However, with your experience your options are limited as most companies want more experience under your belt. It wouldn't hurt to look while you wait to get set up and see if you can land another job and then move on, but I would not throw in the towel without having the other one first.
I would have to say that $.08/line is very good pay for one year experience.sm
The company I work for raise the line rate every two years. I rely a lot on my Expander program. Good luck!
Any suggestions for a good MT for part time other than MQ as far as a nice company to work for. I
think it is time for a change about now.
Company states cannot use Vonage. Any suggestions for land line unlimited long distance? nm
OK, just sounded a lot like my experience with a company there. nm
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12 cpl, 24 years experience. I am not giving name of company.
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In my experience, every company I have worked has only edited
reports that I send to them with blanks or questions, which is probably less than 5%. From reading these boards, I get the impression most of the work from India needs to be edited. So you would think if it needs so much editing, it would not worth it. But maybe not. Who knows - we'll just have to see. If doctors complain about the quality that would probably slow the offshoring down.
What, if anything, did you get THIS year from your company
for Christmas?
I asked after a year with the company (sm)
Probably wouldn't ask if I was new though.
My experience with quality/quantity and an Indian owned company.
I worked for an offshore owned company where it was all about quantity. Company even kept a HORRIBLE MT just because she cranked out the lines. Didn't matter her quality was crap and was considered a joke by middle managment. India did most typing but with US edit. Typists changed regularly so it wasn't like they learned to do better. Quality would improve slightly and then would notice, after couple of months, that quality was crap again so we knew we were dealing with a new batch of typists. Even so, the push was always on to get the jobs off US edit and send Indian work straight to client. Of course, the clients never knew they were not getting US editing anymore, as they got no price reduction when they no longer had that level of work being done on their jobs. The problem is the facilities accept the crap work so why should the companies change. It took a while but I finally found a US owned company where quality matters. Now one of the first questions I would ask a prospective employer is if they are US owned.
I was on ERs for about a year at a company, who later changed management, and
then I lost everything, got bumped from ERs, got thrown into multiple accounts. I went from 200-300 lines/hour, to not even able to make 1000 lines/day.
I left that company, and now have the same situation. The lines are better, though, I am back up to where I want to be, but as soon as I start getting good lines for the first week of two-week period, my primary goes dry and I lose lines in the second week. I CAN NOT win.
Right now I am a little upset because I am working on 6 accounts, and truthfully am starting to confuse them.
It burns me, too, because I am trying to hard, yet my quality is suffering.
Then I get notes like 'read the specs' - like, yeah I did, but for the wrong account.
Anyone else get upset with that? I jump between 6 different accounts all day long. This cannot be good for the company, either, because you have to make mistakes.
I had to vent a little bit.
I've been seriously thinking about it. I actually like my company this year.
However, I have no money because work is slow and my kids and bills come first. I've been thinking about baking cookies and candies to mail. The people I would like to give the gift to work at home anyway, so sending it to corporate HQ wouldn't accomplish gifting those I want to thank. I can't afford to send individual gifts to each of them. Plus, a little part of me considers buying things for your supervisor to be brown-nosing.
Last year I worked per dium for a company- sm
just doing discharge summaries. The hospital docs were super backed up, took about 5 weeks to get them all done with 2 of us working on them on a PT basis. I loved it as it was a good rate and not difficult work. Use a C-phone though which I really do not like using. Another IC job I had, you could tell when the doc was about to lose privileges as all of a sudden about 50 discharge summaries, H&Ps, etc would appear. We worked in a pool so it all got done in TAT for the most part. Where I am now, they know if they have 4 or 5 docs dump 100-200 mins each on us all at the same time that it will not be done in TAT. What they need right away they mark as STAT and the rest gets done by the oldest first.
plus my company was kind enough to put $4K in my 401k every year...*smiles*
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Glad to see MT Week recognized here. My company did nothing this year. We have always sm
received a nice gift in the mail in the past. I'm not saying I expect an expensive gift or anything, but a thank you of some sort would have been nice. I waited to post this, holding hope that maybe they were late like last year in sending stuff out, but I have pretty much given up now. Thanks MT Stars!!
What about benefits? I make 50k a year working for a company
out of my home full time. No gas money, no traveling, no printing, faxing, and I get full benefits. How is making 50000 as an MTSO good money? I really just don't get it!
Experience on top, current experience first. Education second. Leave out ALL fluff.
Recruiters don't need your life story. They need to know if you can do the job. If you want, put your current employer, then state "I have 20 years in the profession doing....." Keep it simple; keep it clean. If you want to go into more detail, do it during the interview. A HUGE red flag is to see that you've worked for 10 different companies, for months at a time. I know that someone who has worked for the same company for 2 years or more is going to have some degree of loyalty and will work through issues rather than cut and run.
Mine are in year-round thank goodness! They've started their new year 2 months ago.
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Union diesil mechanic - good pay, great benefits. We swap year to year on who brings home more sm
money.....but I am an IC and he has all the benefits...health insurance/dental that the company pays for, pension plan, 401k, etc. Factor all of that in and he makes way more than I do.
to cowgirl - Last I knew, last year the job paid $25,000/year no taxes, etc.
The hospital was bombed about a year ago, but not a lot of damage, very minimal damage.
44-year-old WF, M, Texas, 3 grown kids, just had 26 year wedding anv.
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nope, still crunching last few days of year to hit my 50k this year. how can you when you haven'
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Nothing this year. We ALWAYS got a cool surprise in the past, but this year nothing. :-( nm
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After I went to a 1-year MT course at a vocational school, it was so bad that I did the 2-year colle
Not only did I finally receive the proper training, but the woman on the advisory board hired and mentored me. I also joined the local AAMT and networked. Good luck. I know how frustrating it can be. A community college will have a good program to include medical language, MT courses taught by local MTSOs, business English, anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, etc.
I think he makes $700,000.00 a year, and if they ask him to walk before his first year MQ has...sm
to pay him a cool 1 million dollars. You can check this out at the Medquist website. I think the CFO makes $350,000 a year, and the head of IT makes $250.000 a year.
P.S. This does not include the perks, like expense account, car allowance, sign-on bonus, etc.
Our 16 year old son has been working for a year now to pay for his truck.
He's learning how to sand and do body work and how the engine and transmission go together. My parents didn't buy cars for my siblings and I either. I had a 20+ year old beater car until I could afford to move up to a a newer one.
I see all the nice new cars parked in the high school parking lot every day. It's nice that so many disrespectful punk kids get handed something nicer to drive than what all the teachers drive. Oh, well. Honestly, I think most of them borrow Mommy or Daddy's car or are the child of a doctor who can afford to hand them everything.
Hopefully, my kids will take better care of their cars because they bought and built them on their own. You're not going to grow up to be responsible if you don't work hard for something and expect Mommy and Daddy to bail you out all the time.
Oh, my Dad lectured us on even allowing our child to have a vehicle because Dad didn't have one until after he had worked his way through college, lettered on the football team, got straight As, lettered on the baseball team, yadda yadda. He either walked or hitched a ride. Yeah, well, times were different back then, Daddy-O. LOL At least my kid has the opportunity to work and earn his own car.
IC - 30 hours week, $98K last year. So far this year - 28K. sm
Individual IC - own account(s).
Not me, owed last year, and expect to owe this year- sm
or break even, had more expenses this year. Only owed $200 but still don't want to owe at all. Need to start doing estimated tax payments again so I don't owe! Guess I will get off my butt and do that this year.
How is one going to get experience, when no one will hire without experience????
 I constantly see all these job openings asking for experience. How can I get experience, when no one will hire me without experience???
Do you need to have 2 years full time experience or just 2 years' experience? nm
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thanks to both for suggestions
don't know why i didn't think of this one...it just might work.
Thanks for all the suggestions. sm
I'm not very adventurous so I don't know how I'd like stripes or room themes, but I'm looking for a splash of color here and there. I did like the idea of the pale blue sponge roller over white walls for the living room and a tan color for the dining room to make it a little more formal. I think we're going to give that a try. The sponge roller will give a little hint of color without making me feel anxious with the too busy or loud.
Thanks again, all
Thanks for your suggestions
I appreciate your suggestions. I have no typos in my resume or cover letter, I have contacted the phone company and let them know that I need DSL for a job, and I have received feedback from my online tests. I did have a position offered to me recently but I didn't have DSL and had to turn it down. I'm sure something will come along eventually. It is just discouraging to be so excited about entering a new career only to find so many hurdles. I guess it will only make me stronger. Your encouragement helps.
suggestions, please!
I need to order a .wav pedal, player and a word expander. Anyone with info on a good pedal/player reasonably priced? Files will be sent to me as dss files. Is there a good web site for new/preowned MT software?
TIA,
sunnyMT
Thanks for all the suggestions.
The IRS check came through in the mail today, so my backside got saved big time. I also got a second job offer today, so I'm going to work two jobs for a while. At least until Christmas. Then I'll decide which job is better or if I can handle both on a permanent basis. I do have some stuff to sell on ebay, so that'll be some quick cash.
Suggestions
Here's my 2 cents for whatever it is or isn't worth. Bear in mind that I'm my own worst critic. The hours worked and dependability aside, the first thing I would do is honestly evaluate my own work. In other words, what criteria did I use to determine that all the work, or at least that not QA'd by myself, was crappy work? Was the work really crappy or am I a "comma freak" or did I send QA feedback in a constructive rather than a critical way.? Sh*t runs both way, QA people can kill even a good MT; MTs can also kill a good QA person.
As for the other QA person, I personally wouldn't give jealousy the time of day unless that QA person was in a position to QA my QA, in which case; yes, she could give you serious problems since many company's management do not have a clue about the work an MT does and wouldn't know quality from crap. Thus, they listen to the employees they trust and jealousy just doesn't factor in. The only thing one can do about that is hope they don't get cross-ways of a jealous type person.
After evaluating myself and finding I had done my best and that every aspect of my job had been above reproach; then I would tell this company to take their job and stick it where the sun doesn't shine and I'd move on down the road until I found a company that would appreciate my dedication and hard work.
Good luck to you and don't let this get you down. While they're hard to find, there are still companies out there who appreciate hard work and dedication and whose management understands MTs because they have been there, done that themselves.
suggestions...
I don't know what Harry & David is, but.. over the years I have given/received flavored coffee, Godiva chocolate, gift cert for lunch at local restaurant, book of car washes, package of CDs, certificate for massage at local health club (my favorite!), manicure certificates.
Wow! THanks for these suggestions!
I am going to try the "propping" of the keyboard and see if that helps. I think I will also order the Smartgloves and Handeze and give them a try. I used to take glucosamine and chondroitin and I seemed to develop hip pain when I did. When I stopped it, the pain went away. Tried it again, the pain returned. I can't imagine why that would happen. Maybe I should give that another shot just in case!
I have been tested for thyroid in the last year, and many years before that, and it is always negative. I have so many of the low thyroid symptoms. Oh well...
Thanks everyone so much!
Here's some suggestions for you...
First off go to the local library and look at the April 2005 issue of Consumer Reports. Each year they rate new/used cars for reliability and it's a great way to see what vehicles have shown to be reliable in your price range and which ones you should run from.
Once you've narrowed down a car regardless of where it comes from you should pay to have a CarFax report run. This report will tell you if the car has been in any accidents.
After CarFax clears the vehicle then you'll want to hire an independent mechanic to check out the vehicle. While this will cost you around $100-150 it would be well worth it as they'll tell you if the vehicle is truly in the state the owner says. Even if you get a car from a dealership with a supposed warranty always pay someone else to review the vehicle because you don't know for sure that the dealer's "checking people" will be honest in their claims on the quality of the vehicle.
Good luck on the search and let us know what you end up with!
More suggestions
If you're into sports how about giving yourself a Christmas present of some golf lessons? That's one sport you can actually play alone or just go to the driving range...subtle advertising of your availability.
Loew's and Home Depot sound good in theory but I wouldn't recommend it, more likely to meet someone else's honey-doer. If you're interested in handy men, maybe volunteer with Habitat for Humanity?
If you are at or near senior status, either join or volunteer at, or join, your local Senior Center. Lots of single, lonely old geezers there. Membership starts at age 50 I believe, volunteering at any age.
If you like bingo, try your local American Legion, many of them around the country have weekly bingo games. Lots of middle age singles go there.
Get active in joining and/or volunteering. You need to be around people.
My Christmas wish for you is that Santa will bring you your soul mate.
suggestions
With accommodations for an extra dog being an issue for you, and since you have done everything within reason to try to locate the owner, I would say a week would be long enough. You said yourself you have all fallen in love, and the longer you wait the harder it will be on her as well because she will start to think of you as her family. I know most of us can’t help but have fears about taking a dog to the pound, but most of them really do excellent work in placing as many animals as possible, and making sure they are spayed/neutered and up to date on shots. If you have to take her there, you many want to consider a donation towards her adoption fee, as having part of the fee prepaid will go a long way in helping someone choose to adopt her. Another option you may consider is contacting a lab rescue group, they will place them in foster homes and thoroughly screen potential new owners to try to find the best home possible. You may want to visit someplace like petfinder.com to find a rescue group near you.
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions! :) NM
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Maybe I can save my furniture and my sanity. LOL
Other suggestions for FTP
www.YouSendIt.com is another solution for e-delivery of large files, for low-volume users.
If you are looking for free FTP -client software, though, check out this link:
http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Software/FTP_freeware/
My suggestions
The poster above is right on it, for one. Slowly start adjusting the speed of your dictation and push yourself a bit, just so you have to work a little harder to keep up.
Learn as many keystroke combinations/shortcuts as possible -- avoid the mouse as much as possible.
Use your word expander: Put words, phrases, chunks of text in it. You should just be gliding along, rarely typing an entire word.
Don't eat/drink/smoke while you are typing - it takes your hands off the keyboard. Only do that during a break.
Most importantly for me is to set a specific goal for that 1 or 2-hour block and concentrate VERY hard on getting it. Push. Reward yourself with a short break when you're done. Then start again. Don't view your day as "8 hours" or "10 hours" ... look at it in 2-hour chunks of time.
Be well rested and eat lightly before you start typing.
Make sure you are comfortable and well supported in your desk and chair situation, lighting, even perhaps a little light music in the background.
Believe that you can do it. YOU CAN!!!
I need suggestions, please (sm)
ham, potato salad - used to always go with a hot dinner, but a few years ago started making potato salad instead and like this idea better - BUT - can't think of a vegetable. Okay to have a hot vegetable with potato salad?? If so, what? Green beans seem like Christmas, corn, no. Can't decide. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks
Any suggestions . . .
for reasonably priced DSL? Suggestions would be appreciated. Verizon charged me 62.17 this month as my introductory offer is over. Does this sound like too much? With the price of gas I need to cut corners somewhere. Thanks in advance.
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