Expecially if you can try to impress strangers with a bogus IQ score
Posted By: nm on 2006-03-13
In Reply to: COMMON SENSE far more important in life...nm - book smarts very important but
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I am again relying on the kindess of strangers. I have so often asked for help on this board and have not been disappointed. In fact, I have been overhwhelmed with kind responses.
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I have IT and have 2 questions however:
Anyone familiar with IT knows expansions are by 1st letter. How do I handle duplicates such as: has been working, had been working etc. Is each chosen indvidually by line or do you put something different in to differentiate?
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Please! I do not give out personal information to strangers on the Internet!!
Yes they do and they try to impress lol
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she does try to impress
She does try to impress everyone. When she has a man come over she gets even louder than usual. I was tempted one day to ask if she'd like me to put out a sign on Main Street to let everyone know and just get it over with already. She has made comments that she would like to be more like I am. I have been divorced for 7 years and am happy about it. I explained to her that I have been at it a lot longer than she has and have come to terms with it. I am much happier divorced than I ever was married. And I don't feel the need to parade men around in order prove something. Good insight--you are right. I know it has a lot to do with her husband not wanting to be married to her anymore. I don't see how he stood it for as long as he did. Lord bless him. I don't think she is on drugs but some days it feels like she will drive me to it.
What she said is so bogus!...sm
I didn't see this show, but $30-40 K to START is such a crock! In cities around 2 hours from where I live, an MT might make that working directly for a hospital, inhouse. However, I'm pretty sure that hospitals do not hire newbies to make that kind of money - they ask for varying years of experience. I shudder to think what those newbies who eagerly sign up for MT courses as a result of this swill will be making a couple of years from now. 1 cpl?
The only way that this "expert" assertion could possibly hold any water is if one contends that working at home for an MT service is probably the only career where you actually are worse off financially if you do a really good job... So, dear Virginia, you really can make 30-40K to start. All you have to do is mindlessly whip off as much production as possible and don't waste time checking your work. But anyone with a conscience-driven work ethic, who consistently produces well-researched, quality work ethic is the poor schmuck getting trampled on by this once-wonderful industry. No wonder we are getting out in droves - that's why they need to go on TV to rope in new recruits...
then its probably bogus
Does not impress me
NM
and "Don't Impress Much"!
Is Transcription Bogus
I am very interested in becoming a MT. I am wondering if anyone knows if MT from home is real or another at home scram. Also are schools such as Career Step scams or do they give you real training and help you get a MT job from home. I appreciate any feedback.
Where is MQQA Trying To Impress Anyone?
I have been reading all the posts and MQQA seems to be very civil and well informed to me.
The ones who are attacking her, on the other hand, are resorting to childishness. I would be ashamed to admit that I had over 20 years in this business and conducted myself in such a manner.
Why are you attacking MQQA? She has said nothing that sounds arrogant or condescendig to me. You, on the other hand....
Not bogus, there are good courses..
Some are scams. Career Step is not a scam. However, really nobody makes decent money starting out. I used to train MTs, some from Career Step. Most made close to minimum wage at first. They were also limited in the number of reports and work types at first and hours worked. They had the basics but didn't have the overall experience so it takes a lot of time and patience from both the trainer/mentor and the MT. But these MTs are the ones that usually do well. If you start out with a national and are just handed a job and not given a trainer/mentor per se, you will not learn much and will likely fail the QA reviews but hopefully they will give good feedback and you can learn that way. Newbies don't usually do well with that kind of situation in my experience. So finding a company that is willing to take on trainees and mentor them as a first job is a good idea. The pay is also not like it used to be and even after training if you have a job with a national paying 6 cpl you would only be making around 9 an hour based on 150 lph. In my experience I have rarely seen a newbie getting over 150 lph accurately until maybe after a good six months of heavy mentoring/close monitoring by an experienced MT. JMO. Hope that helps.
Agree! When I was recruiting, CMT did not impress me
I strictly went by test scores and experience as usual. It also did not make a difference in the pay rates I offered. In fact, I often offered more to the MTs without CMTs if they did better on the test and had more experience.
The "credentialing authority" is bogus, sm
and b.s. It is a private organization, looking for mo' money, mo' money, with no standing of any kind. They will not get a dime from me, for anything. They are anti-MT to say the least.
and those who don't feel any need to impress anyone because they aren't pathological liars
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Yep, the bogus ransom letter was way amateurish and a dead giveaway
Her handwriting samples have always come back as "suspicious" by the forensic handwriting experts.
Yep, she did it.
Nice marketing too..a bogus statement about US MTs to discredit the competition nm
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score
You need a copy of your report. Whatever bad stuff you can pay, pay it and get a receipt. But let a medical collection be the last priority. Do not let anyone else pull your credit report. Pay everything you have on time. Dispute things that are incorrect. Email me. This will take a while.
SCORE
Since you say you are just starting out and you are a small operation, I assume that you do not have a lot of capital to invest up front. When I was getting started in my business I learned of a FREE service that you can consult with and get all the answers you need. It is called SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives). They are a volunteer organization and specialize in consulting small businesses. Look in your local yellow pages or Google SCORE and find a local office. Unless you have money to invest in an accountant right now, this is what I recommend. It was the best decision I ever made.
My score was 31--
I guessed on quite a few (not the US or England, though) and even got some of the cities right. I didn't think I'd get even half. Cool game!
Well, I have a 99% or higher QA score.
I make between $45K and $48K doing this.
NEver been in trouble for QA. Never lost a job for QA. Have been hired for every single job I have ever applied for.
Anyone I've ever worked for has been sad to see me go. People I work for now are very happy with me. I make good money and have a good QA score.
All with no PROPER EDUCATION but just on-the-job training.
HOORAYYYYYYYY!!!!!
I love my QA score and even like my QAs
I am trying to prove a point to "I-type-fast" girl.
QA score formula
Can anyone post formula for figuring QA score. Thanks!
CMT pass score
Can anyone tell me what is the score required to pass the CMT exam?
What was your QA score for acct?How long did
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Monthly audits = QA score. sm
Usually companies audit your work monthly. They will pull 5 or 10 reports you have transcribed and do a random QA check on them. If you have critical errors, they will deduct whole points, noncritical errors usually a half point.
If you total QA score is below 98% three or more times in a row, some companies will do what they can to help you, put you back on QA review for a while so every report will go to QA. Other companies may just fire you or let you go.
Is this the answer your were looking for?
That's funny because after we went through CCCS our score went up significantly. nm
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The older the account, the higher the score . . .
so they are the ones to keep. :)
Where's best place to obtain credit score?
I know I see Free Credit Report all the time on the internet, but they are not really free, right? Don't you have to sign some sort of protection coverage and pay a monthly fee? Is the best place straight through the Equifax, TransUnion and that other place? (Can't think of the name of it right now). I'm in the market for a new house and want to make sure everything is okay. Any advise? Thanks in Advance.
Execuscribe On-Line Test Score
No, they didn't tell me what score was passing before I tested. They invited me to test based on my resume. I don't know about having to use a C-phone once hired but no I did not need one to test.
How is QA score measured? Is there a standard scale? sm
Is it per report? Is by the number of characters in the report? I am guessing that a missed comma is counted differently than a wrongly used medical term...
Thanks for any help!
Maybe your experience and a high test score - sm
is perceived as a *threat* - i.e., that they may soon need to pay you closer to what you're WORTH, in order to retain your services. Maybe some MTSOs think they can make more of a profit by hiring the less-skilled and "bringing them up to speed", so to speak, within the company while at the same time keeping their wages ridiculously low. Hmmmmm....
I believe the original poster is the one doing the scoring, and she is SHOCKED at how low the score
is for the MT, and she doesn't even know what to say to the MT under comments. I can certainly relate - lately, its abysmal in my company. How, oh how, do these MTs get hired? To me, that is the BIGGEST mystery.
I have heard the test is a joke and you don't need a high score
basically because they're desperate and need to keep up with TAT. Now this is just what I've heard but by the looks of what is being hired, I truly believe this!
Cleaning up after one's self and cleaning up after strangers are two different issues
Nice try though
Actually, NOT having open credit accounts hurts your FICO score.
I closed my credit cards 10 years ago and paid them all off. All I have left is my student loan and my mortgage, which are both paid on time every month. You'd think that would show me as a responsible consumer because I pay cash for everything and don't live off of credit. Instead, my FICO score stinks now because my available credit to my used credit shows as maxed out. It's complete bunk. People are rewarded for using credit while responsible people who pay cash are punished by this FICO system. I have a 4% interest rate on my mortgage, but the credit union tried to milk me at 12% interest on a car loan when they advertised 5% because of my FICO score. My only option is to open up some credit cards or something, but then that shows as excessive inquiries or too much new credit.
Amen! A great IQ score is wonderful, but there are some dummies in the MT world!
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Talk about anger...anyone who posts a high IQ score is a pathological liar.....
So, are you saying that no MTs can have high IQ scores?? Just because you don't, we all have to be pathological liars? Sorry.
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