Common sense...
Posted By: bip on 2007-11-07
In Reply to: also - bip
...says that if you want to do MT you need to take a class. It's not that hard to figure out. I don't need to get over myself nor am I not being nice. I gave the OP great advice that will help her in the long run. You can tell me all the mistakes I make on here but it's just you wanting to bring ME down, which it will not do. It just makes you look bad. You don't magically know the rules for MT by being a nurse. They are 2 separate things. I did say that it would be a good in house job. If a nurse wants to work from home for a national, they will have to take classes. Otherwise--the ads would say: Calling all nurses! No experience needed! You just need to want it bad enough and we'll hire you! Have you ever seen an ad like that? From what I hear, recruiters say that they will not test those who haven't gone to a good school (nurse or not) because it is a waste of time. Why? Because they fail. You may not like the truth, but it outweighs encouraging people to try and set them up to fail. That would end up totally discouraging them. Encourage them the right way with the right advice.
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Not all, but it is common
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Good luck!
Most common MT companies
I'm sure that someone out there can easily answer my question. I am a newer MT with only 6 months of experience and am trying to get on with an at home company. It has been suggested for me to just apply to the major companies out there and see what happens. I have already applied at Focus Informatics, but other than that I don't know which other companies to try.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Most common or major?
The nationals include Medquist and Spheris.
Other larger companies that you might consider: Webmedx and Accuscribe.
Personally, I would just look on the job board here and start applying all the way down the line.
It's a common problem, the no experience thing--
you may want to try to find someone to mentor you through that. If you have really good skills, another thing is to do an internship. Some MTSO's (usually the smaller ones) are willing to trade off the time it takes to walk a newbie through the rest of their training, if the newbie is willing to work for less. I know I see newbies all the time who want their 6-8 cpl, but all I can say is I find experienced people with good skills who offer to work for that, so why would an MTSO pay a newbie that? This is all part of the unfortunate decline of the MT trade...
Thank you. That makes sense. nm
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Makes sense
That makes sense too. One of my places to go to relax is the library. I love walking around larger libraries and just thumbing through books that look interesting. I used to like reading all of the back issues of nursing magazines in my college's medical library.
I really appreciate your response. This is looking good for me!
Thanks, that makes sense to me
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Yes, this does make sense...
in the fact that I see the differences between these two sentences. The problem is, I don't know what to do with that information.
Make Sense?
Does this make sense?
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You make the most sense of many, many people
On these boards! What you say is what I have found to be true, anyway. My problem is getting enough work without getting too much work. Right now, I do acute care part time through a woman who does the local hospital overflow. But, I'm her only part-timer, so some days there's a satisfactory amount of work, and other times I might go a couple weeks without any.
I'd love to get one single doctor and do all their stuff, that seems like a good amount. LOL Now, I just have to get off my tookus and find it!
Um. What? Your message doesn't make any sense.
Why should any MTSO be expected to hire someone who is clearly unqualified. Why should someone who broadcasts his or her poor skills in the initial contact be given "equal opportunity" with someone who really is qualified? It takes time and money to test and set up a new MT for work. That's time away from earning and money out of the MTSO's pocket. You think she should give that clearly unqualified and incompetent applicant a job? Why? It's not going to work out, as any experienced MTSO can tell you. You can tell from the initial contact when you've got someone who will not be able to do the work, no matter how much you try to help her or how many chances you give. It's not a matter of just being new, it's a matter of wheter the applicant is qualified, regardless of level of experience. New people with good skills will know enough not to make egregious errors in their communication with potential employers. Those people get hired. Those newbies get the opportunities. They deserve to get the opportunities because they can do the job. The unqualified, poorly trained newbies make their incompetence clear very early on, and MTSOs have learned to identify and eliminate them "right off the bat" (or bet, or whatever you think it is). Get down off your high horse and understand the needs of the person doing the hiring. Your message makes it clear you know nothing about the MT business or how to run any business. No one deserves a job just because he or she wants one. An applicant is going to have to show some potential before an MTSO is going to take a chance and make a job offer.
Well now I'm confused. She doesn't even make sense. nm
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That makes sense. When you have hundreds of applicants though
Sometimes I've been known to look at the resumes and choose some based on the training I knew they had gone through. I've also been hesitant to even test some when they told me they had gone through a course that took three months and they had actually transcribed at least 10 reports!!! I tend to put those on the bottom of the stack. I've never had to reach that far down in the stack.
Seriously, don't you use any kind of screening or use anything you see on their resumes to decide which ones you want to test, because if you have hundreds you can't possibly test all of them!
This makes sense, good logic....nm
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