If you are hired as an IC, is it harder to stay with that company?
Posted By: new mt on 2007-11-22
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Do you have to worry about renewing your contract every so often?
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Yes they do, but then they are hired by the company. If you can't
get hired it isn't going to be helpful.
Indian company with base here in USA..stay away..I worked for them once.
I would rather work a lemonade stand before I would work for them again. When you first get the job, you might possibly speak to an American voice. After that you will be dealing with Indian Team Leaders, Indian QA..Indian everything. Not to mention the fact that the Indian QA will tell you that you are wrong on something when you are right. Also, once I had a team leader (Indian, of course)who questioned me on whether or not I knew what headings when into a physical examination...I was transcribing surgery notes. Nonsense like this happened all the time because I would point out the error that QA would make (usually Stedman's to back me).
There are great companies out there who are strictly USA workers, and they are posting on here all the time on the job seeker's board..you just have to keep looking.
Hope that helps! Have a wonderful day!
So part time may make it harder......
I guess I never looked at it that way......working part time as a newbie would not be attractive to many. This really stinks. I am really looing for something to do part time, but have to do so around my first priorities..,family and job #1. This outsourcing to foreign countries also stinks.
SIGH......thx a bunch to you all.
Stay away!
I graduated from their program in October of 2008. The program was ok, but with limited availablity of instrutors. They rarely answered e-mails, and they take too long to score your quizes. Some of their rules were inconsistent as well. They also do not cover any modern transcription equipment, programs or techniques. I wouldn't go as far as to say that the eduction I received was insufficient, but it is nerely impossible to find a job after their program. I passed test after test, only to be told that my educational experience wasn't enough. I know that many people would tell you it is because the employers know that you can't do the job, but I feel it's because they are not familiar with the program. I finally got a job in the end of February, but that was after months of full-time searching. Honestly, this job was a miracle, and I love it. I won't go into it, but I didn't get this job by normal means. The truth is that unless you plan on working in an office for several years to get your foot in the door, USCI is a HUGE waste of your time and money. I ended up with an at-home job, but this is NOT the norm for their graduates.
Stay away from Accutran
If you are looking for a job, stay far away from Accutran. They do not pay on time EVER!!!!
How long to stay with first MT job?
I have a question that I have not really been able to get some sound advice on and was hoping the posters of this board could give me their opions. I would appreciate any views.
The question is how long would you stay with your first (low paying) MT job? I am starting to make some fair money now, but am spending 12+ hours per day to do it, which actually comes out pretty low per hour. While I do appreciate the opportunity to be working right after training, I also feel limited by not having two year's worth of experience yet to try to move on. Most places seem to prefer MTs with at least the two years experience. On the other hand, I am getting very good work experience where I am and do not run out of work. I can't keep up this particular pace forever for what I am earning overall. Would you wait out two years for the experience?
Stay away from wireless...
...they're more trouble than they're worth. The ones I've tried have all had a slight delay before the sound reaches the headphones, which you can imagine is quite frustrating in this line of work.
Get one with a longer cord instead and you won't feel as tethered (though be careful not to roll over it with your chair!)
I recommend finding something with lots of cushioning around the ears for more comfort and better noise cancellation. A good one will cost a lot, but it's well worth it IMO.
stay away from Toth
Stay away from Toth transcription, this husband and wife team don't pay, Read the other posts. Good luck
stay away from Toth
Read all the posts about this company. Stay away from them, they are a scam, you work and work and will never be paid.
Looking and trying to stay hopeful??
Okay,..... so I am within a week of graduating from my Allied Medical Transcription course.. and have already started sending out a couple of resumes to a few different places.. but I'm finding it very discouraging that almost ALL the jobs require 'experience' .... anyone have a couple places that do paid internships? or will possibly give a NEWBIE a chance?? I live in Oklahoma... and to my dismay there are only like two transcription companies in the state.. that email addresses are valid.. I was considering going to the local hospital.. but not only does it pay honestly like 6.00 hr... I would have to pay for childcare... Yikes!? Any help out there?
Looking and trying to stay hopeful??
I am in the same boat. I graduated Dec 2007, no one will hire me due to lack of experience. How am I supposed to get the experience I need if no one will give me a chance. I am close to giving up now.
From some of the posts I've seen on here I'd stay away....
apparently the pay sucks....and you don't even get paid for at least the first month that you work there. It can be hard finding a job as a newbie, but it can be done. You just have to apply/submit your resume everywhere, even if they say they want experience and if they will let you test for them, take the test. That's how I got my job and I'm making 8 cpl. And I got hired by a national before I was even finised with school by a company that said they wanted two years of experience. Don't sell yourself short by just taking anything that comes along.
I'd stay away as they charge you to test, a big
red flag that they are probably not legit.
stay away from focus infomatics (sm)
there are many many posts about focus infomatics on this board. it is not a positive experience.
You don't renew your agreement. You just stay with them until
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Total scam, stay away - sm
unless you have money to burn. Lots and lots of people have been taken by them unfortunately. I hope you have not paid them any money because if so you will never see it again.
Newbies are getting hired.
I didn't have to pay big bucks for my education and did just fine. I also got hired with a national right out of school and have never had trouble getting offers and the best pay.
If you haven't been to one of the other schools, you should keep your opinions to yourself! What's right for you may not be for someone else and vice versa. I get so tired of hearing crap like yours.
I could create what you call a top-notch school in no time. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to do it either.
They test them and if they do well, they get hired like anyone else.
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Reason you can't get hired...
"... six were willing to test me. Four of them I failed and the other two I quit in the middle of the test because they had ESLs in there and we weren't even trained on ESL dictations."
This is what happens when you don't go to Andrews or M-TEC. You choose a "cheaper" school, and you get a poor education. Companies who "require" 2 years' experience WILL TEST AND HIRED brand-new grads from Andrews and M-Tec because they know they have a full, complete, and excellent education. They will not even allow people from schools advertised on the back of matchbooks and in TV Guide to take their employment test, because they KNOW they do not have the proper education and training!
No. I wait until I'm actually hired. No need for it beforehand. nm
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if you are hired by co, usually employee...sm
If you are *hired by a company* then usually you are an employee...it is when you score your own accounts that you can become an IC....but I'd brush up on typing skills, no offense.....it's truly detail- oriented work and you misspelled pursue and independent...and again, no offense....
if she has no training, she will not be hired
nm
HELP! Where can new grad get hired?
I am a new graduate ... where can i get a job? All the posts want yrs experience! how do i get any ... if no one will hire me?
Thanks for any help
That would be a clue to stay away if you can't find anything publically on them. nm
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I went to a community college and was hired
by a national one month before I graduated. You do not have to go to one of the "Big 3" to find a job in this business. You have to keep applying, keep sending in resumes, and TEST, TEST, TEST. That's what I did. It's not easy, but it can be done if you stick with it.
IThey might have hired you for a new account. Call! sm
You didn't mention the name of the company. It could be they have a new account and it's not off the ground yet. It was a month after I was hired before I actually started working. That was two years ago and I'm seldom out of work. I'm still on that same account.
Didn't she sell it, or just your company to an offshore company. The woman
has a screw loose.
Is your internship paid? Can you stay with it and get experienced and apply for an at-home job
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LOL, Thanks! ..... when I'm ready to be hired, wouldja pass the word around?? LOL ... nm
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I've hired from that school before and have found CAIs SM
graduates to be severely undertrained with lack of basic skills. I've hired several of their graduates and none of them worked out. That's how I know it's not a quality school.
M-TEC or Andrews have track records of their grads being hired.
If you want to learn about the industry, get a solid education, and see employers knocking themselves out to hire you, go with one of them. I attended M-Tec and literally had dozens of offers to test and several job offers before I even graduated. Some people get tired of hearing those names coming up time and time again, but the facts speak for themselves! Check out their web sites. Good luck! :-)
You have to PAY EXTRA for the internship and they don't teach you enough to get hired. (see messa
Much better to go to Andrews School or M-TEC, the top two schools in the country. Almost guaranteed to be able to get a job afterwards, and most companies will waive the 2-years' experience requirement if you are an Andrews or M-Tec grad.
If you don't know the difference between loosing and losing, you're not going to get hired any
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No, the woman who owns this company can't transcribe herself, much less run a company.
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Any company that charges anything to work is not a reputable company. However,
if a company offers a job and requires that you have a certain pedal and offers to provide it and then take it out of say your first paycheck or couple of paychecks, then that is acceptable.
My belief is that companies that charge you for software or anything else is trying to make money off of you.
While $11.95 isn't much, figure that amount times 10 or 20 or 100 and what do you come up with? Smells like a scam to me.
company was sold so they have no company to hire you after graduation!
They are not a reputable school and I went there so I should know. Even when they did have Trans. Relief Services they never answered my email about employment upon graduation.
MT is not worth it anymore. Would not worry about past. Did need to give ID to be hired though.
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Andrews, MTEC, and CareerStep produce graduates that are regularly hired. NM
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Why are companies telling people they are hired but they need to wait in line for available mentors.
from their company. How long should someone wait? Is it even worth taking the test?
What company?
Hello, I recently read your comment and was wondering what company that was that hired you as a newbie? I'm just starting out and I need to work at home to be with my son. Would you mind networking with me! Nice to meet you..e-mail me at kennyandjenny@hotmail.com
thanks! Sincerely, Jennifer Hokanson
Company Name
Can you say what company you are working for?
company
this company is advertising on the job board - Dictate4Me
not sure if this is the same company, but...
A friend of mine who was recently looking for a job had been talking to a lady from New England Transcription (not sure if this is the same company??) and had been given the total run around from them.
First the lady said that they paid 9 cents a line to start, then when my friend got the contract (which she had to call the lady for 5 or 6 times), it said 5 cents a line. Then she never heard from the lady who hired her until the day before she was supposed to begin the job. Then, the day she was supposed to start, she was told there was no work, and she should call back in a few weeks.
Needless to say, she didn't take this job, but it wasted about 3 weeks (from the time she accepted the position until they told her it was no longer available due to lack of work).
If this is the same company, maybe ask for the contract up front and review it carefully. Ask what the work load is like and all that good stuff. Hopefully it's not the same place.
Company
May I ask which company you are working for?
Take the job if you like the company
I would take the job if the company seems professional. The pay rate seems reasonable for someone coming out of school. If the people you are working for are helpful, you will gain tremendous experience. If they will help you with further training, then you are off to a good start. Taking a job with a higher rate and being in over your head might not be the best path. Just my opinion.
What company is it?
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If you like the company then I would
You can load it and it will have (I think) 2 operating systems but XP should work fine. Not a lot of places are compatible with Vista yet that I know of.
Why do you think that the company you
work for should bend over backwards to give you the account you want? I am sure other MTs are on that account, so would it be fair to take someone off just because you want it???? If you want to find another job fine, but don't think that just because you want certain accounts you will get them. We all take the bad with the good.
About the company
Yes i surely can. It is a SCAM company, STAY AWAY from it if you don't want to lose your money and time.
What is the company name
What is the company name?
I have yet to see a company that uses MAC. The
programs used are not compatible.
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