MTIA Apprenticeship
Posted By: Wendy Rubsam on 2007-09-15
In Reply to:
I recently obtained my RMT. I am currently working doing clinic transcription and I am thinking about applying for the MTIA Apprenticeship program. I am needing some opinions that will help me make up my mind. Please feel free to email directly if you want. I would love to hear from someone who is currently doing the apprenticeship program or anyone that has any thoughts on. Thanks in advance.
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
the MTIA is trying to replace them and probably will
own primarily outsourcing companies and have big money to support the organization and pay more to lobby in Washington.
apprenticeship
I'm trying to get some experience and nobody's willing to hire newbies. Any companies that will do apprentice or interns?
Unfortunately most of the apprenticeship
programs will only accept you if you attended an AHDI-approved school. For the rest of us, we are on our own! 
I am not saying all apprenticeship programs are scams.
I am saying that in the not-so-distant past, the companies that wanted you to pay up front for training or wanted you to pay to work for them were scams. Now, I think that companies have found more effective way to defray the cost of, or in some cases profit from, hiring and training new grads. Yes, it is costly and time consuming to get a new grad up to speed as far as quality and productivity, but in the past, having a mentor train and provide feedback and guidance to a new grad was SOP. It was seen as an investment for the future in a way. Now some companies want you to pay them or to work for free during your "apprenticeship" which has made it even more difficult for the uniformed or the desperate to discern which companies are scams.
I have previously been advised not to post names of companies that do hire newbies because they get inundated with applicants that either do not have the requisite training or have no training at all. Also, most companies,especially the small to mid-size services, only hire grads intermittently because of the resources required to train them.
The very best resource for who hires graduates of your education program is the school itself. Often companies or MTSOs that have an opening or two for a trainee will contact the schools they know provide quality graduates ready to enter the job market. www.transcriptionresource.com has a rather comprehensive list of companies with links to many of their websites.
|
