This is happening a lot because of
Posted By: see message on 2006-08-27
In Reply to: Brand New. Just finished school. - Lisa
the "false advertising" done by MT schools.
WORK AT HOME, MAKE $40-50K per year
It is NOT the reality. Sure it can be done, but not for someone right out of school. To be the best MT, especially at-home MT, you should start out in an office, then to a hospital, then to a work-at-home company. You really do need EXPERIENCE and on-the-job experience just cannot be matched. You will find that you learn far more from experienced co-workers than you did in school. IMO.
But I do wish you good luck. I hope things work out for you.
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What I see happening is . . .
. . . you promoting your company, the "staffing school," with sly innuendo and fatuous ideas gussied up as economic speculation and "fun" idea-tossing.
You aren't discussing economics at all! You're trying to plant notions in prospective students' heads that this "staffing school" is a good bargain, when in fact it costs MORE! It costs more than Andrews and MTec!
You have presented it as the only salvation for students who are strapped for cash by insisting that new MT graduates can never get a job without internship! This is simply untrue.
You make statements about graduates of other schools, about the piles of resumes you read and reject, and about the allegedly poor quality of other transcription programs, but you're unwilling to identify yourself or the company for which you work.
Here is the truth. There are lots of rotten schools out there, but there are some excellent ones, too. Grads of those excellent programs get jobs with national companies every day and they do quite well for themselves.
If your company isn't interested in hiring them, then all you can say is YOUR company isn't interested in hiring them. So what?
Why would anyone want to work for YOUR company? Who are YOU that readers here would want to take your advice?
Why would anyone want to take a course that only prepared them at a basic level? Then PAY for the privilege of an internship? Then risk not getting a job, or -- worse -- having to take a job at heaven-only-knows what rate of pay because they're still not qualified to get a job anywhere else! And then have to pay even more for the privilege of taking the rest of the training, which other schools would have provided already, and still not know if it would be enough to get them a job elsewhere?
I would not want to do that.
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