testing for employment
Posted By: MKJ on 2007-05-25
In Reply to: I happens to all of us, not just new MTs - what I do
Previous post said, if you test for a national and fail they make you wait 6 months before testing again.
Which national companies offer employment based on pre-employment testing results? ???
One reason I wanted to get into MT is that you get paid for exactly what and how much you DO and I hoped that my skills would speak for themselves when I tested for a position. But if every company wants to know what school you graduated from and how many years of experience you have, then I might as well have a liberal arts degree.
For those of us new, all this "3 years", "5 years" experience stuff is going to leave us dead in the water if we don't get an in somewhere.
Thanks for any reply.
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I find it fishy that someone would contact you for employment instead of the other way around.
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Many companies will waive their 2-years' experience requirement for Andrews or M-Tec grads, but they know the education at Penn Foster, AHP, and many others is just not good enough and they will not let grads of those schools even take their employment tests. I'm not saying you CAN'T get a job, just that it will unfortunately be much harder, as evidenced by the many, many people who have taken these courses and posted online that they can't get a job.
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Start testing and see what happens ...
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In testing I don't see an issue either way, but in
real dictation q.d. should always be daily. Putting q.d. after a medication is where there was an issue that caused it to be changed to daily to start with.
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I would search several companies that have online testing
There are plenty of them. You do not have to have years of experience transcribing, but will have an opportunity to show them what you are capable of.
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