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Just finished applying to 35 different jobs Posted By: Janice on 2009-05-06 In Reply to: I am so fed up with my current company that I just can't take it anymore! I decided to spend the time I normally would be working to applying to any jobs. This is the best site to find EVERY transcription company whether they are hiring or not the list is endless and I just copy and paste my resume on the site if they didn't have testing. This is the site http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/websites/index2.php?username=mtjobfind&page=1. I found it in archives here and it's such a great tool! I did my best today and put myself out there, I once thought to just get out of MT but I think I'm going to just go all in as I just work when I feel, pretty much PT but now I'm going in headfirst full-time, really going to make the most of this education I paid for, why not! So here's hoping javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',''); Complete Discussion Below: marks the location of current message within thread Just finished applying to 35 different jobs - Janice 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 Applying for jobs Do you tell them how much money you want? Sometimes if you do that they do NOT respond -- you may be asking too much. I have applied for five jobs and have heard from all five. I have been applying for jobs and I would certainly like to know the name of this employer! I never want to work there. I absolutely would contact the labor board in the state you live and then notify your supervisor of your intent. I would type an e-mail to your sup and copy yourself that says your complete side of the story, just like you explained here, and then ask for an explanation as to how they are withholding lines from your paycheck. Keep all correspondances!!!!!! Also, trying and print the IM if you can! Is it getting harder for anyone to get jobs now with all the people applying for them. How does this seem to be going for most MTs looking for jobs. What seems to be the one factor that gets MTs a job before all the other 100 or so looking for the same job and what are the most desired qualities today that companies are looking for. I wish people would just stop applying for these low paying jobs! That would force them to pay better or do it themselves. When I did QA for 3 years I was paid $20 an hour in addition to a line rate of 4 cents a line. I often ended up typing part of the report because there were so many errors. I would never work for 3 cents a line doing anything! Just my 2 cents... Advice needed on applying for jobs due to quit I had hoped I would not be in the process of looking for another job but here I am. My question is this. I left my last job of 3 years as I lost my father about a month ago whose health began declining on Thanksgiving. My employer was well aware of this as a doctor's excuse to excuse my absence was unacceptable and our doctor had to fill out the FMLA paperwork which still ended up not being good enough. Go figure. I called my supervisor the morning that I found my father and told her what had happened and I could not work. She said that was fine and went on to explain that the company gives three day bereavement pay which honestly was the furthest thing from my mind. She then asked me if I thought I needed 3 days off and had I not been in shock, I probably would have let her have it. Hello, this was my dad not my dog. How heartless can you be? She said with work volumes (which by the way, they were telling other girls to flex their shift due to low work volume) they could not have me out three days. I was soo upset after her asking me that that I sent an email to human resources and the head of the company and boy was I reamed out by human resources for doing this as she said it was none of the head of the company's business. Why not? It is one of his employees who said this. In sending my resume and filling out applications, when they ask why I left this heartless company, what do I say? Am i being unreasonable and maybe should have stayed with this company? I'm questioning myself alot lately but still not sleeping well. I have filed for unemployment. I live in Pennsylvania and I pray that I get it because we have a 9 month old daughter and we need the income. I know if I have to appeal it, I will not hesitate. Forgive me for rambling, maybe I just needed to vent, I don't know. Just needed an opinion or advice. feel free to e-mail me. I finished mine in 3 months so it is possible. It all depends on the skills you already have and learning capabilities. I just finished testing and I thought the dictators were very clear and easy to transcribe for, but bottom line for me is rate of compensation. I am so tired of being nickel and dimed to death, if you know what I mean. I am tired of giving 120% and getting squat in return. Oh, sorry off topic. Anyway, I tested and thought it was easy. I hope this helps you. I just finished. Been working since 6 AM. nm Just finished my shift You probably walk on water also. My accounts are always busy, never finished I have more than enough work, if they are over-staffed it must not be on all accounts when you are finished laughing, pls read I strongly disagree with you. To say all MTs are highly skilled is to demean the whole group. There are roughly -- very roughly -- two categories of MTs. There are those who do it because they can stay home and breed their chihuahas and herd their babies. Then there are those who absolutely love the field of medicine and work for that reason. I began in-house and never dreamed that I would eventually work from home. The MTs who are willing to research Hiszysrinksigo's syndrome instead of blanking it SHOULD be paid more per line than the puppie brokers. Just finished with my shift and I made a little over $147 for the 8 hrs and 15 minutes I worked today, mostly VR and I work at 4 cents a line. When I finished with school, I couldn't find a job as an MT.. so I was hired doing billing..it is worth a shot dont' ya think it will show in the finished product of a quality MT? x Cherrypicking is when you work from a pool of jobs and being able to reject the worst jobs to those , Monster Jobs and Career Builder usually have a few path jobs. nm s Don't think any do except for those in-house jobs. Some QA jobs are paid hourly. nm s They didn't take our jobs, QT gave them our jobs. The account is now back in the hands of US MTs, or will be in just a couple of weeks. Are MTs that are looking for jobs finding good jobs right now with everyone looking or is it getting more difficult to find a good job. I am most interested in jobs for experienced MTs with more than 10 years service. I wonder if it is better to put a resume on or just keeping applying or what is the best way to go about this. Have you tried applying for unemployment compensation while looking for a job? It might help to alleviate some of the pressure if you have bills to pay and might prevent you from accepting the wrong job out of desperation. Good luck to you. Try applying elsewhere. I have 8 yrs exp. and most / thanks, I was considering applying :-) Are you applying to MD-IT? All I know is I also am looking for info on this company, as they my clinic has outsourced all of our in-house transcription to them. I have an opportunity to work for them, transcribing the same physicians/therapists that I do now. However, they seem to not be too forthcoming with information. I am a little leary to sign on with them, having been in-house for 14 years. It is a little scary to me. I do not want to sign on and then miss the opportunity for unemployment/COBRA for a while and just take a break and move on. I don't know what to do here. Many sleepless nights I'll tell ya that much. Why are you considering applying to OSI? ? Won't be applying there. Why do companies even allow this? It only allows the lazy MTs to make more money, leaving the MTs that will actually do all types of work by all kinds of dictators to struggle to make their line counts. This is why I am currently looking for a new job. I am tired of the cherrypickers on my account who refuse to work the ESL docs. You know what? I don't like them any more than you do, but I still do it. Why? Because it is my job! Sorry, just makes me so angry! applying I think you might have better luck sending resumes to companies who are NOT posting ads on the Job Seekers board. Looking at the number of hits their ads are getting those companies are probably already getting flooded with resumes. Applying MT Because they know we seasoned MTs won't just settle. Too bad we can't organize all MTs to not settle. applying MT I believe that transcription companies and owners do not want to pay for real transcription quality and are willing to hire the ones that will accept the 0.3 cents for QA and the 0.7 and up to 0.825 per cpl. Where is the real appreciation for the excellent transcriptionists? It seems that Transcriptionist is viewed more as a money maker. I saw that and thought about applying. Sylvan that's never been used, couldn't get it to load onto the computer, and couldn't get a refund for. I wouldn't want to use them again. I noticed using that software is one of the requirements. I was thinking about applying I work every sunday now, and I would really like my weekends free. I also don't like the software too much, and I have to pay LD. Thanks for all the info you gave me. Anyone with exp w/ PMT in Kentucky? Am considering applying there. Thanks! nm xx Can anyone tell me anything about TTS? I am thinking about applying Can anyone tell me anything about TTS? I am thinking about applying? Thank you. I appreciate your reply. Just how aggressive should one be in applying (sm) I have applied/tested for several companies. So far only one has contacted me and, to be honest, they're not my first or second choice. I did email one of the contact persons listed, was told they'd received a large number of resumes and were working through them. Should I be sending followup emails to everyone? Phone calls? At what point does one become an annoyance? I thought about applying there, but I think 6 cpl If you go to their website, you see what they charge their clients, so they're making a bundle off of their ICs. Applying online.... On www.mditrans.net there is a link on the left that says apply online. I don't think there is a link to apply online at the other site, just email/phone numbers if you wish to contact them. Not Worth Applying With I tested with them last year and spent a very long time on the test to get it just right, but they never felt the need to even respond to me with good or bad feedback. Just ignored me completely, like you should do them. I feel no response in either direction to an applicant says a lot for a company. Maybe if they read this they will learn some business decent procedures and treat their applicants better. I was thinking of applying Do they pay more than 3 cpl for editing? I need to make some money and that's the best offer I've seen so far and it's pitiful from what I've read on the boards. I am applying for Transtech What is the report limit until you are released from QA at Transtech? I need to think about how to finagle it with my present job. Is it 5 or 10? Thank you. It depends on how many others are applying. I think it took about 2-1/2 days to hear back after testing. Evidently testing goes through a normal QA process, only it is last in line, so it may take a while based on how many others are applying. applying to spheris Does anyone know the name of the person in charge of recruiting new applicants, or the one who reviews application for new grads? I thought about applying to MDI but I have a friend who works for them and although she loves them and says the people are great, she also says the work is low a lot of time time. (She is on WAV.) She has another source of income so it is no big deal for her. Sadly, I am not in that situation. I am the breadwinner and so needed to go where there was steady work. She did say she loved them, though. I'm on about the 5th week after applying I am just now starting to hear back from them. Good luck! Considering applying at DSG, any comments from MTs working there right now about how you like it. Try applying at Smartmed.... The last I knew, they were hiring for a large teaching hospital. The platform is okay but they pay on time and have benefits. But I think they hire first as IC and then you can go to employee status. What position are you applying for? nm x Applying on job board When click on job opportunities on job board, do you click Apply underneath the Google ad? It always says I don't have the right to view that page. Just wondering if my resume is getting sent to where I want it to go. Thanks. Question for those of you applying Maybe I'm not as good as I thought I was, but I'm not getting a lot of responses on resumes I'm sending out. I've got almost 30 years in the field, I've never taken a test that I didn't ace, but still the responses are few and far between. Is it that they're so overwhelmed by responses that they're hiring from the first 10 emails they get, or are my years of typing literally anything no longer a commodity? Look at all the jobs on the jobs boards. You can find a job and won't have to apply for unemployment. You would be surprised how many companies need qualified MTs! Go get 'em and get 'em now! Don't wait until the 11th hour. Too many needs to put your hat in the unemployment slot. What they lost is our gain. Was thinking about applying at Transcend. I've heard a lot about VR and the VR platform. Are all their accounts on this? I was thinking about applying for this company myself as an SE but I had been reading some bad things about it and got scared off. However, I have read some very good things about MQ too!