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Anybody ever tested recently with Transportal?

Posted By: Crazy! on 2009-07-02
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I tested with Transportal and on the VERY beginning of the test (you know, the REALLY easy questions) it said I failed and suggested that I go to their partner company Career Step to better my transcription skills and try again.  I went back and reviewed and looked up my answers and every single one was right.  So, I went and took another test for them and AGAIN it did the same thing.  Anybody else every experience this?


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Min./day x $ divided by 8

They paid a min of 0.20 and a max of 1.20. So I bid for 1.20. Figured if I typed 80 min a day that was 12/hour.
I also tested for them recently... took about a week to hear from them. nm

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Recently tested for MxSecure and just wondering if anyone can tell me how long it usually takes (sm)

to hear back from them.  I felt like I did pretty good on the test, but I was just wondering if it usually takes a while for them to get back to you?


TIA!



I tested and did not pass and tested again 6 months later and passed. I think that more and more s
companies are testing MTs for various reasons.

You say that you work for them and keep posting. Why do you stay if you are so unhappy? I love my account and lead but it seems that you do not like being at KS at all.

Different strokes for different folks. Why continuously post compaints without doing anything about it?


transportal

 


Darn it.  They want to give me an account.  What is bad about them may I ask??


TransPortal ?

This company is located in North Carolina and I did check archives but could find nothing regarding them.  Are they a new company?  Anyone with info please fill me in on pros and cons, please.  Thank you.


TransPortal
Anyone have any info on them or currently work there?
TransPortal

Did anyone apply and hear back from TransPortal?  I was contacted for an interview and never heard back.  I was just wondering if anyone else may have had luck with them.


Thanks,



Transportal

Got an email that they liked my resume, would call the next on the phone.  Never got the phone call.  I called the following day and left a message for the recruiter that I was still interested in talking to her.  She called back the next day and told me they had nothing available but would keep my resume on file. 


Another total waste of my time. 


 


Transportal in NC
Does anyone actually work for or formerly worked for Transportal who would be willing to give me some information on how they are to work for.  I have seen the posts, but nothing concrete, just a message to avoid them but no reasons given.  I am looking for an IC job, and they sound promising.  If you prefer not to post, just send info to my email. 
Transportal
I am working for them now and I really like them.
Transportal

Are you referring to Transportal?  I work for them.  They ROCK. :)


 


 


Transportal
I agree with the last post - call and chat with the recruiter.  She is very nice and has had this issue going on for awhile.  I had a friend who tested (seasoned MT) and failed!  She was so devastated, but called and talked to the gal and is now working there.  I took the test - knowing the answer to the one question that was messed up, so I ended up passing and now I too work there!!!  Guess they should get that little issue figured out!!!  Good company though!
Transportal
I agree with the last post - call and chat with the recruiter.  She is very nice and has had this issue going on for awhile.  I had a friend who tested (seasoned MT) and failed!  She was so devastated, but called and talked to the gal and is now working there.  I took the test - knowing the answer to the one question that was messed up, so I ended up passing and now I too work there!!!  Guess they should get that little issue figured out!!!  Good company though!
TransPortal
You heard???? And you are passing on rumors??? Shame on you. TransPortal is a wonderful company to work for. Not all supervisors assign work late at night and they should not be hassling or sending rude emails. If one is it is an isolated incident and I am sure it has been taken care of. The platform works great if you have enough memory in your computer, people can easily do 1200+ lines per day once they get the hang of it, which does take 2-3 weeks. To work there for 1 week and then spread lies is shameful. You are missing a great work opportunity if you do not check them out.
transportal
Transportal has IC status with or without taxes.  Excellent company (I think).  Full time status is considered 1200 lines minimum.
TransPortal

Hello,


I have a phone interview coming up with TransPortal, and I was wondering if any TransPortal MTs out there could comment on the Scribe platform.  Has it gotten any better to deal with? I have read some past posts both here and on the CS forum about it being a pain in the neck.  All other info on the company seems to be great aside from the platform.  I'm hoping to hear that they have the bugs worked out by now...  (especially assuming I have Vista!)


Any info, pros, or cons will be appreciated!


Thanks! 


Any information about TransPortal

I have a phone interview with transportal today and I was wondering if anyone knows of that company or works for them. I would appreciate any information.


Thanks!


Transportal-Anyone work for them

I have just been offered a position with Transportal but I do not know anything about them.  I am not finding much on this board about them either.  If anyone can tell me about them I would really appreciate it.


Thanks so much


How long have you been w/Transportal

Thanks for responding.  How long have you been with them?  Do they pay by check, direct deposit, or do you have to get a prepaid VISA card? 


Thanks again


 


Transportal info
To save you guys from hoping too much, I was contacted and I was offered 7 cpl with possible 7-1/2 for employee status.  Such as slap in the face!  17 years experience and that was all I was offered!  Hopefully, that will let you know what they are going to offer you.  It is a huge account and sounded awesome but not awesome enough for slave wages. 
Has anyone heard from TransPortal? nm
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I work for TransPortal...
I am currently working with this company. While I have only been employed with them for about a month, I am very happy so far...good accounts, the platform is Scribe, and QA is very helpful. Hope this helps!
Transportal hiring. sm
To those working for Transportal or with knowledge, can you email me the address to send my resume?  I did look on their website but does not seem to be an address for resumes?
Transportal Question
Does anyone have any information on the benefits that Transportal (in NC) provides its employees? Insurance? Paid vacations? Etc.? Thanks!
Whey do you say to stay away from TransPortal?
Did you work for them or know something about them?
transportal is a great company
I have worked for them for about five months now and have had nothing but a GREAT experience with them. I am a seasoned Transcriptionist and have been on many platforms. Scribe is great, not perfect by any means, but it is great. It is fast. It is based in MSWord. No, you may not get paid for demographics, but how hard is it to enter the name and MR# and DOS??? Come on? Some accounts you check the schedule, find the name, and it automatically loads. How tough is that?

If you have any experience in working in Word you can work in Scribe w/o any problem whatsoever. I can EASILY Make my line counts in short order.

Also, regarding line counts, they are there, always have been. Unless you have a job that goes to QA then you have to wait a bit to see that line count come in, but I have never been cheated out of any lines that I can assure you.

The one and ONLY thing I had to complain about was being on QA for a long period of time unnecessarily.

Of all the companies that I have worked for, and trust me I have tried a lot of them, this one by far beats them all. The management staff are awesome, the dictators are awesome, the platform is great. What more can I say.
United, Archivus, Transportal. sm

I did look up prior posts on these companies but did not find the answer to this question.  Do any of these companies hire IC?  Do these companies base full time on line count or hours if they have employee status?


Thanks for your help.  I am trying to narrow down my search.  I appreciate it.


Reposting about TransPortal - Please reply

I'm reposting this in hopes that someone will see this and give me updated info on TransPortal. I have tested with them and should hear back from them this week.  I've read everything in the archives, but I was hoping for some updated info about their platform.  My other post got buried under the MDI and T posts.  (Not knocking their posts, by the way, as I feel sorry for what they are dealing with...)


Anyways, here is what I originally posted a while back... 


 


Hello,


I have a phone interview coming up with TransPortal, and I was wondering if any TransPortal MTs out there could comment on the Scribe platform.  Has it gotten any better to deal with? I have read some past posts both here **** about it being a pain in the neck.  All other info on the company seems to be great aside from the platform.  I'm hoping to hear that they have the bugs worked out by now...  (especially assuming I have Vista!)



 


Any info, pros, or cons will be appreciated!



 


Thanks! 


phone interview with transportal tomorrow.... sm

If anyone has any info before I interview tomorrow, please let me know.  My biggest concer is the platform.  I can type 1200 lpd with no problems, but every platform I've tried in the past seems to produce nothing but dinking around all day instead of $$$.  Hopefully this one will be different.  The test doctors sounded great.


Thanks much,


Debbie


Has anyone heard of TransPortal Transcription in North Carolina? (sm)

Any info about steady accounts, benefits, flexible scheduling from anyone who may work there would be greatly appreciated.  TIA.


Any recent info on TransPortal? I have searched archives
And I haven't really found much.  Any recent experience, good or bad, would be great.  Thanks!
I tested
I tested, passed and so on, but by the time they called me it was 3 weeks later and I had already taken another job. They just seem a little slow to respond.
You must have tested with JLG

I tested with them too.

The test tape was definitely horrible, and actually isn't a fair way to test new MTs for any account.  I had 2-3 blanks left in the end.  All they told me about my results was that they were below their levels for employment. 


I asked to see what mistakes I made and asked what my actual score on the test was, and they never got back to me with any results after I emailed them several times about it. 


The test itself consisted of 20 questions and 10 reports to type.  Who would think 2-3 blanks out of all of that would result in a no hire.  I guess you have to be able to do that tape without any blanks or questions at all in order to pass and get a job with them.


Has anyone here ever tested for or
Just curious.  TIA
I tested the other day too. sm
I talked to Amy, the VP, yesterday and she said that she had about 5 or 6 MTs who had submitted tests and she had sent them to her lead MT to be graded.  She said that hiring as a priority so it wouldn't be too long before we hear anything.
I tested with them. sm
They offered me a job, 2nd and 3rd shift only, but never told me what they were offering as far as pay.  When I asked her, she said that the first 2 weeks were 12.00 an hour and then after that your cpl pay would be based on speed and accuracy.  It sounded like a trap to me.  I wouldn't go with them if I were you.  You could waste all that time training with them and then they could tell you that your speed and accuracy aren't up to par and only pay you 5 cpl. 
Tested with them

I have not worked for them, but I tested for them.  The test job I did was about 50 65-character lines long and at the per page rate they were offering it came out to  4 cents per line.  Don't know if all the jobs would have been that long, but I got the feeling they would all be pretty long.  For long reports you're better off getting paid by the line.  So you've got to be careful in comparing your current pay to what they're offering. 


A C-phone is a phone that you dial into a digital dictation system with.  It has a footpedal and you can plug a headset in, and you just transcribe while listening to the dictation right over the phone line.  It works real well.


Hope this helps somewhat.


 


Has anyone who tested with
Just curious......  11 cpl was sounding pretty good.  Oh well.... 
It has been a while since I tested and they may have

have changed files, but I didn't have any problem hearing them.  Typically companies will put some of their worst dictation as tests, especially if they have a high percentage of ESLs.  In the past there was a problem with scoring of the tests and it would mark things wrong that weren't, but I think that is fixed now. 


I tested for them . . .
I called first, they told me to do 3.
Sorry, should be I tested with them......
NM
I tested with them
approximately 2 weeks ago and have heard nothing back yet.
Have you tested yet?
I was not able to get the transcription portion of the test to cooperate. It was a blank box when I tried to type and I could not control the volume or speed. Is this typical?
Yes I have tested.
I didn't have that problem. I got an e-mail from them this morning with a preliminary interview form to fill out, and then they would schedule an interview.
I tested with them
I tested with them and never heard anything back, I got a 90% on the test, they said you had to have at least an 80%. When I e-mailed about a job, I never heard back from them. Weird and Rude.
I tested with them,
did great on the test, they asked me what my preferred schedule was, I answered, never heard back.

Sigh.

For those of you who tested for this
I am using my GearPlayer 4 and also have Sound Blaster but have had a very difficult time hearing the testreport1.wav file.  The dictator is either turning away from the microphone or whatever he is using to dictate into or is a mumbler...sometimes he comes through loud and clear.  I am having to leave too many blanks to do very well on this one.  Would like to hear if it is just my old ears, or if everyone else is having a problem hearing this one too.  Thanks.
I tested for them
If this is the Sten-Tel from Springfield, Massachusetts, then that is the company I tested for.

They tout how they will send you a detailed analysis of your test--just like you would receive from their QA service. However, I never received anything from them in that regard.

I did get an offer, however. But I did not even consider them because they never sent what they promised. I figured that if they were that sloppy with their testing procedures and broke that promise that they'd be even worse with their employment procedures. It could only get worse.

I tested with Axolotol - sm
At the time I tested I had 16 years experience .... INTENSIVE experience, and I am not tooting my own horn but I rarely make mistakes and I will research a blank to death before I finally give up on it ...and guess what - they told me I didn't have enough experience.