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Cover letter

Posted By: mt on 2008-09-21
In Reply to: cover letter-need feedback/help - ETNMT

I have been offered 7 jobs in the past year so take my advice for what you will.

The sentence: Please consider this letter as my formal application presenting my background, education, and experience. I would take it out. Your resume outlines your background, education, etc. This sentence is just fluff.

Rather than saying over 4 years, make it 5 years. Lots of companies want 5 years, and if it is only a matter of months difference, it won't matter.

I would include more types of imaging and take out some of the medical terminology, labwork, etc. They are more interested in your radiology background and expect you to know anatomy, etc.

This sentence: I am highLY self-motivated and produce excellent work, both in quality and quantity. Anybody can say that, and it sounds liked canned text. Do you have a QA score to back it up? How many reports do you average an hour? More specifics than a general statement.

This sentence: May I arrange an interview to further discuss my qualifications? Don't ask. Tell them I am very interested in this position and look forward to hearing from you. Then give them a phone number and email to contact you.

Good luck





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You really don't need a cover letter.
Send your resume. We are smart enough to figure out the rest. Most times a cover letter heads straight for the trash. Who has time to read it? Unless a company specifically asks for a cover letter, don't bother.
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cover letter-need feedback/help

Hi all-


My hospital recently outsourced its rad transcription.  I was able to get on the with the company that took over, but ended up taking a 50% cut in pay!  I am in the process of sending out resumes in hopes to find PT/prn (preferably IC) work to supplement.  While I can write a rocking resume, I am absolutely terrible with cover letters.  I have drawn one up (based on examples from the net) and was hoping that I could get some feedback (content, format, grammar, etc) from my fellow MTs.  Any help would be great!  I am fully open to any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.  Please see the letter below and thanks in advance for your help!


 


Dear Employer:


In response to the open medical Transcriptionist position with your organization, I am enclosing a resume for your review. Please consider this letter as my formal application presenting my background, education, and experience.


I have over 4 years experience in radiology transcription; and I am well versed in the areas of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, labwork, and surgical procedures.


I have considerable experience in transcribing all types of medical imaging procedures, including Interventional Radiology and Mammography.  I am high self-motivated and produce excellent work, both in quality and quantity.


May I arrange an interview to further discuss my qualifications? I am available for an interview at a mutually convenient time.


Thank you for your time and consideration.


Sincerely,


Encl.


 


 


Resume and cover letter question. sm

This may be a dumb question, but the last time I applied for a job and sent a resume was 10 years ago, before everything was done online.  (I remember the test tape being mailed to me, and I had to mail it back within... 48 hours, I think it was.  Seems so archaic now!  LOL)


My question is, when you are asked to cut and paste your resume, do you *just* put in your resume, or do you put a cover letter *and* your resume? 


Also, do you worry about the formatting of your resume if the formatting looks messed up after it's been pasted in? 


Thank you!


Please don't panic. Read the cover letter with the rates.
This may not be the final choices, TT CEO and HR are working really hard to find other alternatives. You guys should mention that here along with panicking so that everyone who reads these boards gets the full picture. These may not be all the choices. Also, I just came from another company and their UHC cost more than even these expensive ones, and I was stuck with it. Their rates went up too and so, it is not just us, it is the insurance companies.
Please, wait and see what happens before you all decide in your mind there are no alternatives. There are, we just don't know what they are yet, and the boss did say in all fairness they are working on it.
If there is a typo in your resume or cover letter or answers to their questionairre, they automatica
I thought this is harsh but then I went to work for another company in a recruiting position, and we do the same thing! If someone cannot proof their resume and correspondence with a potential employer, what will their transcription look like? Not nice, but it is true.
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I would call and email Human Resources and confirm that they are aware of your last date of work with the company. This way, if they have heard that info from your supervisor, they will start the ball rolling.
I cover

myself with 2 services.  One I'm an employee with excellent health benefits, fantastic PTO, and other perks.  The other I'm an IC.  I work about 45 hours a week.


I'm in central PA but am single so living off of $30k wouldn't work for me.


I wouldn't even consider an hourly gig.


cover that
My contract is only for 1 year. It renews each year. Once upon a time, I had my own service and contracted with the government for a while. They teach you very quickly how to guarantee you're a contractor :)

I think it's horrendous the posts like the one above who don't care that they are in an illegal situation as long as it doesn't rock their boat. THis is why I have no faith that this JOB will ever be elevated to a profession.
Your bank should cover you for the
fraudulent use of your card. In the meantime, please file a police report on your daughter's friend. The ATM should have photos of her. Good luck to you--that's awful.
YUCK, ought to about cover it.
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Cover yourself w/that arbitration page!
You should not sign that arbitration agreement. That's making you give away your legal rights and allowing them to get away with breaking the law should they choose to do so.
However, if you MUST sign it, put CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT above or below your signature. That way, you are covered if it ever comes up that you have a suit against them; they aren't giving you a choice in the matter, and if you don't agree to their robbery/theft of your rights, you won't have a job.
Not all hospitals cover all specialities.

  I don't think that was a silly question to ask. 


The reason they charge a fee is to cover
cost of equipment.  Most don't charge a monthly fee, but a deposit that is spread out.  When you return equipment in good working order you get  a refund.  There are some people who have accepted a position, gotten the equipment, and then immediately quit without returning equipment, so this is a way for company to try to eliminate that.  Some companies will send you a foot pedal or a C-phone at no charge, but you are expected to return them if employment terminates. 
You cover for each other in times of crisis? sm
I did not even realize we were allowed to talk to the other regular MTs, even though team leads have told me that other MTs have been in the same boat and I am not alone.  I have often wished I could talk to the other MTs that I actually have something in common with.  I only talk to the team leads, so I know they cover for each other, but as far as talking to a non-team lead for support or questions or friendship I thought they tried to prevent that?  Now I really feel out of the loop. 
If an IC there was no taxes taken out to cover unemployment insurance
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Cover letters! Brings back memories!

I remember preparing my very first resume...fancy stock paper with watermark, with the obligatory short-n-sweet cover letter included, even a reference sheet if I was feeling ballsy, all mailed in a manilla envelope the same size as the paper so there were no creases!  Now everything is done electronic and it's SO impersonal!


I'm such an old fart.    


My husband got a raise to cover his increase, the lucky bum. nm
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very true... MT wages won't cover holiday work and sm
grocery stores, nurses, those people usually VOLUNTEER and are not forced into their shifts. Some people want to work on holidays and get DOUBLE or TRIPLE pay, not 9 cents a line to do an ESL that makes you $10 an hour. And what does Obama have to do with it?
What you need personally to cover your bills should be the deciding factor. And what you MIGHT earn
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Worked for an MT service that had a mistake on the cover of Employee Manual (sm)
That is bad. 
Yeah, out of work this a.m. ALREADY -- Transtech overhires to cover their rears!
We have been running out of work consistently for the past several months.  You have to work every hour of the day to get your lines, always asked to FLEX your schedule, yet they DEMAND that you work your schedule!  LOL  They have really overhired within the past couple of weeks and we have NO WORK AT ALL NOW.  Very hard to get your line count or make a DECENT PAYCHECK now.  Hope that helps.
in Michigan it IS illegal to publish a check that you do not have the funds to cover
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since I didn't pay into social security as an IC, I started a retirement plan to cover me.
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RE: Not MQ-Letter

I have to agree with you on this--why does everyone need to be called personally and I never thought about that, was the call being recorded?? But would they not have to tell you that??


 


Something just does not feel right about this. The packet is coming out in Oct, our all the packets different,after you get the packet will you have to sign something to agree to that pay rate to continue with your job, and is all this heading to a merger with Spheris at the first of the year. When I was called , there were no answers to any of my questions and honestly I think the person on the phone was not prepared for any questions, just to ask you if you got the packet.


 


Some of the offices that have been closed so far have surprised me, especially Warminster and Atlanta, and now Houston and an office in Ohio is closing. I hope it is not the one in Columbus, that is a great office.


 


Where is this all going???  And all I want to do is work, if there was any!!!


yes really. it was in my letter.
under 'highlights of the plan':
#6: "opportunity for paid time off for part-time employees and PTO of up to 18 days per year for full-time employees.."
Next letter
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This letter should be followed up by a letter to
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No letter here! nm

Can we talk - about this MQ letter!

The first sentence that sent me tossing my cookies was "...we would like to thank you for your continued service and support.  we know the key to our success is the people who work so hard for our customers every day".


 


PLEEZE......I have not had one centilla of a raise in over 5 years!  So we know what that sentence was all above.  Your thanks and $1.25 will get me a bad cup of coffee at Huddle House.


 


Next - that's the whole reason for this letter if you ask me - the little ditty from WINSTON AND STRAWN, attorneys at law.


 


They wanted MQ employees to cough up DOCUMENTS (document preservation).  Of course the attorneys for the MTs' class action suite are also searching out those very same documents.   How quaint.


 


And that graph about "over the past several months with your help and input we have been working on developing a pay plan and comprehensive benefit program that will enable us to set the standard in the industry."  Nowhere in that whole paragraph did it mention statutory MTs.  It addressed them in the salutation of the letter, but never in the paragraph about the pay plan of benefits if you notice.  and lord help us if MQ is going to set the STANDARD for the industry (which they have single-handedly devastated all by themselves).  They did not make profit through solid  business means, they made their profit off the BENEFITS we as MTs made previously and which they through smoke and mirrors merely shifted over to their profit column.  That didn't take a genius - just underhanded business.  I could do that too, take what used to be benefits and change it to the profit monies. 


 


And in this letter they further have the nerve to claim:  "While we believe that the claims raised by the three transcriptionists appear to lack merit..."  How about the thousands of other MTs who also believe it to be so, and the hospitals that back them up?


 


I have to go pour me a drink. 


No. The only letter I have received is the
September 2nd letter announcing the upcoming Rewards Plan.

Yes, if ASR pay is being reduced that is a pay cut. It is A pay cut. The above post made implication that there was a pay cut across the board, "... the pay cut ...".

I just don't see a need to be careless with that kind of assumption.

I have received nothing about the ASR reduction. However, I do not do ASR and it may have only gone to those MTs.

Watch out. SBC just sent me a letter saying
they were switching me from unlimited LD to 10 cents a minute.  So I called and canceled my LD with them.  Back to onesuite.com for now.
Isn't there some way an "anonymous" letter
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in the Toledo Blade myself. They told me that the advertising managers will have to review my article and decide if they will let me do it. I don't know what it will cost to do it, but I am sure going to try!!!!

I will send it to Lou Dobbs now.
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I second that emotion..to the letter!
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LETTER TO CONGRESS
Here's a copy of what I sent. I encourage us all to write more letters to save our jobs. Feel free to copy any parts and use to send to them.

Please stop the outsourcing of our medical records to third world
countries for cheap labor to be done by people that cannot fully speak the
English language and are not qualified to transcribe the health
information that may be outsourced to them. This is done solely because
the american company that is outsourcing is cheap and saving money at the
cost of the patient's health due to the inconsistency and inaccuracy of
their ability to accurately transcribe the English language and are just
transcribing anything that they think might be the proper English or
medical term. This puts the patient's health in jeopardy and high risk of
having the inaccurate information such as inaccurate medicines, inaccurate
medical conditions and the obvious accessibility of the patient's full
name, address, social security number and other very private information
at the hands of the unscrupulous overseas companies with no laws governing
their privacy laws and no punishable by law of any misuse of this
information that could be for sale to any one and by anyone in the third
world countries that have access to the information. There is no
remediation ability for any illegal use of any of the information that is
transmitted via electronic voice, computer or fax machine to these
overseas companies and therefore the very use of this kind of service by
an overseas company should be highly illegal and should not be allowed
considering that there are many American companies that do have to adhere
to the HIPPA privacy law and all the legal ramifications for protecting
every patient's private information and medical information.

This is a very serious matter and affects every American as there are many
unscrupulous businesses operating on the very information that we as
American companies are held of the highest regard to protect all patient
information and are held responsible for any misconduct that may occur
with the releasing of any of the patient's information whether it be
social security numbers, health information or personal information that
can be gleened from any medical record.

We Americans take pride in our work and we hold the patient's medical
record to the utmost respect and privacy. There is no way to control the
overseas companies and they cannot be held responsible for selling any
patient information.

Thank you.


The name is Axolotl. The last letter is an L, not an I.

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May I borrow this when needed. It says everything that needs to be!!!
She would have found it with or without the letter! (nm)
That's what!