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I took over a week for them to get back to me, and I took a test over the phone, but that was SM

Posted By: just me on 2007-04-10
In Reply to: Spheris - Angie

several years ago. Dont now about now.


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I sent it in the first day, heard back in a few days, took the test and started last week. sm
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I took a test for a company and my foot pedal would work with the test and I had keep going back
over the dictation time and again to get all the words because I couldnt stop and start it by the foot pedal.  What can I do about this.
Phoenix Medcom- Another apply a few months back, ask to take a test and never heard back??
I applied a month or two ago, received an email from someone asking if I would take a test and said she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week, so I hurried and immediately and told her I'd love to take the test. I never heard back. I waiting thinking she went on vacation and would contact me when she got back to do the test but nothing...very strange..Just wondered if this happened to anyone else.
Does OSi do a phone test?

I applied with them, tested, and had a phone call from them that I need to return. I'm so nervous, though, because I am really not great on the phone and collapse under pressure.  I do a great job as an MT because I'm just here at home on my computer, and all of my talking is usually via e-mail and IM, which doesn't give me a chance to get nervous. Any heads up to what it's like with OSi would be appreciated.


IMO I would rather have a verbal test on the phone
than one of those two hour web tests before you talk to the company only to find out you passed with flying colors and they offer you 6 cents a line.

DRC did. Printed out a copy of the test and took it over the phone w/the
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Does Diskriter still have a 2 hour test over the phone? sm
I remember last year when I was interested in them the HR lady said the test was over the phone and was 2 hours long?! Is it still like that?
Yep, oral test. They ask you questions over the phone.
Seems weird to me.
I got 100% on the phone interview, and thought the on-line test was easy, but they still didn't h
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I did the test last week...
didn't have any difficulty filling in the blanks, but still haven't heard back from them. I thought the test stated that we would hear back no matter what the decision, so maybe they are still going through everything??
I took their test last week,

and I passed it. They sent me back an email saying that they were on a hiring freeze because of changes that were being made to the company. The email also said they would keep my resume on file. I know that companies make lots of excuses for not hiring new MTs, but this doesn't sound like one. 


I don't think so. I got my test back from them but not from two others. I think it is becoming
common. I was embarrassed when I saw my test and made sure that the next one I took was better.

Why would you think it was Keystrokes? No one mentioned a company. I was thinking of an entirely different company. Just curious.
Well, I never heard back from them, even after I sent tons of e-mail and personal phone calls
And, I am sure I nearly aced the test. Very simple.
They test for ortho but not others but I was just told that starting this week, everyone will have t
I love it there too!
Thanks - I sent my test back Friday
so hopefully I'll hear back by the end of next week. I'm really interested in doing clinic notes so I hoping I did well enough.
So good to know! I took the test but have not heard back

I don't think I will take the job, but do you know if they even hire ICs?  Just so I know!  TXs


Wish WMX would go back to 35 hour week for FT. (sm)

Seemed like we all had enough work to go around.  Perhaps this is more beneficial for the company, but the 35 hours makes it easier to work in a part time job if necessary due to low work. 


Last time my accounts were low for a while I picked up an IC gig, then like a fool when OT was offered on my main job I quit the IC job and went for the bucks.  That lasted about 2 weeks.  Will not be that foolish again.


took their test and waited for eight months to hear back from then sm
by that time I had two different jobs.  No the eight months is NOT A TYPO
I did apply, heard back, and took the first part of their test. nm
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Anyone heard back in the last week from Precyse,
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I am slow this week too...I am sure it will pick back up...
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Tested last week, have not heard back either.
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Guess I didn't. Heard back within a day of taking the test, sm
but that was several years ago.  Depends on current recruiters, I guess. 
Medware's test hold people back from applying.
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Even so, it is very unprofessional and rude to not reply back when someone took the time to test!!

Still haven't heard back from JLG recruiter ...it's been a week!
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I worked for them PT awhile back -- 20 hours a week min., I think. nm

Anyone know how long it takes to hear back from Prescyse after taking the test?
Will they get back to you?
Yippee - I finally got a call back and did the test files last night
I hate sent another email and even called, but she was out of office. When recruiter sent the test files, she apologized for being out of touch and even thanked me for my persistence.

By the way, I was not talking about Medscribe at all. It is a totally different company.

Wish me luck!
Tested with TT last week. Does anyone know how long it usually takes for them to response back.
I need a job...yesterday... I've been applying like crazy but cannot find anything worth taking.  I'm getting pretty desperate but still not enough to take 3 cpl for VR but check back next week LOL
I just heard back that I passed the test and they asked when it was convenient to contact me by phon
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Geez, it's so illegal to hold back a last week's check, regardless of the reason.
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Not true anymore. That changed this past week when they decided that to go back to having PT MT'
I talked to my Coordinator who told me that during their meetings this past week at the office, it was decided that some PT positions were necessary.

The decision for FT only was officially made in September but they have decided to go back to having some PT MT's fo fill the needs of some accounts. There will be definite standards to be met, including must have one weekend shift and must do a minimum of 2500 lines a week, but there will be some PT MT's hired when needed. She did say that the number of positions would be limited, trying to fill accounts with FT MT's first.

This came directly from one of the Coordinators who was in the meetings last week.


Usually a spelling test, a punctuation test, and maybe 3-6 test files to do. Sometimes done using
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Worked on C-phone for 10 years with 1 phone line
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C-phone - I purchased a c-phone from someone in Oklahoma but never got it. *sm*
First she told me her grandmother died. Then she told me she mailed it. Then she told me her daughter was having chemotherapy. Call me naive, but I thought she was sincere and cannot imagine anyone using their daughter as an excuse. If this is the same person from Oklahoma, I sure would like to know about it because now I want my money back.
I don't have a second phone line ... cable modem for the internet, regular line for my C-phone.

If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.


And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert.  Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling.  :-)



Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)


 


 


Just took the test myself. No actual dictation to transcribe. Just a written test.
For 13 cpl, I might do it if the dictators aren't a total horror.
I just took the test today - thought it was a great test of MT skills.
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Full time with Transtech is both. 40 hours per week and 5500 lines per week.
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Nope .. email on 1/18 promised "within the next week." Here we are, 1 week later and no info.
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The minimum is 5500 per week, NOT 6600 per week. I think you made a typo. :)
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There is no written test. Must have been a different company. I took their ortho test sm
and it was easy. You had to know your terminology but it was easy to understand AND I used my foot pedal.
C-Phone = Connexions Phone

Dictaphone is a company and one of their many products is a C-Phone.


http://shop.dictaphone.com/productDetail.asp?id=27


i clear over 800 a week, 40/week; 30+ year experience. (nm)
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Is the test through mttest.com a timed test? Thanks. nm


I worked in QA for Transcending back in 2000-2001. They were paying hourly back then. SM

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.


Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 


There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 


I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 


Good luck to you!


I get my paycheck every week - that is enough for me! Happy MT week everybody! nm
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I got laid off for MT Week. Happy MT Week to me!
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Good last week - Slow this week.
I hope this is not an indication of things to come.  I am getting 1,200 lines a day but it is taking me all day to do it.  We seem to be out of work from 9-12 every day this week.  Hope things pick up after Labor Day.
Has everyone heard back from Keystrokes yet regarding the email we received a while back?
Just wandering why I haven't heard any response yet.