would not say success = job with national
Posted By: nm on 2006-07-04
In Reply to: Could you be more specific? - ?
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and you are one of the success stories...sm
And congratulations to you!! But for every online success story, there are dozens of bad stories regarding meeting men/women online.
Another success story
I graduated from CS in 2005 and was hired by a national company right away. That was 3 years ago. I tested for my CMT as soon as I reached my 2 year anniversary. I have had a great experience with working and I owe it to my training through Career Step. I think you will be fine!
Good luck to you with your studies!!!
Good for you!!! I wish you much success in your new chapter.
There are a lot of positive people on this site that can offer loads of advice, all of whom started off as "newbies" (I dislike that phrase). We all start off somewhere. I do think it is harder now a days with hospitals outsourcing, but definitely NOT impossible. I would leave you my e-mail address in case you have any questions but that is not allowed, and I never insert it because I'm afraid I'll get hate mail later on from some of the disgruntled MT's :).
Good luck!!
Typing speed is no guarantee of success
as an MT. If you haven't had any MT training, you will fail rather spectacularly. Get some training. Get GOOD training, not some matchbook-cover school. Andrews, M-Tec, Career Step--those schools will provide the training that will get you a job. Don't try to cut corners with a cheap school. If you get the right training, and if you have the talent for the job, you will not lack for work.
So you can't do the ESL doctors? Your skills may be what's limiting your success
Your skills may be limiting you. Do some work on them. See if you can bring your work up to the level necessary to do well. You can do it!
Career Step Success Story
Hello. Well, I graduated from Career Step in December and now have a job that I love. I thought the course was great. I still go to the Graduates Forum on Career Step everyday, and people are getting jobs everyday, even with all the negative chat that you hear on MTStars and MTChat. I know that the price was right for me and that I had a job a month after graduation. I know there was a slow hiring period in the last few months b/c of holiday, New Year, and whatnot. I don't know what negative talk has gone on about the Career Step program. I try to stay away from all the negative comments on the board - they are just depressing - lol. I hope whatever you choose works out for you. The only thing that scared me was all the EMR talk right when I graduated. It still scares me, because I love this job. But, it is pretty much out of my hands. Right now I am a happy working MT.
Good Luck :)
I'd also rather hear from a successful employer with a good plan for continued success
Success breeds success. When I look for a leader or mentor or someone to give me advice, I look for someone who has been successful. That person will have to be able to identify his or herself and have verifiable proof to back up their claims. There are ways to do that. Blind posts on message boards don't do it.
National?
I am very new to all this- what is a national?
What are the top national companies
that have good reputations as employers? I'd like to contact them to see what schools they see as "top notch". TIA! -Anne :)
When I got my first IC job with a lesser known national - sm
I took and passed the test in Feb. 02, told I had a job....got the contracts a week or so later, but did not hear from them or actually start until 04/29/02. So don't give up just yet, sometimes it takes a while for them to do whatever it is they got to do. I never followed up with them since I found another job while I was waiting for them to get off their butts. So in the end I worked for both jobs. But you really should follow-up. Send an email to your contact and if you don't hear from then in a few days then call and inquire. It cannot hurt. Good Luck!
National MTSO
I really have no experience with a national MTSO, but I think it depends on where the MTSO is based. So, if the MTSO is based in the US, you would be paid dollars, and if it is based in the UK, you might be paid in EURO, and so forth and so on. However, while checking around on the net, I found a company based in the Philippines. You might want to check them out, the web address is, www.peoplesupport.com. I don't know what their money would translte to US currency, but it may be easier for you.
Does everyone here work for national companies?
I work for my local hospital at home and find this website very useful when I need help with a word that I cannot find in my books.
It just seems like most people work from their homes for national companies. Is that the case?
RE: Does everyone here work for national companies?
I see you did not get an answer to your very innocent question, so here is only one response, I work full-time for a local hospital (40 hours weekly), and work part-time in my home for a national company (20 hours/week).
I work for a national but I have worked...sm
for MTSOs. I am actually waiting to start work with a national for the first time. I am not sure how different this is going to be compared to working for a MTSO.
PHNS - a lessor known national - sm
They were a good first company then. Things changed a lot with them though, its been over a year and a half since I last worked for them.
I work for a national. Never took any classes. Got
on-the-job training at local hospital. It can be done. It may not be the norm, but it CAN BE DONE. 
IC or employee? There's no way you're working for a national
and making more than 8 cpl in your second year of MT. 6 is an OK rate for a newbie who's still wet behind the ears. You've never seen her resume or school transcripts. How can you tell her she's worth as much or nearly as much as experienced MTs? I won't nitpick, but newbies need serious feedback.
local hospital versus national
Hi,
I was with a national company and, like you, only did about 1200 lines per day at 7.5 cpl with 18 months in. I felt like I was never going to make the big bucks!
In May, I resigned from the national co. and went to work locally. After a short 1-month in-house training, I am working from home again. This hospital has some great normals to use and yesterday, I did 2200 lines!!!!!
Finding a good fit is the hardest part. Thankfully, I think I have found mine!!!!! Just keep in mind that there are other options out there. GOOD LUCK!!!!
7 years with national - 30 hours per week -
a little over 16 thousand - Good luck making 25 thousand plus - not easy at all to make especially if you type a lot of ESL.
Most of the larger national teaching hospitals...
with residents (on 6-week rotation), PAs and RNs and ESL docs are already using VR for at least the last 4 years. Don't delude yourself. About 80% of my work was VR for multiple national accts...The only straight transcription I got recently was the worst of the ESLs or mumble-mouth English speaking docs... I've done acute care, basic 4s (op notes, consults, H&Ps, ERs) procedure notes, multiple specialities, rare clinic notes for one company for 14 years.
It would be nice to work for one small docs ofc with a coupla docs in it and do just clinic notes again...Those were the days!  Cat
part time with a national will put you at the end of the line for work sm
and give you the crappiest accounts. Only way to work for a national is full time. Good luck!
i work for one national, one smaller, and have one private account.
i am always busy, but never without some type of work :). I make a great line count with MQ. I was statutory but effective January 1st, I am an employee. Not sure how that will work out. My secondary account is with a smaller company I have been with for over ten years, and I have a small private account that pays very well but low volume.
I only wanted to work for a local company, not a large national. So... (sm)
I went to Google Local. Clicked on "find businesses". I then put in medical transcription in the "what" box and my City, State in the "where" box. I sent a resume and cover letter to every hit that looked good to me. I also went through the yellow pages and sent a resume and cover letter to every listing. I sent out more than 50 resumes.
I had about fifteen calls back. I had five offers. I accepted one. I have been getting calls ever since. In fact, I left my first position about three months after I got it in order to go to another company that was offering me more per line plus incentive. Yes, I accepted 7.5 cents from my first employer and she worked me to death and had some serious, shall we say, boundary issues. But I got my feet wet and in the door and was on to better things within months. I have been at my current position for about seven months, and it was a position I got based on yet another one of those resumes that had been received, kept on a desk somewhere, and acted upon months after I had sent them out.
One thing that no fewer than five of the fifteen callbacks said was that they were very impressed by my resume and my cover letter. One lady said that she was amazed by the number of people applying for jobs as medical language specialists who cannot even manage to put out a resume and cover letter that is free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes. So, do a professional resume and cover letter and make sure it's PERFECT.
I love my job and feel very blessed that I never experienced some of the awful newbie troubles I have read about here. If you have any questions or anything, feel free to contact me off the list or reply here and I will get back to you ASAP.
Elle
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