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MTTest testing sites - MTPA


Posted: Dec 09, 2014

It has been my experience that any time a company requests that you go to their testing site to complete a test, it seems to be a waste of time in screening candidates.  The audio files are extremely hard to hear and half the time the audio skips.  There should be a better way to screen applicants than by using these testing sites.  It is a no-win situation.  You spend two hours doing their screening and trying to transcribe reports that are not the work type that they are even hiring for.  If a company requires me to log in to one those MTTest sites, I am going to pass.  My time is too valuable.

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I too, so dislike those testing sites. Even when I feel like I have "nailed" testing, I get nothing. This work is so client specific. Just don't know WHAT they are looking for. Just completed Amphion - left no blanks, understood report completely yet was told "Not a good fit" Seriously???


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