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Need your opinion: does this sound like a temporary or permanent job - Thanks

Posted: Jul 31, 2010

Need everyone’s opinion. Been seeing a lot of posts here lately about MTs being hired by an individual or small company only to work less than a month or two and run out of work. These companies or individuals probably got a short-term assignment. They knew that there would only be work for so long, but they never tell the new hire that their job will be temporary.

So, there is another job opening on the Job Seeker’s Board from what looks like a small company.

Going by the following information, what do you all think is the possibility that this job will run out soon and is really only temporary, not permanent.

1. Very short ad – no detailed information.

2. Only company name. No contact name – not even an Email address in the ad. You have to reply by the blind MTStars Email reply.

3. Their website lists their office address as a UPS Mail Box Store – they will not even publish their address – which I assume is someone’s private home.

4. They offer transcription for the medical, legal, and corporate communities. “All medical reports, letters, memos, legal pleadings, deposition summaries, as well as speeches or meetings can be dictated via handheld recorder or any touch-tone phone from anywhere in the world.” Makes me wonder how much medical they actually do and if I have a question, will anyone there even know what I am talking about.

5. They do not update their website – still use AAMT instead of AHDI.

So what do you think? Is it worth the time of sending in a resume, probably take a test, go through the interview, set up their formats, only to have the job end in a few weeks? Do you think this is a temporary or a permanent job offer?

If it is only temporary, I wish they would be up-front about it and let us know so we don’t waste our time. There might well be MTs who are looking for a little extra temporary work because of a bill coming up or whatever who will not apply because they do not want something permanent.

Thanks.

UPS mailbox? No company name? I wouldnt - touch it - sounds like a SCAM. nm

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Is this the hand one or am I looking at the wrong one? - sm

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Because the web site for the hand one does indeed have a "real" address in Phoenix, AZ. Or are there multiple little ads on there?

Clarification - Thanks

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That’s the one. Maybe I found a different website. Does your website show a Chandler Boulevard address? That is a UPS Store which offers PO Boxes.

I know the Phoenix, Arizona area. Have 2 sons who went to college there. They moved so often that I made them keep a PO Box at the UPS Store so I could send them care packages and they would get them before the cookies got stale. LOL Anyway, I recognized the address immediately. Wrote that address hundreds of times.

Oh, okay. But I still don't think I'd judge by that - sm

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Hurrah for geography!! Some of the best companies I've worked for are little ones. There's a certain joy in being the big fish in a little pond. Frankly, if I ran a service out of my home, I wouldn't put my address up on my web site either, and it's probably convenient because she can use the mailing and copying services. If I wasn't too darn lazy to update my resume, I'd probably be interested in what would likely be a perfect second job.

There is "small", and then there is........ - "fly-by-night". Be careful! (nm)

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Geez, make up your minds - sm

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All the things that everybody claims they want in a job (except benefits) is not going to come from a corporate behemoth. It's going to come from a small employer. If anything, we should be supporting the small services because they're the ones that offer an alternative to the MQs, or is this another case of just giving lip service to the sad state of the MTSO monopoly?

And the fly by night thing applies to everything in life, and this wouldn't be any different. But if all you do is sit back and say, "Ewwww, they're small; I'm not even going to answer," you're never going to know. And you could lose your chance to be part of a company that really appreciates you, something a lot of MTs don't get to feel any more.

SOUNDS LIKE A RIPOFF - anon

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What makes you think that? - sm

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Is there something in particular that has led you to that conclusion? Does the web site have a lot of broken links? Are there many misspellings? Does the phone # ring as disconnected? Do you know the company personally?

I have to assume that you're basing your conclusion on something, but I'd be interested in knowing what that something is so that I can be on the lookout for 'it' too.

See UPS Mailbox above. - anon

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And?????? - sm

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So you're basing your whole "it's a scam" thing on the fact that this business is run out of a home (much like all of us 'ICs' do) and instead of putting her/his home address, where her children run and play on the world wide web, she uses a mailbox?

So in your opinion, unless a company spends the money on rented office space with a physical address different than their home address, they must be a scam?

Yes. - anon

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If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck it must be a duck!

Sorry....I still don't hear any quacking. - sm

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I see a small MTSO. In this day and age, there is absolutely no need for anyone in this industry to rent office space and pay the additional overhead. Have you ever been to the office of any of the big MTSOs? How do you know they're anything more than a mail drop?

Quite a few people in here complain about the big companies being the only place they can work. Well here is an alternative. If I have my choice of making 9 cpl or only getting 7 because she has to rent office space so she doesn't seem like a "duck" to a few misguided folks, I'll take the 9 cpl, TYVM.

Am I to assume that if you were to go after your own local accounts, you would immediately rent office space, or would you do it from home? If you were doing it from home, would you put up a web page with your home address on it?

Real estate agents and insurance agents alike have not been confined to offices for quite some time and if you check their business cards, they don't include a home address. Why would this person be any different?

it really is not the fact that they dont put their address, - anon

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it is the way that they advertise. Some of these jobs on the job seekers board are actually a bit rude and I would never apply to one that is shouting on their add or rude in any way.

Are we looking at the same ad? - sm

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This one says merely: "5 years experience required. Please copy and paste resume into e-mail along with availability and pay requirements. No attachments will be opened."

There's no shouting or rudeness. It's pretty cut and dried. Considering how many people say they don't want to work for any place that offshores, I would think this would be a great place to go. In addition, since it sounds like a clinic, it's liable to be M-F, since they're small it's probably really set your own hours/24-hour turnaround, and since it a single specialty account it's probably got a lot of shorthand/macros that can be created.

Realistically I don't know how much work a single specialty account can produce, but it sounds like it would be great for someone looking for a part-time job that can likely be fit around the rest of their life while keeping American jobs on American shores.

looking at newline ad - anon

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OK. Different ads; this was about the hand surgery/Southwest ad. - nm

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What happened to Common Courtesy - Just another view

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There are a lot of “probably” in your post. That is part of the problem. Because they do not give specific information, we can only guess. What if you guessed wrong?

It sometimes irks me that these “one-horse” MTSOs think their time is more important than mine. What is wrong with this person giving a little more information in their ad?

THEY REQUIRE! They want “paste resume into e-mail along with availability and pay requirements.” They want YOU to commit before knowing all the facts. I would bet anything the job will go to the person who gives the lowest cents per line.

As an Independent Contractor, would you give a client a “quote” without knowing anything about the dictation or how much?

If you only want part-time and give her a quote of 0.8 available 4 hours a day. Maybe he/she wants someone who is available 6 hours a day. You just wasted your time sending in your resume, waiting for him/her to look it over, and getting back to you to say “Sorry, not what WE want.”

It is called Common Courtesy.

If the ad included information like how much dictation we can expect to get a day (full-time versus part-time), are there templates, are the dictators ESL, do we look up demographics, etc, are we expected to check back periodically to be sure it is within a 24-hour TAT (which would mean checking 7 days out of the week because you never know if a doctor will decide to catch up on the weekend even if the clinic is only open Monday through Friday). I want to know a little more about what I am getting into before I commit to pay and hours.

I think most Independent Contractors would agree with that, and any company not willing to be up-front with potential applicants, in my mind, appears to have something to hide.

Just another view.

There's a difference between what you said and the post - that started this sub-thread. sm

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To me the posting isn't a whole heck of lot different than the average job application for any job other than MT. They all tend to ask salary expectations, and the standard answer is "negotiable depending on the nature of the work" or whatever.

To me it doesn't real take a lot of effort to cut and paste my resume into an email and send it off with the mention of negotiable salary.

I agree the ad is pretty short on words. The poster has probably seen the way other ads get torn to shreds and played it a little too safe.

I did, though, take offense at characterizing the ad as a rip-off, like it was some sort of scam. There is absolutely nothing there to indicate that. I work for a large MTSO and even for that national one I sent my paperwork to a PO Box rather than an actual physical address, so I fail to see where the lack of a home address on an internet site indicates anything one way or another as to the repute of a company.

Southwest - PA MT

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I was supposed to start a psych job with this company last year, but ended up not being able to take on another account. The lady that runs the company was super, super nice and I talked to a few of their MTs before even looking at a contract of theirs and got nothing but positive feedback.

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