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MTSO's profits create new school - Annie


Posted: Sep 15, 2012

The MTSO I work for is starting an MT school. WHY??? Do they need more than 1,000 applicants for each position posted? Nah - just more money coming in by from newbies who don't research the profession before getting into it.

Which company? I heard that KS bought a school last year but not sure on details. - Curious

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Maybe it is better than what's already out there. There are still jobs for MTs, but the schools don't train very well for real jobs.

Exactly.... not enough trained candidates - anon

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It costs a significant amount of money to train and mentor MTs, and there are not enough qualified workers.

I agree. Experienced doesn't necessarily mean qualified. - Des

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Yes, Experienced Doesn't Mean Trained - Interesting Story
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Way back when I started MT after having good school training, I worked for a very small transcription agency in-house. We had someone come in to temporarily help out with a big Cardiology account we had. She had 6 years cardiology experience. I only had my good school training and 3 months on the job, and I was editing her work, which needed a lot of terminology correction.

So, here I was, basically just fresh out of school and I'm fixing someone's work who had 6 years of "experience."


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