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Rejection letter - You have to be kidding me, right


Posted: Mar 01, 2012

Help me out here. I have more than 35 years' acute care experience that covered absolutely every speciality and subspecialty out there. I worked at a 1000-bed teaching/research hospital for many years, along with some smaller regional hospitals. I am a high-production MT serving in a significant ESL environment. I have excellent quarterly QA scores. I was the go-to MT with drop-dead reliability, who would stay there until the job was done. My references are perfect. I had formal MT training and I have a BA in English from a state university. There's not a negative on my resume or in my history. Epic came, changed the entire medical documentation process (BTW producing crap for output), and then our hospital fired nearly all of us. So I begin searching for work. Testing was great, but being burned at my last hospital, I'm looking for the right fit. I got this e-mail yesterday, and it just blew me away. This was an ordinary MT position with nothing exotic in terms of requirements. I've been over my resume a thousand times and it's perfect. I'd like to see the successful candidate for this job. Dear xxxxxxx, Thank you so much for your interest in a career with xxxxxx. We received your application for the Transcriptionist - Part Time. - 1102246 position. At this time, based on the minimum qualifications we require for this position, we are unable to move forward with your application. Although you are not a match for this particular role, please continue visiting www.xxxx.org for opportunities— we encourage you to apply to other positions that interest you. Be sure to review the minimum qualifications listed in each job posting, which may include education requirements, specific certifications needed or experience necessary for the role. Remember to log in as a returning user and use the same username and password each time you return. Best of luck with your job search, and thank you for considering xxxxxxxx. Warm Regards, Recruitment Team

A BA in English is a negative - wheres_my_job

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You're too experienced and probably too old. Age discrimination is against the law - but you can be in your 40s, and age discriminated against. What are you going to do about it? There are literally millions of experienced, educated, older Americans out of work. Who wants to hire someone like that?

Don't know what to say - maybe dumb it down a little? I have exactly the same quandary. I wish us both, no scratch that, I wish us ALL luck - the experienced, the inexperienced, etc.

I'm not following you. - sm

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Going to the trouble of a 4-year degree is a negative?

I can see how a cesspool company like MQ only wants dumb new grads because they are so frantic for work that they'll take any crap for pay work.

My last hospital valued smart MTs and compensated them accordingly.

Change your mindset - MT2

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Sorry for the shock. You are new to this world. I am not saying the world of MTing. I am saying the world outside hospital employment. We have all been through it. Unfortunately we all have to go through it. I can't explain. It is kind of an initiation into the world of the agency and the servant. They need to see you are an indentured servant before you will go through the process of being hired. Sorry to break it to you. And if you don't believe me, maybe you will remember my words later when you are grateful for anything they throw at you. Much luck in your search. Try not to get too stressed.
MT2 - sm
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I've been around. I have been a very successful IC and a very successful employee. Obviously this recruiter has her hairpins jammed into her brain.

Taking any job they throw at me and being grateful serves no one. In fact it artificially lowers the bar for all MTs. If they want dumb bunny newbies, then have at it. While you're at it, get ready to dedicate significant resources to get the work those dumb bunnies produce to be client ready. Of course, you could have hired a client-ready MT in the first place, but you don't feel your clients deserve the best of the best now do you?

Fortunately, I've concurrently applied for a variety of jobs and found a great one working direct for a great salary plus a generous quality/quantity incentive.

Here's the best part.....going with me is going to reduce their outsource costs. Nothing makes me happier than to take money away from an MTSO that treats MTs like crap.

You are SPOT on! - Yep

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Everything you wrote is -- unfortunately -- TRUE.

I just completed a workshop put on by my state for workers over 50. The age discrimination is REAL as is the "overqualified" factor. We were advised to do exactly as you said here: dumb it down a little.

That looks like a generic - Glenn

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"thank you for your interest" letter. It is not really a comment on you or your qualifications. It's just easier for the company to send everyone they don't hire the same notice. It is possible that they filled all the positions before your application reached them, so they turned you down, maybe without even looking at your applicatoin or resume. If it was a big company, the process might even have been automated.

Don't let this bother you. Since they did not specify which "minimum qualifications" you did not meet, I really think this was just a generic letter and not specifically about your qualifications.

You will be a good fit for the right company. Good luck to you.

this is NOT personal - mtt

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This is just a generic letter they are sending out. They likely filled the position. For the most part, there is no age discrimination going on. I've seen many older transcriptionists doing just fine.

Dust yourself off, keep applying. Education is never a bad thing. Hang in there.

EVERYTHING is personal - on this board

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Honestly, I have never seen so many "reactors" in one place in my life. There are probably more here than at AA meetings...

EVERYTHING is personal and EVERYTHING elicits an emotional overreaction on here. People are CONSTANTLY offended even when it's obvious (or should be) that no offense was intended. There's nothing like "reading into" things so you can take umbrage, get into a huff, and then go off! Some of us have better ways to spend our time.

I got one exactly like it--- - ---EXACTLY nm

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Sounds like the typical B.S. "robo-letter". I think, - however, that their wording is misleading: (s/m)

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"based on the minimum qualifications we require for this position":

I think what they really meant to say was, "We don't want anyone smart enough to think for themselves. So what we're really looking for is someone with LESS than our minimum qualifications."

I feel your pain - Anonymous

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Epic's the pits, isn't it? Quality has gone down the tubes and now all that matters, at least where I work, is how fast an MT can crank out the work. I share your years of experience and work ethic and have also received the same generic rejection letters. I'm questioning who reviews the resumes these days.

don't take it personal - me

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I've been in the business for 30 years and I get those letters too, usually it means "we found somebody cheaper."


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