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rude employers - Irritated MT
Posted: Jan 19, 2011
Are the rest of you as disgusted as I am with not hearing back after sending an application? Are all these ads for work just made up to look like there are jobs when in reality the ads are fakes? I hear from so many other MTs/editors that they apply for jobs but never hear back, even after receiving permisson to do testing. Maybe we should all stop applying and let them sit and spin!
I dont see this as a big deal. Keep sending resumes, - eventually you will hear back. nm
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Last time I was looking I applied to 2 carefully - chosen companies, did not hear
[ In Reply To ..]anything for 2 weeks, although I sent follow-up e-mails, then got offers from both within 2 days of each other. That was a healthier job market, but the hurry up and wait's the same. Keep applying. :)
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[ In Reply To ..]Yes, I'm very discouraged too. At least I know it's not just me they're ignoring, which is somewhat gratifying. These days, they have all the control and they know it. It's like they periodically come out and throw chicken feed at us, and we're all down on the ground scrounging to get what we can to survive. This used to be a proud industry, but not anymore.
If you submit resume to Target, water company, office, - etc, do you expect to hear from SM
[ In Reply To ..]them that they recieved your resume? NO. MTSO gets 100s of resumes, if not more. Surely you dont think they are going to acknowledge all of those, heck, 1/2 the time they done acknoledge emails from employees. You ever heard dont sweat the small stuff? This is the smallest of the small stuff.
You know what would be kind of a fun thing to try? - ** see message **
[ In Reply To ..]Get a lot of MTs together to pick a particularly RUDE employer, one that advertises all the time, and never responds to resumes, and then crash their website by totally flooding it with thousands upon thousands of applications to their so-called "job".
Bwaa...ha..ha..haaaaahhh!
Seriously, if they are receiving 100s of resumes, - they do not have time to repond.NM
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Sure they do, it's never been easier to pop an auto email - back. Although I am in the oh-well group anyway,
[ In Reply To ..]I'd give first consideration to a company that had the courtesy to hit the send-answer button.
Try applying in person and see how much you like the "old" way of doing things - It really is no big deal
[ In Reply To ..]I wouldn't worry about that too much. It isn't worth the energy you are expending over it. Just apply and get on with it.
Alot of places, you cant even apply in the store. It is all - on-line. nm
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It was horrible fighting traffic, waiting for appt, interviewing, waiting weeks for response - The old days of interviewing were awful
[ In Reply To ..]I much prefer online interviewing and testing. I remember waiting weeks and weeks to find out how I did on face-to-face interviews, after fighting traffic, looking for parking spaces, shaking in my shoes, sweating through the interview, and then nothing for weeks, if at all. Sometimes they would turn people down on the spot. Often they would send you to the next level for another interview and another one after that, then there were no guarantees that you would get that job after all that time, energy, sweat, gas, dressing up, etc.
Not here! Back in the day, if I had an in-office interview, - I was always put to work that same day. nm
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The same day? - Anonymous
[ In Reply To ..]What about 2 weeks notice to your current employer, the preemployment paper work, new employee orientation, etc? No one who gets hired for an in house job starts work the same day they interview unless they are the only candidate applying, which would be extremely rare.
The same day. (Inhouse). I was always between - jobs when I applied, so no 2-wk notice. sm
[ In Reply To ..]Our "orientation" was, "Here's an empty desk, and here are some tapes. Let me find you a headset, and you're in business."
This experience wasn't recent, it was about 20 years ago. And yes, back then employers could advertise for weeks without getting a single bite. In some cases there was no ad. I just walked in cold, asked if they had openings, and was usually looked at the way someone might look at a $1000 bill that just happened to blow up to them in the wind and land at their feet.
And of course, after finding that yes, I COULD transcribe the work they'd given me to test on, they simply said, "You're hired", kept me at that desk, and gave me work to do. They needed the work done; in most instances they gave me the paperwork at the end of the shift, which I brought back in with me the next morning after having completed it. Things were a little bit simpler then, without all that HIPAA cr@p to worry about. As a result, we were ALL much better off: Employer, MT, patient, and doctor. Today the MT business is just one big circus and money-grabbing free-for-all.
HIPAA crap? Try serving that sincere opinion up - to an interviewer, or do not if you want
[ In Reply To ..]to be hired THESE days. No wonder they scan these boards.
And they do. I believe I inadvertently helped myself that way. I'd once posted a "how to succeed by working hard" response to someone who clearly was probably not going to, a good deed sort of thing, and a couple of days later in a phone interview got a nuanced, cute tone of voice referring to some "clue" that I was that person. The same voice then offered me a job. BTW, in case nuance passed over, I am a HIPAA supporter. Of course, since I do understand it's not all about causing me trouble.
As to why they were so eager to hire way back then: geographic limitations. They had to take what they hoped was the best available within about a 20 to 30-mile radius at most.
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[ In Reply To ..]I am assuming you think you are dealing with actual people when applying to these companies! I too have fallen into the trap of applying, testing and never hearing anything back, except perhaps a computer generated e-mail, stating I didn't qualify. I applied at MedGarde and heard immediately back from a "recruiter" (yeah right) and they sent me a test, which I did and I know I did well, despite all the static and never a word back. It finally dawned on me, that the minute you send in a resume, it just gets bounced back to you via the internet. I am tempted to send in another app to this company under a different name and listing very limited experience and see what happens. I bet you anything it will come back just like the first one did. We are all lost in cyberspace. No more for me, I'm done. Unless someone can personally call me, no more wasting my time on these places.
I bet you are right. Send a resume, immediatley have to - test with no human input in it. nm
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I think some employers only run ads so that others - will believe they actually have clients. nm
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Been sending resumes for close to a year - typetypetypewaway
[ In Reply To ..]I know what you mean, but I still do it anyway. I am on unemployment and I know they will soon as me to show proof of who I send to. Very few responses do I get, but have gotten some, saying I don't fit what they are looking for, do not have proper equipment (software, OS, etc). But I just keep sending and sending, hoping somebody will get back to me. I have a file folder on my outlook of all the ones I have sent and after six months go back and resend. I guess in the internet world it is the same as "hitting the pavement" from years ago. Good luck. I hope you get something soon. Hang in and try not to let it bother you.
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