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Does M*Modal follow AHDI Book of Style? - Thornbush

Posted: Feb 08, 2013

I ask this because in my pre-employment test with M*Modal, I got dictations where they dictated the wrong punctuation and I edited it according to the AHDI Book of Style, which is one of my chief references when transcribing.

I got a reply back from M*Modal saying that my results of their pre-employment test "did not match their criteria", whatever that means. I got the same reply from Acusis, another company that rejected me on the grounds that my results "didn't make the cut."

Was I NOT supposed to edit according to the AHDI Book of Style? Was I supposed to transcribe all the punctuation dictated by the dictator, despite it being ungrammatical?

Please advise because I don't want to make the same mistake on future pre-employment tests. The problem is that the companies DO NOT tell you what their criteria are, so how are you supposed to know how to transcribe things other than the way you learned??

Only type verbatim - dont fix anything

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Mmodal follows AHDI, but they have their own guidelines, and JHACO guidelines as well. Everyone contradicts eachother. I just type what they say. If they want a comma, they get it.

I don't even know - anon

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what BOS guidelines are any more. Sad we have come to this.

Yes. They try to adhere to it, but it's mainly based on - what the client wants. So they

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are not sticklers for it from what I can tell. I just follow client specs and have no problems.

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