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How to gain experience if nobody will hire you - MDLady

Posted: Apr 06, 2010

I am a relatively new MT working in a large hospital in a subspecialty (Dermatopathology). My goal is to work at home and all job openings I see for working at home require experience working in acute care. I graduated from a 2 year college last year and received an Associates of Science degree in Office Administration with a major in Medical Transcription. I am pretty sure that my college degree got me this MT job since I had no previous work experience. I never heard of Dermatopathology before, but in less than 2 months after starting, I have been transcribing like I have been working in this specialty for years. How can I prove to other companies that I am very trainable and can learn quickly? How do I get the acute care experience when nobody will hire me without it?

why not - anon

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attempt to get acute care experience within your own hospital system? That is a no-brainer. You are right there, and in-house jobs are not as easy to get as they once were. You can gain very valuable and broad experience in the hospital, and then later on you WILL be marketable to companies. Be very careful, though, if you decide to jump the hospital ship. Many at home MTs are wishing they could get back in-house.

Read the main, company and MQ boards on here.

I can vouch for that - me

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I left an in house job because it was way too late, I wanted to go part time, and I hated driving in every day and running my kids to and from daycare. I did find a job online, but the pay is barely 60% of what I was making before, and the benifit suck. Essentially now I am making what I could have made part time if they would have let me within the hospital (which they wouldn't; I had horrible managers).

It's all about compromise I guess.

not as easy as it sounds - MDLady

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Well, that is the problem since the department that does acute care at this hospital (Radiology and Surgical Pathology) are not hiring and the other hospitals in my state require experience. I don't wanna work 10-20 years in one specialty; that sounds too boring for me, so I am looking around and not giving up hope. I just wanted to vent. I guess I just don't understand that age-old theory and nobody seems to be able to answer the question: How do you get job experience if nobody will hire you?

People will hire you, they just won't pay well - :-)

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good luck

Part of that depends on how you test - Different levels

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Most employers hire on MTs at different levels, depending on how they do on the employment test. Sometimes everyone goes in at the same level but you go up a level a soon a you go off 100% Q/A and when they know they can trust you to do a good job. If you stay at the lower levels, that means you need to improve your skills.

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