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Is CMT Certification still a thing? - MT2

Posted: Jan 26th, 2022 - 6:44 pm

Somebody offered me a transcription job the other day, but said they could only hire "certified transcriptionists". I have only come across two people in all of my years of transcribing who had CMT certification, and from the very beginning I have always been under the impression that it was a rather pointless affectation that transcriptionists could obtain to burnish their resumes, but it had no real professional value. (And, as I had never seen a job that asked for CMT certification until now, more than 2 decades into my career, I have had every reason to believe that was indeed the case.)

So: How many of you out there have paid the $250 to get your CMT certification? Why did you do it? And what benefit did you derive from having it?

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Is CMT Certification still a thing? - MT2 (Views: 809, 2022-01-26, 6:44 pm)
- Certification - Don’t Do It (Views: 604, 2022-01-26, 7:06 pm)
  - Yeah, I never would get it at this late point. - MT2 (Views: 514, 2022-01-26, 7:15 pm)
    - It used to be as I said above - Don’t Do It (Views: 551, 2022-01-26, 7:48 pm)
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- It still exists - But is entirely useless (Views: 597, 2022-01-28, 2:42 pm)
- The name has changed - retired (Views: 601, 2022-02-02, 8:44 am)