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Do all companies have testing that takes hours? - ss

Posted: Mar 01, 2015

Seems like a waste of a lot of time to find out later on pay scale is not what you want or schedule you want isn't available.

Used to be they would give you an oral exam during interview and guess you good to go. Is that out of the question anymore?

Testing - We are supposed to be premed

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Those tests are torture and either you don't pass right in the middle of it or you get a rejection letter with no explanation, or if you do pass, it ends up like stated; what is the pay and hours. If I see MTTest, I don't bother at all anymore. It isn't worth it. They want us to be premed students and an English professor. I am also noticing some of the specifications for computer knowledge/software and what you are REQUIRED to have, even though you provide the equipment. Now the new scam seems to be ICs have to get a license. What's next, we will be doing actual surgery? Gawd, this job just sucks any more and to makes matters worse, I saw a job listing on another web site that had a long list of what they wanted and what did they give in return 5 CPL. I couldn't believe my eyes. I wanted to send them a nasty note or a polite one and ask if that could possibly be a typo, as no one pays that low of a rate, except for voice wreck and what a rip off that turned out to be for us.

MT Test is the - biggest joke of all.

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These companies must be idiots not to know that all answers are easily available on line, right down to the exact wording of each question.
The only test that makes any sense is 2 maybe 3 short dictations.

No sense at all on the dictations either. - anon

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Testing requires you to also be a computer programmer. You have to download and then voice file and hopefully it all works with the foot pedal, or you are timed and then rejected. Last test 3 VR files to be edited, and one report was that of a Cardiac Catheterization. By email I was informed that I could not do the job because they were looking for someone in Acute Care.

Another service had 9 files all over 3 minutes long, and could not get the foot pedal to work, nor the hand controls. I think they were using testing to get their accounts caught up.

I worked in-house...we were paid for being human...now we are used machines.

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