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Is it that hard for companies to teach a platform? - me


Posted: Feb 25, 2015

I see job ads from time to time where I have all the qualifications except having experience on their transcription platform. Is it that hard to teach software? It shouldn't be a huge effort. I'm sure within a week or so of working, an MT working on a new platform would have it down.

Just venting.

Not Really, But... - see msg

[ In Reply To ..]
Not hard, but they want someone up and running. You would still need to be trained on it. As you know, they are all different to a certain degree.

It's not your limitation, it's that they don't want to spend any time training.


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