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Now I have a question about resume - cc/A pain I know

Posted: Jun 30, 2012

I have had six radiology transcriptiion jobs in 25 years. I had one on-site job for 10 years and the other 15 years at home. I can easilly explain what my duties were when I was on site. It was in the 1980s when the equipment I used then seems ancient now and if the interviewer is young she probably would not even know what I am talking about. Anyway if I transcribed for five companies at home doing the same straight typing radiology reports do I really need to itemize what I did for each company. Can I just say nothing and just list them. This position is for a medical secretary that I am looking into for radiology (no transcription). All I really could say is transcribed reports daily, met the turn around time just used different platforms. It is hard when some people do not know what a transcriptionist. Please advise me. I promise this will be my last question.

Not sure if this would help, but... - (see message)

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I had two jobs in a row that had identical job duties--both medical transcriptionist jobs. I listed the job duties for the first one, and then put "Duties: Same as above" for the second one.

Don't know if that would be appropriate for your jobs, but might be a thought. Since you'd have more than two jobs, maybe you could put "Same as for XYZ Company above" for each additional job listing instead of "Same as above."

resume - old

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I too worked a lot of jobs at one time from home while I was working full time in office for someone. I didn't really want to get into detail on those because I, too, thought the interviewer might not understand. So I did below. See as an an example

1999-2010 Transcribed as independent contractor for the following companies and then list them.

If you want to put a little of the duties, put something like transcribed regular dictation and voice recognition.

Hope this helps It's late and I will reread this tomorrow and cringe if I am not clear. Good luck! You will love being a medical secretary!

resume - oldone

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I forgot to add something. Unfortunately, a very lengthy resume will not always be read. It would be a courtesy for the whole thing to be read but not so usually. Type it out and then look over it again and again before faxing to see if you can make less wordy (NOT implying you are wordy!). I have worked 39 years and 2 years ago I retyped my resume and got it down to 1 page. Realized that my experience outweighed any formal schooling so that part of your resume can be minimized. I wish you luck and hope you get the job.

Thanks so much your suggestions are great. - OP

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I really appreciate the help. I am going to use your suggestions on my resume than I am going to ask my 24 year old daughter who is a Journalist major what she thinks before I fax it. I remember when there was no such things as cover letters and a paper application was used and not a resume.

resume tips - s/m

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Hi again. I gave you the cover letter tip. AND I have always been a Radiology transcriptionist too. What I would do is this:

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
then bullet your duties and activities over the years, including vast knowledge of medical terminology, computer equipment and technology use, any management you've done, consciousness and ability to meet deadlines. Etc.

THEN, have another section for PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and list the different jobs you have had.

Remember to add a section for Education and Training.

And, last, a good tip I got awhile back was to use dynamic words and percentages i.e. met deadlines with 99.9% accuracy.
Apparently resumes are run through software that pays attention to these things on a resume.

Hope that helps and good luck.

Agree with no more than one page - Show how you meet their needs

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The type of resume you are describing, where you list the equipment you used, went out with white gloves and hats.

Your main problem is going to be that you do not appear to be a medical secretary . . . you appear to have ONE skill that this job does not need. You do not need to describe it in detail; they know what it is. Twenty years doing it just makes it worse. Do not use words like platform that nobody knows.

The employer needs to see how you can fulfill ALL his needs. Look up some medical secretarial position descriptions online and figure out what you need to say about yourself. If you have to include volunteer work, the PTA, or just the bookkeeping you have done for yourself in MT . . . purchasing equipment, installing software, basic repairs, internet, email, phone conferences, in-person and virtual meetings, whatever . . . do so.

They are going to want a mature, computer-literate individual who writes well, can manage an office, can keep books and order supplies, can schedule radiologists time and activities, can handle credentialing issues, can perform online information and literature searches, possibly write grant applications or research articles, speak on behalf of the doctors to suppliers, hospitals, patients, understand Medicare and HIPAA and other legal issues, and quite possibly do some coding and billing. You must be proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Outlook, and Excel, possibly PowerPoint and Access. You might need experience in Medical Manager or a similar office management package.

That is what you need to appear able to do. If all you say that you transcribed for 20 years, they cannot see what they need.

I recommend that you look up some college medical secretarial programs to see what they are teaching. Google some textbooks and see if you can find the table of contents on the publisher's website or Amazon.

Keep your cover letter very short. It will need to explain why you are interested in that job after doing MT for ages. It has to be a positive reason. Personal growth and challenge is positive, rotten jobs in MT is not.

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