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Won't hire without VR Editing experience - Dahlia

Posted: May 02, 2013

I have been an MT for many years, but am now having difficulty getting a job because all the companies advertising on MT Daily want experience with VR. Doesn't anyone train on the job anymore? Any advise, please?

Very easy to train on the job - MT

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Companies have different platforms and protocols anyway, so training on the job is always involved, mainly learning editing shortcuts and keystrokes. Any experienced MT can learn VR and you should have no problem (though you may hate it and the accompanying pay cut). Good luck!

so when they ask . . . - dahlia

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I've heard this also. So when they ask for experience, should you "fudge" and say that you have some experience, even when you don't, so that you can get your foot in the door?

Let me tell you what I do on VR - P

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I had done this MTing so long I was not interested at all in learning the so called hot keys they said we had to learn. That is just not true. I don't think it makes 1 big difference in what you are able to edit at all. I look at each and every word, take out, expand what needs to be as required by our job, such as mg etc. and scan the report as it is being dictated. If you know how to get 1 report in, spell check and get the report out, you will be fine. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out voice.

Yes, tell them you've been doing a mixture of - editing and transcribing for years. This

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is too important to you not to fudge on and you'll probably do fine. Fact is, most MTs switch to editing with no particular fuss. The issue for them is just building speed through practice and tricks until they can make half what they would make transcribing the same dictation.

Employers are really trying to screen out the others.

There were (most already gone now) lots of MTs who weren't actually very good at what they did for whatever reason OR who just won't work very hard or long in today's new exploitative environment that requires both. Lots of times, hospitals had just let them continue on for years at hourly pay or annual salary so they bring 20 and 30 years of experience no one wants. Those get screened out, an industry housecleaning.

Then there are also some MTs who were good, valued employeees in a job that put a premium on good typing and conscientious attitude but who just aren't cutting it as editors for whatever reason, some lack of talent for some element it takes.

But, again, most MTs just make the switch to editing fairly seamlessly. The issue isn't the work for most of us, it's the pay.

Gosh Darn - see msg

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That just drives me nutso when companies say that. If you know how to transcribe medical reports, you can edit. Heck, when you transcribe and make a boo-boo, you know how to edit it. Well, VR is the same thing only with more errors than you could ever make in a lifetime.

No matter where you work, you'll need to learn "their" speech software which should take all of 1/2 hour on a phone call, then hands-on right away.

if you ever had a normal and had to fix it you can do VR - tynkerbelle

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if you ever read through a normal and had to fix it, you can do vr. nothing different. same suit, different name.

Thats crazy, Nuance and MModal train you for - VR. I dont know why these.

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places would ask for VR experience, it's not like its anything to it; if you can use a keyboard, then you can edit VR. Does not make sense.

MT Daily/Jobs - dahlia

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You should look at some of the job listings on MTJobs for VR editing and what they want.

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