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are requirements getting higher - to get an MT job?

Posted: Aug 03, 2010

Seems to me, "one year acute care experience" was the basic requirement to sign on with an MTSO. Then it went to three years. Now, a lot of places require "five years' experience." Plus, QA has gotten unbelievably picky. I've always had top-notch quality and even been complimented personally by physicians at various local clinics. Recruiters call my test scores "excellent." And YET, wherever I start working, my QA looks like the homework of some dyslexic third-grader that comes back from the teacher covered in red marks. Plus, you need to be able to learn all account specifics by yourself-- please don't call us with a question that is answered on page 17, paragraph 3, of your manual! I am thinking to myself, For crying out loud, do you have to be a bloody genius anymore to work for an MTSO?? How does anyone manage to break into this world? And for all that-- once you're actually IN-- there's nothing to do-- you're not paid well for the work you do, but that's not a problem, because there is no work in the first place-- OH FOR PETE'S SAKE! IT'S LIKE HAVING TO GET A PERFECT SAT SCORE TO BE ADMITTED TO A SCAM ONLINE UNIVERSITY!! Vent over, at least for the next 15 minutes. ;-) If it weren't for this forum, what would I do with myself-- oh wait-- laundry-- water tomato plants-- go to the grocery store-- never mind!! Maybe I do have a life!

No, they're getting where they should have been - all along

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Accepting shoddy work has severely impacted the industry as a whole. I still predict only the best MTs will be employable in 5 years, the rest having been weeded out.

Competition is tough and clients are finally realizing they want an ACCURATE record for whatever price they are paying. Some SR programs are hitting in the 90s for percent accuracy (believe me, I know not ALL of them are!) but that's going to impact the overall percentage of accuracy a company will expect.

Does it boil down to ... - overthere, overthere

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Does it all come down to extreme competition in the US due to the significant usage of overseas MTs? Nice. This way the have only the BEST to edit the stuff they get done cheaply as well.

You'd be surprised - over there

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While there are many services utilizing offshore labor, not all do, and not even the majority do.

We need to stop blaming everything on offshoring and realize it's up to us to keep OUR skills in order and knowing how to market them.

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