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MTEC student seeking graduation/job search advise - GodschildMT


Posted: Mar 04, 2011

Hi MT stars:  I am a student approaching graudation in June.  As I get to the close of my education, I want to seek expert direction in the way I should go to ensure success.  Can anyone please help and guide me in the way I should go?

1)  Should I take the CMT course offered to enhance my resume, not to mention my skills?  When should I take it, i.e., after I finish the education, or in the last session or other?

2)  When should I start seeking for my employment, i.e., now, wait til I graduate?

3)  I am a 23 1/2 yr veteran of Marketing at Motorola, yet, I have spent the last 7 years since being downsized in various childcare positions while attending this MT program.  Should I post all of my past history of Marketing on my resume, with the childcare positions, or leave off the childcare positoins and just talk about the program from which I am graduating? 

If anyone has an expert advise, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you so much.

GodschildMT

 

job search - should be

[ In Reply To ..]
job search should be underway now. Your school should be the one to get you started in that direction, as it may take some time to find a job as a newbie. CMT test is not usually given until you have some experience, at least in my days you needed some to take it. I was a CMT for about 10 years in the 90s but no more. Too expensive to take the test and then you need to continue getting credits from seminars or further education in order to keep up your CMT and that gets expensive. In my day we attended local, state and national conventions for transcription to get further credits, but not sure there are many chapters around anymore. Definitely not the way things used to be. Actually enjoyed my job and attending seminars and stuff back then, no more.

Good luck in your job search. Unless you can get some help from your school which should be part of their job, it could be tough.

I graduated from MTEC - and

[ In Reply To ..]
I recommend waiting until you get your final GPA back before you begin your job search as until that point in time you will not have access to the COC list that MTEC offers. There are plenty of companies on that list that should help you find your first job.


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