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One major thing you will experience on working as an audio transcriptionist is you gain new knowledge. Specifically, if you are a medical transcriptionist, you tend to learn more new medical terminologies and jargons, as well as emerging techniques being done by doctors to their patients. It is indeed medical transcription is a continuous learning. You always hear this being said by medical transcription professionals.

For every job seeker, of course, the experience is such a great plus to a resume, but as for me, experience-wise, I had none. When I first stepped the realm of transcription, medical at that, the basic thing I knew that would somehow relate me to the job was that it’s an encoding sort of thing. I had not undergone a short-term transcription course as most of the batch did in the company where I became part of as production team; although, before the real work, we had a two-month training. Before transcription, I just had encoding and proofreading jobs, but that’s just it. So, on the earlier part of my formal training/evaluation as the transcriptionist (medical), I really did experience ‘real’ headaches listening and deciphering inaudible words and I really would want to cry. During evaluation days, honestly, I was always on the bottom rank as 80% of my co-trainees were graduates of the short-term medical transcription course. Nonetheless, despite such result, I still made it through ti...

In this article, I will feature my interview with Karla. She has no current experience as audio transcriptionist but she wants to have a career diversity. From the time of this writing, she is a Customer Support Professional employee in a BPO company for a year or more. She is currently located in San Juan City, Metro Manila in the Philippines.   Karla states, I honestly do not have an experience of being a transcriptionist but I really want to have a career diversity. For me, I have the edge to be a transcriptionist since I am doing a chat support from a Telco company and I have an excellent typing speed skill. I really want to try this job aside from the fact that it is a high paying job. I want to develop my skills on this field and I am looking forward to having a career growth on this kind of industry since we have a rapid growth in this line of job. At first, she wants to work in the office wherein she will have the chance to interact with other people. For Karla, it is one o...

Writing is indeed an enjoyable task, which relaxes and soothes the mind and nourishes the soul. However, it does take a lot of efforts, dedication, patience, and perseverance to excel in this field and provide genuinely, quality and appreciative writing, no matter what the domain is all about. While each writer does evolve, sustain and perpetuate his or her own style of writing, a few tips could indeed be offered that could be of some use to budding writers. These tips need not be taken as the Gospel Truth but could be applied as and when required and necessary. 1. Good reading is the key to good writing. Indeed, good readers make better writers just as good listeners make finer speakers. This author believes that a writer is essentially what he reads, since his thought processes and its crystallization into printed words which are gained through what he reads and imbibes. 2. Write with the reader in mind. It is important that readers should be able to understand and appreciate what is...

A productive audio transcriptionist is being measured by a number of audio files transcribed. This will reflect in your earnings if you are doing home-based transcription or in your performance appraisal if you’re working as an office based-transcriptionist. There are various ways on how to increase one’s productivity and here are a few of them. First of all, you have to listen very carefully to the audio or speaker’s voice that you need to transcribe. Because listening is the best part of a good production and especially in conversation. Without listening to the audio files, how can you understand it and transcribe it perfectly? It is a very basic thing, but it can be the right thing to do. Second, you have to understand every word and the tone of the speaker for you to transcribe it more efficiently especially the quotations, commas, periods, and etc. Because writing can be more understandable if it has a right tone and pause. Third, you have to work in a quiet and comfortable surrou...

It was almost six years ago when I started looking for online jobs so that I can earn a little extra money and buy some stuff I want and need. I was being influenced by my sister who was working for a blog site that time. She was writing tons of articles every day to maintain the content of the site. After a month, I saw her earnings and right there on, I was motivated to find a job too. Finding a client was tough, though. I am still a newbie and still wandering the corners of online jobs. After a quite some time, I had my luck and found my first client. My task was to write 10 articles a day, with 350 words each. I was very happy that I got a job but sad to say, after a month, my client said she was going to terminate the job because of unknown reasons. The good part was, I got paid. It did not stop there. I still looked for other clients and I got different employers. Some are paying while some are experts in hide-and-never-seek during payday. I scanned through various online jobs an...

Once again we welcome you to The Transcriptionists’ Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists. Today, we have Rachelle who started to become a medical transcriptionist in December 2012. She is from Las Pinas City, Philippines. Rachelle attained her training from American Academy of Medical Transcription in Ortigas Center, Pasig City. The school is accredited by TESDA or Technical Education and Skills Development Authority – a Philippine government training institution. She then started to become a medical transcriptionist trainee in a company where she pursues to contribute her skills and her being a fast learner to help in the growth of the company. She prefers to work as in a home based setting and of course, generally interested in medical transcription because of her training. She values to become a hard working and fast learner employee which she becomes a speedy typist. The best advice she can give to someone who wants to become a transcrip...