| As soon as you are ready to find medical | | | | a year and received a wonderful education in |
| transcription job opportunities, volunteer your time, | | | | Pathology terminology. This was the best experience |
| effort and resources to establish your | | | | I ever had. Plus, the sole medical transcriptionist was |
| professionalism. Seek out and join a local chapter of | | | | nearing retirement which put me in a great position if |
| the American Association of Medical Transcriptionists | | | | I were offered the job. |
| (AAMT) in your area, and ask how you may be of | | | | In your search for medical transcription job |
| help to your local chapter. Volunteers are always | | | | opportunities, ask your instructors if they need some |
| needed and will be welcomed with open arms. This is | | | | help with transcribing classroom assignments. When I |
| a terrific way to brand yourself as a person who is | | | | was an MT student, I remember how bad the |
| serious about the medical transcription career. | | | | assignment copies were. After I completed the |
| Veteran medical transcriptionists will take notice of | | | | medical transcription course, I word processed the |
| you, and that will open the doors to medical | | | | assignments, corrected the mistakes that had been in |
| transcription job opportunities in the future. | | | | them, and then took them to a print shop for |
| When seeking medical transcription job opportunities, | | | | reprinting and binding. Then I sent these to my |
| market yourself to local medical transcription | | | | medical transcription instructor. It was a way to |
| agencies. Set up an appointment or interview, if | | | | thank her for all she had done for me. I also helped |
| possible. Expand your network by talking to | | | | my medical terminology instructor, who was writing a |
| everyone you can in the medical transcription field | | | | book. I word processed the medical reports for her |
| and let them know that you are willing to do | | | | medical terminology book. I was working full time as |
| whatever it takes, including volunteer work, to get | | | | a medical transcription and word processor, but I |
| your foot in the door. Do not forget to thank those | | | | made the time to pay back these wonderful |
| who have helped you along the way. | | | | professionals who gave me a great education. |
| Medical transcription job opportunities are | | | | Volunteering is a networking strategy used to find |
| everywhere; use some unique strategies to find | | | | unadvertised medical transcription job opportunities. |
| them. Look for a local situation that may be of | | | | Not many people employ this technique. Although you |
| benefit to you. For example, in the 1990s, the | | | | may not get immediate results from your efforts, |
| County of Orange in California declared bankruptcy. I | | | | people will see you as a serious medical |
| contacted the Sheriff-Coroner's Office only to | | | | transcriptionist and admire your professional tenacity |
| discover that all but one full-time medical | | | | in your job search. The word will get out that you |
| transcriptionist had been laid off and there was a nine | | | | are looking for a MT job, and soon you will find what |
| month backlog of autopsy reports. Nine months! | | | | you are looking for: medical transcription job |
| After interviewing there and receiving a great | | | | opportunities. |
| reception, I worked there every Saturday for almost | | | | |