Online Medical Transcription Jobs
How to Apply

Applying for online medical transcription jobs. Now that you've done thorough research and know what you want, it's time to apply for the job.

If you have seen an online job ad, they will have a website you have to go to or an email address for you to send your resume. Following the directions! If they say "no attachments", copy and paste your resume into the body of the report below your "cover letter", which will be a short paragraph stating what you are looking for (full time, part time, a particular specialty, etc), and what you have to offer the company ("I have 85 years of experience in all aspects of transcription", or something closer to the truth).

Sometimes they tell you what to include in the subject line of the email or, if not, put something like "Radiology Transcriptionist - 5 years of experience". At this point, you will wait for an acknowledgement email which will, hopefully, tell you when they will contact you or send a test for you to take.

If you have to apply for online medical transcription jobs through the company website, follow the directions! If there is a prequalifying test you have to take, register your name and take the test. Be sure and allow yourself enough free time to take the test calmly and without hurry. You don't want to blow it at this point.

The website may also have a place for you to click on and attach or copy and paste your resume. Do so. Then, as above, wait for them to contact you and give you further instructions. (Sounds like Mission Impossible, doesn't it? In more ways than one!)

If there is a dictation test, do I really need to tell you to double check, spell check, and triple check? The important thing to remember when applying for online medical transcription jobs is that you will most likely never meet the person who hires you. So the online test is one important way they will judge your job worthiness and it goes without saying that you have to do your very best. You particularly want to look for words that sound alike but have different meanings. Spell check won't flag the word "plain", but it is an error if the dictator meant "plane". One easy mistake is dropping a word like "no". There is a big difference between "There were no liver lesions found" and "There were liver lesions found". And here's another tip - do not guess if you can't hear a particular word. You have to leave a blank, which is what you would do in a real job. If there are a lot of blanks, of course, that is a big clue to the hiring manager of your transcription abilities.

Although finding online medical transcription jobs is not easy by any means, my hope is that you have an idea of which transcription company you want to work for, that it has a good reputation and good benefits and/or pay, and you have your first job within a matter of days. If so, you just got extremely lucky. But don't get discouraged if reality is a little more difficult for you. The key is to not give up. It will happen, but you have to make the effort and "put yourself out there". Very few transcriptionists got their start by answering the door one day and finding a hiring manager on the other side with a job on a silver platter. Yes, a little sarcastic, but you get my drift.

Online medical transcription jobs search continued - handling the interview.