Volunteer Your Way to Medical Transcription Job Opportunities

Volunteer Your Way to Medical Transcription Job Opportunities
As soon as you are ready to find medical transcription job
opportunities, volunteer your time, effort and resources to
establish your professionalism. Seek out and join a local
chapter of the American Association of Medical
Transcriptionists (AAMT) in your area, and ask how you may
be of help to your local chapter. Volunteers are always
needed and will be welcomed with open arms. This is a
terrific way to brand yourself as a person who is serious
about the medical transcription career. Veteran medical
transcriptionists will take notice of you, and that will
open the doors to medical transcription job opportunities
in the future.

When seeking medical transcription job opportunities,
market yourself to local medical transcription agencies.
Set up an appointment or interview, if possible. Expand
your network by talking to everyone you can in the medical
transcription field and let them know that you are willing
to do whatever it takes, including volunteer work, to get
your foot in the door. Do not forget to thank those who
have helped you along the way.

Medical transcription job opportunities are everywhere; use
some unique strategies to find them. Look for a local
situation that may be of benefit to you. For example, in
the 1990s, the County of Orange in California declared
bankruptcy. I contacted the Sheriff-Coroner's Office only
to discover that all but one full-time medical
transcriptionist had been laid off and there was a nine
month backlog of autopsy reports. Nine months! After
interviewing there and receiving a great reception, I
worked there every Saturday for almost a year and received
a wonderful education in Pathology terminology. This was
the best experience I ever had. Plus, the sole medical
transcriptionist was nearing retirement which put me in a
great position if I were offered the job.

In your search for medical transcription job opportunities,
ask your instructors if they need some help with
transcribing classroom assignments. When I was an MT
student, I remember how bad the assignment copies were.
After I completed the medical transcription course, I word
processed the assignments, corrected the mistakes that had
been in them, and then took them to a print shop for
reprinting and binding. Then I sent these to my medical
transcription instructor. It was a way to thank her for
all she had done for me. I also helped my medical
terminology instructor, who was writing a book. I word
processed the medical reports for her medical terminology
book. I was working full time as a medical transcription
and word processor, but I made the time to pay back these
wonderful professionals who gave me a great education.

Volunteering is a networking strategy used to find
unadvertised medical transcription job opportunities. Not
many people employ this technique. Although you may not
get immediate results from your efforts, people will see
you as a serious medical transcriptionist and admire your
professional tenacity in your job search. The word will
get out that you are looking for a MT job, and soon you
will find what you are looking for: medical transcription
job opportunities.

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Mary Ruff-King is a veteran MT who helps new MTs with tips
on how to find
medical transcription job opportunities. Other tips on how
to find medical transcription jobs are provided at
http://www.MTMasteryCenter.com .