In case you missed here, here’s Part One. In stark contrast to M-TEC and Andrews, Career Step does very little in the way of hands-on instruction. You are given dictation to do online, and when you finish, you paste the transcript into the CS website, and the computer grades the transcript automatically. You get instantaneous feedback, but that feedback isn’t always correct. Despite what every sci-fi movie portrays, computers aren’t, as of yet, as smart as people, so the computer would mark things as wrong that really weren’t. An great example of this would be the following sentence, written three … Continue reading →

I just covered a question I get often: How many students at Career Step get a job quickly after graduation? Now I thought I would cover the second most common question that I receive from readers in the comment section and in the e-mails sent to me (I have actually received quite a few e-mails from readers wanting more info, and I’m always glad to answer those e-mails, so if you ever want to ask me a question, feel free to e-mail me at Hava L {at} Families dot com.) That question is: Why is there such a price difference … Continue reading →

If you missed Part One, check it out here. If you look at the list of reasons why a student wouldn’t get a job right away (can’t work full-time, has to have a very flexible schedule, doesn’t have high-speed Internet) you’ll notice that none of these reasons relate to Career Step at all. CS doesn’t have control over whether you have kids or dial-up or work full-time. The bottom line is, there is a high demand for medical transcriptionists right now, and as long as you can pass the various company tests, you’ll have no problem finding a job. So … Continue reading →

I thought I had finished up with the medical transcription series a while ago but I continue to get e-mails and comments with questions that I guess I forgot to answer the first time around (how, I don’t know, because I wrote over 50 blogs on the subject, but I still managed to somehow skip over some things. I think it must be some sort of heretofore untapped “talent” or something. Not a particularly useful talent, but there you go.) I get two questions frequently, so I thought I would answer one in this blog, and one in the next: … Continue reading →