How Twitter Can Help You Find a Medical Transcription Job?

Social media site Twitter is a double edged tool. The pro being that it’s an amazing tool for you to stay informed even before CNN, Reuters or Associated Press; twitterers were the first informed with Twitter breaking the news of Hudson plane crash. The second pro being it can be used to network with people similar to your likes, profession and industry, while the con being it eats up your time. To tackle the con and to have the advantage of the pros, scheduling and batch processing tweets should help you out.

There are a whole lot of stories all over the web with the successful usage of the microblogging tool Twitter, a coffee shop doubling its clientele, Dell making $1 million and a great list of stories everywhere on the web on how twitter helped in job hunting, which provoked the thought how we could apply these Twitter success stories to medical transcription and medical transcriptionists to find a good employer and to get placed in an organization of your choice and satisfaction, the concept of this post, “How Twitter can help you find a medical transcription job?”

Basically, the secret of all these success stories is to build a quality online social network preferably with contacts in your industry or profession, project yourself online as an expert in your field and then cashing in on the so created brand with the aid of the network. Twitter is just a tool helping you out with these three steps but if you work in a focused manner, success is yours by all means. Don’t worry if you still haven’t heard about Twitter or heard about it but didn’t take the effort to know more about it. To describe it simple, it’s just like your instant messenger and chat room. You can either join an ongoing conversation or shout out to the world the information you want to share! Simple isn’t it?

Here are a few tips in a nutshell that could help you network successfully with Twitter and achieve your goal in finding your dream job:

• Assuming that you still haven’t got a Twitter handle and that you are new to the Twitter world, I’ll begin with simple and easy steps for Twitter beginners.
• Sign up for a Twitter ID, preferably with your real name. If you want, you may add your job description “MT” or “transcriptionist” as you wish along with your ID.
• Log in. Write a short and sweet description of your profile. If you don’t have a website, link to your LinkedIn profile or any online resume that you have.
• Update regularly. You can tweet with a web browser from any computer connected to the internet. Desktop applications like TweetDeck and Twhirl will be helpful if you tweet from only your computer always, or you can tweet from your iPhone if you’re on the move always. You don’t need to spend hours on Twitter or needn’t tweet something new every hour. Even an update a day will do but your tweets need to convey your expertise in the industry. Social Oomph can help you schedule tweets in advance so that your tweets will be flowing in even if you are offline.
• Network. Search Twitter for tweets containing “medical transcription,” “transcription,” “medical transcriptionist,” “transcriptionist” etc. Follow the twitterers of those tweets and their followers but before that, read the next point.



• What I hate most on Twitter is all those personal tweets about day-to-day activities like eating, sleeping, flirting etc. Instead I welcome if it is used for productive purposes like spreading the news, sharing the information that interests you, clearing your doubts etc. So see the recent tweets of people whom you are going to follow before following them. Selectively pick the people you’re going to follow, prefer quality over quantity; else you’ll have boredom with tweet overload. Be worth following and build quality relationships that add value to you and your interests, but most importantly to those people whom you engage with.
• Search Twitter-search-directory Twellow particularly under the transcription category for people involved in transcription industry and follow them.
• I do follow online money making experts who share their experiences for free, blogging experts, and medical transcription industry related people on Twitter. May be you can pick a couple of your interesting ones from my “following” list. You can straight away start with GetMedTransJobs. I’ve seen a couple of tweets from them on medical transcription jobs, even some in India.
• Search for free Twitter job board resources like TwitHire and follow.
• Once you’re active on Twitter with a few hundred or more followers, tweet about your readiness to accept a job of your like, pay, expertise and location. It should find you the job of your choice.
• Find a few more leads to some really helpful advices below.
• Beginners guide to finding a job with Twitter
• How to use Twitter to find your next job?
• Using Twitter to network and find a job
• Leverage Twitter for your job search
• Six step process for finding jobs using Twitter
• 5 secrets of using Twitter to find a job

If Barack Obama can motivate the nation and win presidency with Twitter and social media, can’t we use it to find a job? Share below if you have any other ideas, your Twitter ID, and people you would recommend to follow concerned with transcription on Twitter. Share if you have a success story or if you run into success finding a job through Twitter and do not forget to follow me on Twitter. Good Luck.

PS for freshers: If you’re a newbie aspiring to be a medical transcriptionist, finding a medical transcription job online is not for you, as you need to go through one of those medical transcription training programs offered either by AHDI approved schools or at one of those schools or colleges offering medical transcription training program near by you and then have some on-job experience for a couple of years before hunting for a medical transcription job online.

Update: Advertise your online profile at medical transcriptionists’ profile board by logging in with your Twitter ID.