AccuTran Global Questionnaire
Please read the following before completing the questionnaire:
Our absolute minimum typing speed for transcription is 60 wpm, with 70 preferred. Please DO NOT CONTINUE if you do not meet this minimum requirement.
Typing speed:
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We currently have a need for transcribers with a consistent minimum availability of three hours in the 4 a.m. to 2 p.m.timeframe (Eastern), the 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. timeframe (Eastern), as well as transcribers who are experienced and comfortable with European and Australian accents.
We also have a need for experienced transcribers who would like to progress beyond straight transcription and train as scopists, reviewers and editors.
Please follow all instructions carefully while completing the test.
After having reviewed the descriptions in the information provided, please list by number the departments you are interested in:______.
If you have not read the general information about the opportunities we offer, please stop and return to the JOBS link and read through the general information for all open positions.
- Transcription
- Scoping
- Reviewer
- Editing
Please fill in the following information:
Date:
Your name:
Email:
Contact telephone:
Time Zone:
City/Province or State if in North America:
Country:
Our peak periods occur four times a year (October 20th, January 20th, April 20th and July 20th) and run for approximately four to five weeks. Are you able to commit to working during all four peak periods?
Number of hours per week you’d be willing to commit during peak reporting season?
Availability: Please list your availability in Eastern Time.
Work is available from as early as 4:00 a.m. Eastern to as late as 3:00 a.m. Eastern. Our busiest times of day for transcription are 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern and 4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern.
If you are interested in working in multiple departments, please include ALL availability, as other positions involve work at other times.
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Note: Please ensure you have answered the above accurately with the understanding that our work flow requires fast turnaround times. The expectation is that work will be picked up promptly, completed and returned and you will continue to work until we are done or you have reached the end of your availability.
Can you commit to at least 3 hours during one or both of the following time frames daily, especially Tuesday through Thursday and Friday morning?
8:00 a.m. Eastern – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
4:00 p.m. Eastern – 7:30 p.m. Eastern
Wednesdays and Thursdays are our absolute busiest days of the week during peak reporting season. What is your maximum available number of hours if necessary?
Wednesday:
Thursday:
What is your minimum hourly expectation for compensation once trained?
Please be advised our work is cyclical in nature and while full-time equivalent is available during peak reporting seasons, in the off months there is no guarantee of work. Please provide us with a brief description of how this fits in with your current long-term employment goals.
On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being no knowledge and 10 being extremely knowledgeable, what do you consider to be your computer literacy?
Please tell us what operating system are you running on your PC? (XP, Vista, Windows 7,Windows 8 or specify if you’re running on a Mac.)
Age of primary computer you will be using for transcription?
Which of the following do you have personal experience with (no assistance from others)? Bold all that apply.
- Install software
- Install hardware such as speakers or foot pedals
- Download/upload files to and from the Internet
- Saving files in different formats
What accounting/finance education or experience do you have, especially related to terminology?
Please list any additional education or experience you have in banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, electronics, real estate or manufacturing.
Are you fluent in and able to transcribe in a second language? If so, which language?
Do you have experience with transcribing accented English? Which accents would you consider yourself proficient with?
Please tell us more about your transcription experience:
How long would it take you to transcribe (approximately) 10 minutes of quality audio?
Do you have experience with medical transcription?
Do you have any transcription equipment such as audio control pedals?
What software do you presently use for transcription, if any?
How did you hear about us?
Comments or questions:
Please complete the following. Ensure you read all instructions carefully.
Transcription Test
Openthe audio from theaudiolink found on theJOBS page on our website. Transcribe theapproximately three minutes of audioand title as Trans Test followed by your name. Paste the text in the space below.
For those of you with transcription software, you may right click on the audiolink, save the audio to your computer and transcribe from your software.
For those of you without transcription software, we realize you will have to just play the mp3 and start and stop it manually – that’s okay. This is just to see if you’re able to hear the speech.
Please read and follow the instructions carefully.
- No paragraph indentations
- Use % sign instead of word “percent”
- Enter a space then [ph] after any words or names you’re not certain of the spelling of. Spell and mark words with [ph] rather than using the [indiscernible] marking when at all possible.
- Enter [indiscernible] for any words you can’t even hazard a guess at. Use sparingly – we grade according to how many of these we see, versus spelling a word and marking with [ph].
- DO NOT stop and look anything up on the Internet
- Please time yourself and enter time at bottom of text in brackets.
Trans Test – enter text here
Punctuation & Spelling / General Grammar / Comprehension Test
Punctuation and Spelling
Correct the following text for punctuation, spelling, numbers and capitalization, but not for grammar or sentence structure:
- All numbers are to be written out as digits.
- All company divisions and segments capitalized as titles.
- All dollar figures formatted properly.
- Use % instead of percent.
- Please time yourself and enter time at bottom of text in brackets.
Thanks Harvey. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us to day. Please turn in you’re Power Point presentation to the first slide. We have accomplished a great deal in the fourth quarter. We've had strong signings in global services. We've paid for PWC consulting, we've sold our HDD business. Were fully funded in our US pension plan, we've improved our execution on working capital. And as you have already seen from our press release, are fourth quarter results came in better than expected. We grew revenue from continuing operations, seven percent to $23.7 billion. 3 months ago, investors were very concerned about our ability too deliver 12 percent sequential growth, from the third quarter, excluding PWC consulting. We exceeded that with 13 percent sequential growth. This fourth quarter revenue is a statement about our leadership in the current economic environment. We also delivered in the fourth quarter, $2.7 billion in pretax profit, as reported including profitable results in our technology and in personal systems segments.
Although the fourth quarter began as a week one, it improved to the point where we expect continued share gains in key businesses. However we had earnings per share, from continuing operations of a dollar 34. We'll take you through a bridge on that in a few moments. $4.5 billion in free cash flow, after putting 2.1 billion of cash into our pension fund, and the cash and core debt ratios of our balance sheet came in better than we had expected. But weather or not you look at quarterly records historically the third quarter surpassed all expectations. The consistency of these results in the third-quarter and prior quarters this, year is not an accident. We have been executing, on a series of leadership initiatives, designed to deliver results with 2 characteristics. Great consistency in weak economic environments, and profitable growth as the economy turns. Included in those results were certain charges, associated with the PWC consulting transaction, that the street excluded from there models.
General Grammar
Please read each sentence and choose the word from inside the parentheses that fits the context of the sentence. Delete the incorrect word(s). Do not change the font colour or remove the parentheses.
There will be some markets where – some territories where (its/it’s) less doable. That's a fact.
If you use maybe a number like $0.5 billion as a measurement tool, you'll see that when (there/they're/their) below that (there/they’re/their) bottom line EBITDA is lower than when (there/they're/their) above that number.
Meetic is doing a great job on all of (its/it’s) optimizations.
So as you (add/ad) items to your basket, you can scan them, put them in your basket, see a running total of your shopping experience, walk to a register, scan a QR code, pay with your credit card or cash, and be out the door.
Our fourth priority is to unlock value within our portfolio through sales or joint ventures and to realize value from our long-dated (exploration/expiration) projects.
So our focus for growth is to grow our Timberlands position where we can find opportunities to make smart acquisitions that will generate increased cash flow that will be (complementary/complimentary) to our existing Timberlands position.
We grew the sales force from 40 individuals to about 275 quote-(bearing/baring) individuals.
Achieving these (principals/principles) should be constrained only by limitations of law, technology, and evolving social norms.
But we also believe that part of our current trading price is (effected/affected) by the general market, which I think is inflated by macro drivers.
This argument certainly (resonates/resinates) with some of your respondents, and with many in the country, but it doesn't withstand scrutiny.
Operators with higher (presidents/precedence/precedents) are evaluated first.
Our current television (add/ad) campaign will finish the third week of this month.
And the gap could be that, yeah, we're solvent for the policy holder, but what (effect/affect) does it have on the economy and the financial system.
Timed Comprehension Test
We would like to get an idea of your basic business comprehension.
Quickly, and without doing any research, complete the sentences below with the terms listed. Enter the term from the list beside the appropriate definition, not the number. Make your best guess if you are uncertain.
- There are 28 sentences, 29 terms. One sentence has two terms, and all terms will be used.
- Please time yourself and enter time at bottom of text in brackets.
- A company may have smaller units, or own smaller companies, which are called
- A measurement could also be called a
- A statement of what a company brought in and paid out is called an
- A statement of what a company owns and owes is called a
- Another word for laying off staff is
- How much cash you spend is called your cash
- Litigation is a synonym for a
- Money coming in and going out is called
- The money paid as earnings to shareholders of a corporation is called a
- Something you own is called an
- The method by which you plan to make money with your company is called your
- The people who buy your products and services are your
- The physical places you have your business operations are called your
- The process of purchasing can be called
- The purchase of something, like another company, is called an
- The way a company plans to get bigger is called its
- The money you pay someone when you terminate them is called
- When a company is researching and developing a product, a drug for example, that might be called a development
- When a situation is changing, it is ______or in______
- When something brings you income, it may be referred to as a
- When something goes through different phases over time, we say it is
- When two entities combine and have the ability to be more than the sum of their parts, that might be called
- When you have a supply of aircraft or cars, that is called a
- When you introduce a new product or service, you might call that a
- When you no longer run a particular business, it would be called a
- When you owe money, you have a
- When you tell people how much money you think you’re going to earn in an upcoming period, that’s called giving
- When your closet is full, you might say you are at 100%
- lawsuit
- acquisition
- asset
- balance sheet
- burn rate
- business model
- capacity utilization
- cash flow
- client base
- cyclical
- debt
- discontinued operation
- dividend
- fleet
- flux
- geographic reach
- growth strategy
- guidance
- headcount reduction
- income statement
- metric
- pipeline
- procurement
- revenue driver
- rollout
- severance pay
- subsidiaries
- synergy
- transitional
Thank you again for your interest in AccuTran Global. We appreciate the time you have spent completing our questionnaire and testing materials; however, only those meeting our initial thresholds will be contacted with respect to training.