Jennifer: Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel,
Jennifer Marie vo where I teach you different ways that
you can make money online working from home. If you're
one of my subscribers, you know that a lot of my videos
focus on transcription jobs for beginners, different
transcription platforms and tips and tricks on how to
become a transcriptionist. So last year, in 2020, I did a
review about the application process for GoTranscript,
which was mainly a negative review. In 2020. When I tried
to do the test, the file was absolutely impossible. I had
no idea what the person was saying. It was completely
ridiculous. So I did the first part of the test, which was
multiple choice. And then the audio part, I decided I wasn't
even going to try to do because I literally had no
idea what the person was saying. Now I know that
GoTranscript chooses difficult audio tests, sometimes because
of Cheaters on the internet, who post all of the answers on
the YouTube channel. I never post the answers. Because
first of all, I don't really condone cheating. I think if
you can't get into the platform, you probably
shouldn't be transcribing for them. And also, they make the
test much more difficult once people are cheating, because
they want to discourage you from joining. But since then,
I have been told by a lot of people that the application
process is not as difficult now so I wanted to go through
again, with the same account that I signed up with and try
the test a second time to see if I can get in. So if you
haven't tried already, what you're going to do is go to go
transcript comm slash transcription dash jobs. If
you haven't already applied, you'll click on Apply now and
then choose which one you're trying to apply for. So I'm
trying to be an English transcriptionist. So I will
click on English, then go ahead and sign up with your
details. Or if you already have an account, like I do,
just log in. Now, what you'll do is you'll scroll down to
the bottom again and click on work. And then click on Apply
now. And it should get you to the test. Okay, I don't know
why you have to do that twice. But that's what I had to do
once you've logged into the account. So you'll see it says
apply for transcriber position to apply for the transcriber
position, you must complete the quiz with 100% accuracy
using the GoTranscript guidelines. So basically, they
have a little grammar test for you to fill out. And a lot of
these are really simple. For example, to he my brother, I
mean, all you have to know is the verb to be, He is my
brother. In order to complete the ones I recommend you open
up the guidelines by right clicking and opening it in a
new window. For example, number 10. They say which
sentence is written and capitalized correctly, clean
verbatim. So when you're going through the guidelines, if you
don't really feel like reading through all of the guidelines
to answer this first part of the quiz, you can just go to
the guidelines and press Ctrl plus F on your keyboard to
search and then search for something like clean verbatim.
For example, with the GoTranscript guidelines. They
say slang words must be written as got you instead of
gotcha going to instead of gonna. So got to instead of
gotta Okay, so just try to find quickly, you know the
answers by searching and then you can read through all of
these guidelines more carefully, later on once
you're doing the audio test. So with code transcript, you
don't have to worry about getting the wrong answers.
They just say wrong answers. Try again, wrong answers, try
again. Now one thing I want to mention, each question can
have more than one answer. So for example, for me, number
one, I feel terrible. There's two answers here. So just be
careful with that, because that might be the reason that
you're not getting the answers correct. Now, again, your
questions might be different than mine, GoTranscript will
constantly change the test. And I think it's random,
you're randomly assigned to test. So my test might be
different from yours. So again, I'm not going to
provide the answers. But if you just search in the
transcription guidelines and search in Google, if you
haven't dealt with the grammar, then you're fine.
Also, you don't have to worry about submitting the wrong
answers. You can see I got wrong answers. Try again. So I
tried again and you can keep doing that until you get the
right answers. But it's not that easy to get in. You do
have to read the guidelines, because some of these have
multiple answers. And once you're done the test you can
click Confirm.
Okay, so I passed the first part of the multiple choice
and then you're going to get to this section right here
that says apply for transcriber position. To
become a transcriber you must do our test using our
guidelines you need to transcribe the audio below. In
other words, you need to type everything that you hear.
Also, don't forget to use our transcription rules, the tests
Job needs to be done in clean verbatim without timestamping.
If you want, you can try doing the old test there, you will
see what errors you have made. So this would be a good thing
to do if you want to practice. Again, you can open up the
GoTranscript guidelines and read through them as you're
listening to the file. So this is where I stopped the last
time in 2020. Because after listening to their file, I
thought this is absolutely impossible to transcribe,
because I didn't understand what they were saying at all.
So for this file, when I listened to it, it was very
easy to understand, I understood everything that she
was saying, the only thing that they do is they put in
some background noise, the phone is ringing and different
things like that. So you have to be careful when you're
writing the tags. So okay, when I went through this test,
I understood everything that they were saying, and I think
I did a pretty good job of transcribing the file.
However, there were some things that I was unclear
about. In the guidelines, they talk about how to use
different tags, for example, like I said, phone rings and
background noise. But it wasn't very clear about how
they want you to use those tags. So this is something I'm
going to have to find out. If I do not get accepted into go
transcript. I think it's because I didn't use the tags
correctly. For example, they want you to put phone ringing
on a different line, for example, if a woman was
talking, and then there was a phone ringing in the
background, I don't know how if you would put that on a
separate line and then continue the line, because
that sort of breaks up the transcript. And I don't know
if that's what they want. So I do need to find out some
clarification on that. If you have past GoTranscript and you
want to give us some clarification, in the comments
about what you do, for example, if a woman is talking
and the phone is ringing in the background, would you put
that on a separate line after she finishes speaking? Or
would you break it up? That's something I would like to
know. Aside from that the transcript itself was easy to
understand. There were a few things you had to go in and
look at for example, you know, some of the names you had to
Google how to spell them, make sure to italicize the titles
and things like that. And then once you're done, you can
click on Send it for review. It says once you send us the
completed test, the reviewing process can take up to 60
days. Once our team checks your test, you will get an
email letting you know whether you passed or not. Okay,
again, it says thanks for applying reviewing process can
take up to 60 days. But for those who will share our job
offer it will take up to 30 days. So if you go ahead and
click share or tweets or something like that, then your
transcripts should be reviewed quicker than those who do not
do that. Okay, so then I went through that I shared it and
then it says you have finished the test and wait while we
check it we will send you an email with your results. So
either way, you will find out whether or not you have passed
this test. But you might have to wait up to 30 or 60 days
depending on if you shared it or not. And now I just want to
quickly go over some of the basic transcription
guidelines. So something to know with GoTranscript you
must have a PayPal or Payoneer account as that is how they
make payments. And this is good for a lot of people who
cannot get PayPal in their country, but they can get
Payoneer payments are made every weekend on Friday. They
also cover the PayPal fee so you don't have to pay any fees
and you get the exact amount that you earned. And then here
you can see the different format descriptions full
verbatim and then clean verbatim. So I would recommend
really just studying the clean verbatim because that is what
you need to know for the transcription audio test. They
have an example right here of fv which is full verbatim
versus clean verbatim. And then again, they have the time
stamping types but you do not need to timestamp for the
transcription test. And then here they have major rules so
make sure you're not to break any of these different rules
when you are doing the test. Here it says always use a
speaker label even if there is just one speaker. And this is
what I was talking about earlier with the sound events.
This is where I was confused by it says sounds that the
speaker makes are always on the same line and always in
the present tense snaps fingers phone rings. But then
it says chorus like laughter applause cheering and sounds
not from the speaker like phone ringing, coughing etc
are always on a separate line.
And that is what I was confused about a need to find
out from GoTranscript or I'm asking my subscribers if you
work for GoTranscript, can you please clarify this for us? If
I don't get accepted into go transcript, I think it's
because I messed up these tags here. Okay, so that is my only
real concern but hopefully you'll get an audio file that
doesn't have the phone ringing and so you can follow the
guide the other guidelines They have here. Again, these
numbers, you'll need to know this. I think in the test,
they like to use some numbers and years and things like
that, to make sure that you're following these rules. You'll
also need to know this for the multiple choice as you can see
here with money. They have exceptions made for
readability, you can see here $1, one grand is 1005 bucks
is, you know, $5 eight quid is eight pounds like this. So
just make sure to go through all of these. Okay, so that is
basically it for the application process, I went
through this and they might get back to me within 30 days
or within 60 days, so I won't be able to update this video
until I get through that. I am going to consider doing a more
in depth guidelines video once I get some clarification from
GoTranscript about the tags. So stay tuned for more videos
like that. And if you are working for GoTranscript and
you want to give us your help or your advice on, you know
some of these rules, especially with the tags,
please write in the comment section below. That is
something that will definitely help viewers trying to take
the test. But as if I'm comparing this test the
quality of the audio and how easy it was to understand it
is much clearer and much easier to understand. Now in
2021, then the application tests that they had in 2020,
which I didn't even bother trying to submit because it
was impossible to hear the audio. So it sounds to me like
now they have a new woman who is a native English speaker
who is reading different scripts to have a whole bunch
of different tests so they are understandable, it's easier to
understand them and hopefully the test won't be that
difficult and I will be able to get in to get a look at
what it looks like once you have been accepted. So that's
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