Friday, June 11, 2010

recruiting excellent transcribers: personality and attitude

Experience shows . . .

    Be sure to get work references from your candidates, and call the reference directly to ask about the candidate's work ethic, reliability, ability to problem-solve and handle work stress, ability to get along with others, ability to learn new tasks/materials, etc. 

    If you are familiar with traits that make a good sign language interpreter, use those as guides for what makes a good transcriber.  Ideally, you want a person with the professionalism, smarts, and people skills that you'd look for when hiring a new sign language interpreter. 

Transcribers said . . .

    "I think the best transcribers are not motivated most by money or other external factors."

    "No paternalistic attitudes, such as wanting to 'help the poor deaf students'."

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