I recently applied for a job with Rev.com because its marketing makes it seem as though it's great for people who are newbies at transcription. I have a thorough grammar background, though I'm somewhat easy with commas, em dashes, and ellipses, and I never know how people who are judging this sort of thing might receive my work. Anyway, long story short, I didn't get the job and was notified within a day. I decided perhaps I'd been over-confident about the whole thing, especially because the first two sections of the application are so simple. I'm not taking the rejection too hard because, like I said before, I know that's the name of the game, but I am going to try to be more careful. I've gathered from reading some other posts and sites (including Glassdoor) that this is pretty typical with Rev.com -- people post transcriptions they're fairly confident in, only to be rejected without any indication of what they did wrong. So, I'm wondering, does anyone have any general transcription resources, or any alternative sites? Or, does anyone know what sort of things they look for in a good piece of transcription?
I do know that there was one word which was inaudible to me. The sample involved some people talking about wooden poles, and there was one part where a woman says "so it's like a wooden ..." and it sounds like she says "dagger," or "dag," but neither seemed to make sense in context. I listened again and again, but never quite understood, so I just marked it as inaudible. I think that almost certainly hurt my odds. Also, at one point, I heard a voice I didn't recognize, but marked it as one of three speakers, even though I think it could've been a fourth. And, finally, I originally transcribed all the false starts and "uh" and "ums" because I was trying to transcribe 100%. I even transcribed one guy sneezing and a woman saying bless you. I then went back and read over the guidelines and saw that they advised light editing for false starts. So I deleted all of...