Court Reporters
Also called: Court Reporter, Official Court Reporter, Freelance Court Reporter, Court Stenographer
What they do:
Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.
On the job, you would:
- Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.
- Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.
- Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
Arts and Humanities
Business
Engineering and Technology
Safety and Government
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Basic Skills
Problem Solving
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Verbal
Attention
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People interested in this work like activities that include
data, detail, and regular routines. They do well at jobs that need:
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You might use software like this on the job: Word processing software
Data base user interface and query software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
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