Court Reporter
- Capture and preserve crucial legal proceedings with precision and accuracy.
- Ensure justice by providing accurate transcripts for courts and legal entities.
- Use advanced technology to create real-time captions for the hearing-impaired.
💰 Earn $62K-$131K
📚 Vocational Training
Overview
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.Scoop
Good (Increasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.
- Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.
- Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.
- Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.
- Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Influencing or leading others
- Using data or completing tasks
You are skilled in 💫
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Accomplishing things
- Personal relationships
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