Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a court reporter can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a court reporter already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Court reporters type in word processors or any other software each one of the words mentioned in the courtroom. They transcript the hearings that take place in court in order to issue the official hearings of the legal case. They allow that the case can be further studied by the parties in an accurate fashion.

Also known as shorthand reporter, court stenographer, law reporter, deposition reporter, court recorder, certified shorthand reporter, official court reporter, court transcriber, stenographer, courtroom reporter.

Technicians and associate professionals 26 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: typist, 49%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
typist 49% covered case administrator 39% covered court clerk 33% covered foreign language corresponden… 30% covered legal administrative assistant 29% covered court reporter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from court reporter, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a court reporter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A court reporter needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • type error-free documents information skills
  • use shorthand computer program working with computers
  • use stenotype machines information skills
  • stenography arts and humanities
  • use free typing techniques management skills
  • use shorthand communication, collaboration and creativity
  • transcription methods arts and humanities
  • record court procedures information skills
  • digitise documents working with computers
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a court reporter does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Court reporter is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a court reporter’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.