Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a scopist can go next

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

Scopists edit the transcripts created by court reporters in order to make of them a readable professional legal document. They listen or read to the reports given to them in order to apply punctuation, missing words, format, and improve the accuracy of the document.

Also known as freelance scopist.

Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: typist, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
typist 51% covered case administrator 39% covered court clerk 33% covered legal administrative assistant 31% covered foreign language corresponden… 30% covered scopist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from scopist, 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 scopist 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 scopist needs 13 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
  • stenography arts and humanities
  • study court hearings information skills
  • type texts from audio sources communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use free typing techniques management skills
  • transcription methods arts and humanities
  • use dictionaries information skills
  • legal terminology business, administration and law
  • provide written content communication, collaboration and creativity
  • spelling arts and humanities
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Scopist 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 scopist’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.