National Court Reporting & Captioning Week Part 4: What advice would you give to court reporting students?

National Court Reporting and Captioning Week is being celebrated February 14-20.  The week-long event is designed to celebrate the court reporting and captioning professions and to help raise public awareness about the growing number of employment opportunities the career offers.  In recognition of the outstanding court reporters PohlmanUSA has the opportunity to work with each and every day, we wanted to highlight their responses to questions we posed surrounding their profession.

Today’s question was, “What advice would you give to court reporting students?” Here’s how they answered:

I would advise reporting students to fine-tune their vocabulary and punctuation skills and to read a variety of things in order to broaden their overall knowledge base.  Reader’s Digest is a wonderful, easy-to-read periodical that includes vocabulary, stories, and news from many different fields.  Finger drills are also important to build dexterity. – Mary G

Practice well (don’t just bang on the machine), read back to yourself and be disciplined in your practice sessions.  Practice, practice, practice. – Bo K

I would tell court reporting students to keep practicing and never give up! – Julia B

My advice to students would be to learn the time-saving steps your software can do for you, and practice, practice, practice. – Jean P

Practice, practice, practice!  Give it your all so you can get out of school and into the field.  We need you, and we want you! – Deborah M

Know your dictionary. And, practice, practice, practice. – Dianna H

Stick with it.  It’s very challenging.  There will always be certain speed levels where you just can’t seem to get past, but once you finally break through it, you will see that all things are possible.  It just takes time and dedication to practicing as much as you possibly can while going through school. – Dawn B

For more information about court reporting, visit http://www.ncra.org/. For more information about starting a career in court reporting, please visit us at http://pohlmanusa.com/.