National Court Reporting & Captioning Week Part 5: What is your professional goal for 2016?

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 is your professional goal for 2016?” Here’s how they answered:

To write cleaner than I ever have, and to be able to turnaround quicker. Also to learn as much as I can this year about my software and what it can do. – Julie H

To earn my RPR and CRR. – Maria S

At least one more certification, and also trying to get non-members to join the Missouri Court Reporters Association so we can stay alive and well.  Every reporter should be a member! – Deborah M

I’m working on improving my writing.  It’s very hard to train your fingers and brain to write differently on the fly when you’ve been writing a certain way for going on 17 years.  I now bring a 4-page cheat sheet on jobs and lay it on my laptop to refer to.  It’s words and briefs I’m trying to improve on.  Once I get them down, I add more to my list!  It’s a never-ending daunting task! – Dawn B

My goal for 2016 is geared more towards my future.  I’m very interested in the captioning field further down the road, so my plan is to learn more about that, take a seminar, maybe seek out people in that field to hear more about it. – Kathy O

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/.