The Industry Outlook Report from the NCRA indicates job demand for these realtime careers is on the rise! A brand-new report issued by independent researchers definitively highlights that court reporters and captioners are in demand, both now and even more in the future.
The Ducker Report, and the Take Note campaign conducted by the National Court Reporters Association, projects there will be a pending surge in job opportunities, with 5,500 new court reporting and closed captioning jobs anticipated over the next 5 years.
Anyone currently in these fields, or training to enter these careers, will have lifetime job security and lucrative income potential.
Voice reporting and captioning comprises less than 4% of court reporting and captioning jobs. Our surveys have found the large majority of captioning and court reporting firms prefer steno machine realtime writers.
According to the Ducker Worldwide report Steno machine reporters are the overwhelming choice of attorneys, judges, and captioning companies making a day-to-day judgement of the best method for captioning the spoken word and converting it to text