2-5 CAPTIONING / TRANSCRIPTION / INTERNET OPPORTUNITIES

CAPTIONING: With the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act into law, court reporting graduates are finding new job opportunities for themselves in captioning in the classroom, at seminars, during church services, at doctor's appointments, etc. The graduate is now being given the opportunity to pursue other career options in the reporting field other than freelance and court work.

TRANSCRIPTION: Text entry software allows you to virtually replace the PC keyboard with your steno writer, which means that you can do anything on a Windows 95 PC much, much faster than with a conventional keyboard. Put simply, text entry software is an open invitation for success.

In an age where everything is newer, better and faster, the ability to produce transcripts of meetings, telephone calls, reports and more into all common Windows 95/NT document formats with a minimal turnaround is a much needed service. There are existing applications for almost every business and now you can bring your skill to these different tasks. Remember, if it requires entering information at a keyboard, you can do it faster!

INTERNET: The Internet has created a whole new world of opportunities and jobs that could only be imagined a few years ago. Using the World Wide Web, it is now possible to communicate with hundreds or even thousands of individuals around the world.

The realtime transmission of text on the Internet is becoming more and more popular. It is like captioning, but without the simultaneous broadcast of sound and video. Political debates, presentations and shareholders' meetings are just a few of the events that are already utilizing this facility. The Internet is also creating new businesses for busy professionals away from their office. They can phone in a record, a letter, report or proposal and within minutes the typed document will be e-mailed to them.

A virtual secretary on the Internet. Opportunities on the web are only limited by your ability to imagine what is possible.