Providing facilities and encouragement to students wanting to find information reporting work outside the school will keep them dedicated to their chosen profession and make them valuable ambassadors for your school. This section is a short guide about assisting students who want to "go it alone" and find their own information reporting employment.

4.1 OBTAINING WORK

Tell them to look at any task that involves inputting to the computer and to ask themselves if they can do that with text entry software and the shorthand machine. The answer is probably yes. There are three main alternatives for finding employment as an information reporter:

AGENCY - EMPLOYER -GO INDEPENDENT