Court Reporters and Medical Transcriptionists
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Job description
Court Reporters record and transcribe proceedings for various judicial actors (judges, courts, etc.).
Medical Transcriptionists record, transcribe, and edit dictated data (surgical procedures, health-related reports, etc.).
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Court Reporters
- Record verbatim the proceedings of courts, legislatures, committees, etc.
- Reread the transcript of the evidence presented when court is in session.
- Transcribe the recorded deliberations according to the established format.
- Verify the accuracy of transcripts, judgments, and citations.
- Provide transcripts to judges, lawyers, and others who request them.
- File and arrange the stenographic records of court proceedings.
Medical Transcriptionists
- Transcribe recorded or written data (medical reports, correspondence, health records, etc.) according to established formats.
- Correct typographical and grammatical errors.
- Ensure that transcribed texts are free of incorrect or missing information or formatting errors.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility between court reporters and legal secretaries.
- There is some mobility between medical transcriptionists and medical secretaries.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
2,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 92.9% Female
- 7.1% Male
Not available.
- 92.9% Female
- 7.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$46,400
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62363% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5621% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54123% of jobs
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NAICS 513% of jobs
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Others6% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62363% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5621% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 54123% of jobs
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NAICS 513% of jobs
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Others6% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
AVS in secrétariat médical
Code : 5374
Placement rate: 84.9%
5.4% of graduates pursue further studies
College
Sometimes required
- Knowledge of a foreign language may be required or an asset.
Court Reporters
- Certification as a Certified Stenographer may be required.
- A college diploma in court reporting is usually required.
Medical Transcriptionists
- Certification as a Certified Medical Transcriptionist may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Written expression
- Reading comprehension
- Time management
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Speech recognition
- Selective attention
- Near vision
- Written comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Digital dexterity
- Hearing sensitivity
- Speech clarity
- Control accuracy
- Deductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Focussed on results
- Perseverance
- Knowledge of the French language
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Rigour
- Attention to detail
- Tolerance to stress
- Capacity for synthesis
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Patience
- Tolerance to routine work
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Official name of the NOC 12110
Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations
Job titles
- Court reporter
- Transcriber
- Medical dictatypist
- Stenotype operator
- Dictatypist
- Media transcriptionist
- Closed captioner
- Court monitor
- Court recorder
- Hansard reporter
- Braille technician
- Braille transcriber
- Media transcriber
- Braille volumes transcriber
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
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