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Court reporter — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants · Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · Word Processors and Typists · File Clerks · Correspondence Clerks · Medical Transcriptionists · Office Clerks, General
In the official classification#
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
Administrative and executive secretaries
Fit with this page: broader than this page
Verbatim reporter
Fit with this page: same job
What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 27-3092.00 (Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Time ManagementImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- Quality Control AnalysisImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingSomewhat important
- Operation and ControlSomewhat important
- Judgment and Decision MakingSomewhat important
- CoordinationSomewhat important
- Operations MonitoringSomewhat important
Knowledge
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Computers and ElectronicsVery important
- AdministrativeVery important
- Law and GovernmentVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- TelecommunicationsImportant
Work activities
- Documenting/Recording InformationExtremely important
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkVery important
- Performing Administrative ActivitiesVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionExtremely important
- Speech RecognitionExtremely important
- Written ExpressionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- WritingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- SpeakingImportant
- MonitoringImportant
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 5 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 4 match at least one. 1 are not in O*NET's list for this occupation. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Recording court proceedingsRecord information from legal proceedings.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Documenting/Recording Information · O*NET 31.0
- Producing and editing transcriptsProofread documents, records, or other files to ensure accuracy.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Editor and proofreader
- Swearing in and certifying the recordAdminister oaths to court participants.covers part of this task · Performing Administrative Activities · O*NET 31.0Verify accuracy of records.covers part of this task · Processing Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Compliance officer · Tax preparer · Insurance underwriter
- Reporting depositionsRecord information from legal proceedings.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Documenting/Recording Information · O*NET 31.0
- Live captioningNone of the activities O*NET lists for this occupation covers this task.
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Perform live captioning services for meetings or events.New task · 2026-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0
- Transmit real-time feeds to judges and attorneys during proceedings.New task · 2026-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
28 U.S.C. § 753(b)
subsection (b): proceedings recorded verbatim by shorthand, mechanical means, electronic sound recording or any other method · may · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) → Recording court proceedings
subsection (b): the reporter or other designated individual attaches the official certificate · must · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Swearing in and certifying the record
1982-04-02 · the record →California Government Code section 69957
electronic recording only in limited civil, misdemeanor or infraction cases when no official reporter is available; not otherwise · must not · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Recording court proceedings
2013-01-01 · the record →Guide to Judiciary Policy, Vol. 6: Court Reporting
chapter 3: electronic sound recording authorised from January 1984; bankruptcy courts ordinarily use it · may · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) → Recording court proceedings
2023-11-03 · the record →SB 662 (2023–2024)
may · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) → Recording court proceedings
2024-02-01 · the record →Recording of Evidence Act 1962
a transcription produced by a recorder is received as evidence; recorder means a person who carries out a recording service · defines · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Swearing in and certifying the record
2024-12-05 · the record →AB 1189 (2025–2026)
may · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Swearing in and certifying the record · Reporting depositions
2026-01-31 · the record →Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
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- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.