Keyboard Operators

Key Tasks

• •Entering data and codes required to process information
• •Retrieving, confirming and updating data in storage and keeping records of data input
• •Taking verbatim records of proceedings in rapid shorthand using computerised equipment and shorthand-writing machines
• •Transcribing information recorded in shorthand and on sound recording equipment, and proofreading and correcting copy
• •Reading portions of transcripts during trials and other proceedings on request of judges and other officials
• •Reproducing the spoken word, environmental sounds and song lyrics as captions for television programming, and the deaf and hearing impaired
• •Preparing reports, letters and similar material for publication and electronic transmission
• •Sorting outgoing material and preparing documents for transmission

Employment Projections to 2034