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What kind of training is required for business or legal transcription?
ByI have curiosity to make transcription work, but certainly know very little about it. Most transcription work I hear a doctor. I would like to know more about other types of transcription work, so training is required and where they can find, how it compares with medical transcription, and so on.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:43 PM
My job is to transcribe the tapes of insurance adjusters do when interviewing people who have made claims against their insurance policies. This type of transcript does not require any special training, but you must be fast, accurate typist, good spelling, and have a really good idea of proper punctuation. Grammar does not matter because you are writing everything people say as they say, bad writing and everything. The benefits are that work from home and some of the tapes at least remotely interesting. The disadvantages are the pay is a kind of low, is paid a piece rate rather than per hour and some of the films are much more than remotely boring!
July 17th, 2009 at 12:51 PM
take some classes in word processing in a local community college. they can enter a career in the legal field as a legal word processor. you can type up correspondence, legal documents (other / discovery), notes, etc for abogados.otro kind of “writing” the race is a court reporter. Working for a company that reports of the court (although I’m not a court reporter.) I hear the pay is great. you can attend depositions and trials and record everything that is being said. have to go to school to obtain certification. this can be achieved at a community college as well.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Each company has its own policy mthodology and employees will be trained accordingly based on their clients requirement and specifications
July 17th, 2009 at 1:59 PM
I’ve been a professional medical writer to go in 20 years. You must be excellent in spelling, grammar and solving puzzles (because people do not speak clearly and have to find out what they are saying). You must be an excellent typist. Other than that, you learn different terminology depending on what type of writer you want to be. It is clear that to be a medical transcriptionst need to learn medical terminology. For legal knowledge is less complicated because the terminology is not as complex or bulky. One of the hardest parts of the transcript is to learn to understand the accents. All this is achieved only with good old days of hard work and time in fashion. There are no shortcuts to “win big at the transcript,” let me tell you.