Keyboard Operators

What the job involves

• 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