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Preparing for Your First Reporting Job

Preparing for Your First Reporting Job By Melissa Lee, A.S., CCR, CRI You can “live and learn,” as they say, each of life’s lessons on your own; or you can learn to live from the successes and failures of others before you. Keeping the latter in mind, along with the preparedness training you have received […]

INCRA – Become Involved

INCRA – Become Involved Court reporting can be a very isolated career. We go to depositions or to court and then we go home to produce the transcript. Court reporting school can be very solitary as well. You attend class a few times a week, but then you are left to practice on your own. […]

Why I Want to be a Court Reporter

Why I Want to be a Court ReporterBy: Gabrielle MosherMCRA Scholarship Winner! Gabrielle Mosher recently applied and was awarded the Mississippi Court Reporters Association Scholarship. Read her Essay below…. “Why I Want To Be A Court Reporter” . Throughout my life, my mother has always been a great inspiration to me. I can think of […]

11 Questions To Ask When Searching For A Nontraditional Educational Program

11 Questions To Ask When Searching For A Nontraditional Educational Program As I mentioned in my last blog, “To DIY or Not To DIY? That is the Question,” thinking about someone entering a professional work world with anything less than a formal education makes my eye start twitching. That said, I do understand this is […]

CCR Alumni Spotlight: Heidi Masters

CCR Alumni Spotlight: Heidi Masters Place you hang your hat? Erie, Pennsylvania Arguably one of the best days of your life (aka graduation date!)? January 29, 2016 Lucky employer? Ferguson & Holdnack Reporting, Inc. Title? Court Reporter Certs? RPR How did you get interested in court reporting? I really had no idea what I […]

Questions to Ask a Court Reporting Firm Before Saying, “I Do.”

Questions to Ask a Court Reporting Firm Before Saying, “I Do.” I’ve worked in career services for 12 years. Half of that time I worked for law schools, and the other half I’ve worked for a court reporting school. While the general questions asked of me about interviewing are typically the same, the substance of […]

Graduate Spotlight – Summer Vaughan

Graduate Spotlight Welcome to National Court Reporting & Captioning Week 2018! College of Court Reporting (CCR) loves to share alumni stories because we are so proud of their accomplishments. We all know completing court reporting school is not an easy journey, but our alumni not only succeed in that endeavor but move on to attain […]

Alumni Spotlight – Marlana Haig, RPR, CRI

College of Court Reporting (CCR) loves to share alumni stories because we are so proud of their accomplishments. Completing court reporting school can be a challenge. Our alumni not only succeed in that endeavor but move on to attain awesome positions in the profession. This month CCR is proud to welcome Marlana Haig to our […]

Alumni Spotlight – Hannah J. Musgrave

CCR Student Spotlight: Stephanie Oldeck

By: Stephanie Oldeck, NCRA CASE scholarship winner. Why I Will Be a Great Court Reporter The position of court reporter serves an important purpose within the court system. Court reporters are under constant pressure to perform, they must be able to multitask and juggle strict deadlines, and they must have constant discipline. I possess many […]