What's the use of shorthand?

A stenographer is a person who uses shorthand technology to collect phonetic information in real time and generate electronic texts. CCTV Oriental Time and Space, Beijing TV Intercity Express, Beijing Express, Capital Economic Report, Financial Times, Sohu.com, Sina.com, Qianlong News Network, Huaxi Dushi Bao, Chengdu Business Daily, Tianfu Morning Post and Chengdu Evening News reported on the computer shorthand industry successively, and pointed out that it was a "simple" employment field.

At present, stenographers play their special recording skills mainly in the following fields: first, court trial records and inquiry records in the judicial system; The second is the on-site records of seminars and symposiums from all walks of life; Third, the on-site records of office meetings of government departments and all walks of life; The fourth is the webcast of the conference; Fifth, the website interviews guests, and the online text is broadcast live; Sixth, the whole process of diplomatic, official and commercial negotiations; Seventh, lectures, speeches, cross talks and other content records. The scope of work is quite extensive.

job description

China shorthand has been born for more than 100 years. Traditional shorthand is that professionals manipulate a symbol and convert language information into text information. Because of the uniqueness of symbols, recorded information must be sorted out. This speed is difficult to meet the needs of some specific occasions, and now a new service-computer shorthand is born, that is, the process of continuously collecting voice information and converting it into electronic text information in real time. "Words make words, sounds make symbols" is the best summary of the speed of computer shorthand.

In foreign countries, shorthand and shorthand recording skills are one of the basic skills necessary for secretaries. There are 5 million stenographers in the United States, and almost 1 0,000% of the courts use stenographers for on-site recording. In Japan, Germany, France, Britain and other countries, fast recording technology has been widely used.

At present, it has become an indisputable fact that the shorthand recording market in China is promising, but the shortage of professional shorthand recording talents has also become an urgent demand in this industry. It is understood that a computer shorthand company offers a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan, and it is still difficult to recruit enough computer stenographers. On the website of a stenographer service company in Shenzhen, an advertisement with an annual salary of 654.38+0.2 million yuan was advertised for the recruitment of super stenographers. Attractive salary naturally attracts many job seekers, but in the face of the quotation that the employer types more than 240 words per minute, many job seekers can only hope and sigh, and finally the employer is also in vain.

According to Wang, a stenographer of Zhengzhou Mingyu Electronic Stenography Company, there are only a few hundred stenographers in the national market who can independently complete the stenographer task of large-scale conferences, mainly distributed in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Some small cities often need stenographer services, but there are no stenographers to hire. In addition, the existing stenographers are mostly concentrated in state organs such as courts, and the stenographers engaged in commercial services in society are even scarcer, so the demand for stenographers will increase greatly in the next decade. China should also need 500,000 speed recorders, and there is a huge talent gap.

On the other hand, the training of a stenographer takes about 18 months to 24 months, which is generally divided into three stages: the first stage is about one month, practicing Chinese character input and mastering shorthand skills; The second stage lasts about 3 to 4 months, and the practice of inputting articles is mainly financial news; The third stage, listen to the performance, read the article or listen to the radio and television news, and take notes. The speed is from slow to fast. The training of stenographers is rather boring, and some students will quit halfway, which objectively leads to a high elimination rate. It is not surprising that the training period is long and the elimination rate is high.

Occupational income

It is understood that the maximum input speed of speed recording can reach 520 words/minute. When the input speed exceeds 200 words/minute, it is completely possible to realize "the voice falls, the recording is completed, and the manuscript is completed". In Beijing, this kind of speed recorder usually charges 65,438 yuan +0, 200 yuan/day (within 7 hours) for simultaneous recording of meetings. If it is settled by the hour, the hourly fee will not be lower than that in 200 yuan. Shanghai and Shenzhen, which just started, charge higher fees, which are 1500 yuan/day (within 7 hours) and about 3,000 yuan/day respectively. The average monthly income of stenographers is about 4000 yuan, and the peak period of business can exceed 10 thousand yuan.

Training and certification

Speed recording depends on a special input machine and can be employed after corresponding training. As long as you have a secondary school education and a certain foundation in Mandarin, you can participate in the training.

In 2003, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security promulgated the national professional standard for speed recorders. The new professional standards are divided into three grades: speed recorder, speed recorder and senior speed recorder. * * * Set up four modules: recording preparation, voice information collection, word processing and related basic knowledge. Compared with the original speed recording grade certificate, the new standard requires higher vocational skills for students. Typing per minute increased from more than 80 words at the primary level to more than 140 words, from more than 80 words at the intermediate level to more than 180 words, and from more than 220 words at the advanced level. Normal people's speech speed is about 200 words per minute, and professional broadcasting can even reach 300 words. The recording speed must meet this standard.