People trained as court reporters fill a variety of specialized positions that utilize their unique skill set. Here's an overview of several different careers that court reporting students can choose to pursue after graduation:

Judicial Court Reporter
This is the job that most people think of when they envision court reporting. Judicial court reporters work in courtrooms converting words spoken during trials and other courtroom proceedings into text for use by attorneys, judges and litigants. Judicial court reporters may also provide real-time captioning in the courtroom to allow participants to immediately read on a monitor what is being said. However, most court reporters work outside the courtroom, hired by lawyers, businesses, unions and other organizations who need accurate records of meetings, depositions, arbitration hearings and so forth.

Broadcast Captioner
Broadcast captioners provide captions for live television programming so that deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers can easily read what is being said. Captioners may work on news programs, sporting events or other programming for local stations, national networks or cable channels.

CART Provider
Using a stenotype machine hooked up to a laptop computer, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) reporters provide in-person captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing people at live events, such as college classes or religious ceremonies. 

Webcaster
Webcasters create and transmit via the Internet captions for business meetings, press conferences, training seminars and other organizational gatherings.

Scopist
Scopists aid judicial court reporters by proofreading and editing transcripts created by court reporters. Scopists check for terms that don't register as words, correct them as needed and ensure that the transcript is in the proper format before it's sent to the final recipients.

Medical/Legal Transcriptionist
Medical and legal transcriptionists document speech dictated to them by health care and legal professionals, editing for grammar and clarity. Working for lawyers, they may transcribe client meetings, letters to trial participants or instructions for written contracts and wills. Working for doctors, they may transcribe patient diagnoses, procedures or other communications.

Data Entry
Trained court reporters may use their skills in data entry for businesses, since a trained stenotype operator can type at least twice as many words per minute as a skilled typist.