Scopists are freelancers who work on court cases behind the scenes. They trancribe the legal testimony taken down by court reporters on steno machines, helping to polish up that testimony into transcripts used by lawyers and judges. The job of…
Want to know how to become a scopist? Keep reading and you'll find out! This is the ultimate guide for learning everything you need to know about how to start working for yourself in the lucrative career of freelance scopist.…
When you're a freelance scopist or transcriptionist, you need to be able to clearly hear the files you're listening to. You also need to be able to easily and quickly adjust the speed, or rewind if you need to listen…
If you're one of the few people in the world who knows what a scopist is, you'll probably be super surprised to hear that you can actually buy special scopist gifts for the handful of intrepid people who freelance in…
Earning money at home is an ideal situation for many people, especially retirees. When you retire, you may need - or just want - to earn some money to supplement your retirement income but you probably don’t want to relive…
(UPDATED OCTOBER 30, 2021) Want to learn how to make money from home as a scopist? The founder of Internet Scoping School, Linda Evenson, will tell you how in this interview. Linda freelanced as a scopist full time for 20…
Working online sometimes means studying online first in order to learn how to perform your future online job. BeST Scoping Techniques offers an online course in which you can study scoping. The owners of BeST, Cathy Knox and Judy Rakocinski,…
Almost no one has heard the word scopist. Spell checks don’t recognize it, autofills think you want to type science, scoop or socialist, and if you mention the word scopist to someone, they’ll probably say "what's a scopist?" You are…
A lot of court reporters turn over a lot of transcripts to scopists. This is a good thing. It gives the court reporters more time to earn more money making more transcripts of testimony at legal proceedings which they can…
Life as a freelancer is a bit of a mystery to most people who are not freelancers. Delving into the unexpected can be scary, and that fear can really put people off of thinking seriously about moving from traditional employment…