First of all, as a stenographer, you should have a high sense of responsibility and serious attitude in your work.
Secondly, you should keep on studying in general, try to improve your language and foreign language skills, and enhance your writing ability so that you can better transform the spoken word into the written word.
Thirdly, "keep an army for a thousand days and use it for an hour" and "a fist never leaves the hand, a song never leaves the mouth". It is important to exercise speed regularly and strive for excellence.
Fourth, in conjunction with the needs of the business, usually to make some professional code and the establishment of a personal thesaurus, in order to use in the work, in order to improve the speed and accuracy of the record. The code and the personal thesaurus should be easy to memorize, easy to hit, and should not be re-coded with the existing words.
2. Preparation before the meeting
Prior to the meeting, the stenographer must make clear the specific requirements of the person in charge of the stenography; to carefully collect and read the documents related to the meeting, to learn and be familiar with the terminology, and to make a temporary code in advance; to double-check the stenography equipment whether it is in a normal state of operation, whether the battery is sufficient to use, whether the signal line, the power line interface is effective. If necessary, we should look at the steno site in advance, determine the steno position or install steno equipment in advance.
Secondly, the arrangement of the stenographic table. In accordance with the meeting, the person in charge and the specific requirements of the stenographic work to arrange the location of the stenographic seat. Seat to choose a bright light, can clearly hear the speaker's speech. Reports, press conferences, it is best to sit on the podium in front of the right, so that it is easy to see the spokesman's expression and gestures, and even in the voice is weak, you can see the content of the speech by looking at the mouth steno down, but also to grasp the dynamics of the entire venue. If it is a symposium, generally should sit on the side of the host or convener, because, the host of the meeting is more familiar with the people, stenographer can always ask the speaker's name and unit.
The tables and chairs of the stenographic table should be smooth and of a suitable height to ensure that the stenographer can work for a long time without being too strenuous.
Third, the format of the minutes. No matter what kind of meeting stenography, there is a standardized format according to the specification to do, there is no should be written before the meeting to the basic format of the meeting records: such as the name of the meeting, the meeting time, the meeting place, the host, the attendees, the stenographer's name and so on. If there is a meeting before the meeting can not be determined, temporarily leave this item empty, to be added after the meeting is complete.