Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
IDEAS FOR STENOCRAPHERS
Men and Wsmsn Of Ability Can Command
High Wages,
SPEED AND ACCURACY PRIME REQUISITES
Modern Business Colleges Keeping
Right Up with the Demand by
EmpIOyinE Competent
Teachers.

with the marvellous development OF mod
ern business methods the profession OF
stenography has taken rank with the
foremost OF business sciences. 1t has also
developed a class OF professional workers
of the highest order OF intelligence, COM
manding the highest salaries, and has had
much to do with the later perfection OF
business transactions.
The knowledge of shorthand has now
become an absolute essential in the pro-
fession OF stenography, and a girl or man
desiring a lucrative and dlgnihed position
makes no mistake in securing a knowledge
OF photography or phonetic writing. The
age is fast one. The most rapid worker
is the best paid one, providing the rapidity
OF work is accompanied with accuracy
While Il Is a trite and possibly true say
ing that THE woods are full of stenogra-
piers" there are many so-called stem
ographers that do not deserve the name,
and are incapable OF doing what business
men want done. The business man as
rule does not wish to do much teaching,
and very little waiting. What he desires
in his stenographer is accuracy, rapidity
and neatness, and these are the essential
principles that go to make up the
true stenographer. Deficient in any OF
these particulars, the stenographer is use-
less TO his or her employer Inefflclency
is not tolerated any more with women than
with men.
Accuracy Must GO with Ability.
Ability to write shorthand with facility
and accuracy can be acquired only after
the most painstalSlng effort Spelling, capi-
talization and punctuation are very inn
portant factors and count for much. The
stenographer should be able to execute
neat, plan, legibe style OF business writ
ing and correspondence. Business men are
making the standard of stenography and
typewriting higher and higher, and the
applicant for a position of this character
must be able to meet these demands II
he or she expects to hold a first class POSI-
tion, or any position for any length OF
time. The ability OF the stenographer Is
judged by the results attained
Good materials are essential for the stu
dent. The most expert cannot expect to
accomplish much with poor pen, a 2-cent
pencil or poor quality of paper. Good
tools are essential in the art of stem
ography as in any other art or vocation
Good Teachers "a Requisite.
One of the prime causes for a large num-
ber of inefficient stenographers is the
habit of business colleges employing teach
ers in the shorthand department who have
no experience as reporters or amanuenses.
Practlcablity Is important, and the teacher
who has no experience in actual work can
not impart that which he has not.
There is a greater demand for efficient
women stenographers today than ever be-
fore. Plenty of positions are open and
waiting for such stenographers who can
earn $40 per week and upward, and the
better the stenographer the more eagerly
are her services sought. Poor stenogra-
pliers are not wanted at any wage.
Remunerative positions are constantly
awaiting the proficient stenographer and
to attain them there is only required will
and determination to become efficient.