Compelling reasons why CART captioning is so rewarding!
(prepared in collaboration with several CARTers who subcontract with Accurate Realtime Reporting Inc.)
- Our two fabulous administrative assistants are very experienced, friendly, and responsive. They’re just an e-mail, phone call, or text message away.
- ARI also has excellent IT and accounting support.
- Don’t spend time preparing your invoices, we prepare them for your approval.
- Our clients always pay.
- ARI has many long-time loyal repeat clients.
- ARI is regularly booked for high-profile conferences.
- Our work helps equalize access for our HoH clients. That is very rewarding!
- The energy you will gain from working with people in a learning environment is infectious!
- Our work is generally in a friendly we’re-here-to-learn environment. It’s tremendously intellectually stimulating. Not only are we attending university, but we’re being paid for it!
- We do our best to match CARTers with their skill level and preferences.
- We support and encourage open communication and participation amongst and between our CARTers.
- We operate as a team; we exchange first-day-of-class reports.
- We provide access to the lecture slides.
- ARI’s website has a private login where CARTers retrieve information.
- The weekly schedules are transparent: everyone sees all assignments.
- For corporate assignments, we provide preparation materials.
- You are paid for your time in preparing for assignments.
- You are paid for standby time between classes, a great opportunity to quickly clean up notes or just relax.
- ARI provides you with the student’s iPad, router and FM for small-group discussions.
- You are paid for setting up your equipment.
- Generally, cancellations occur within 24 hours, so you are paid anyway.
- If you attend a class and subsequently the student drops the course, you are paid for a further two weeks.
- To blend in with clients, particularly in educational settings, you enjoy the comfort and economy of dressing casually.
- At most locations, you have access to convenient, complimentary staff parking.
- On most assignments your travel expenses are reimbursed.
- Fit exercise into your workday by biking to work! We have experience to help you gear up.
- Semester schedules are fixed, enabling you to plan your personal time.
- Your remuneration can be calculated reliably because your schedule is fixed.
- You can plan your vacations with confidence since the 13-week semester schedules are predictable and generally known in advance.
- Because the subjects are so varied, our shorthand dictionary is very comprehensive.
- CART is an excellent segue to captioning – or vice versa.
- The demand for CART is ever-present, so job security is assured.
- You have the opportunity to seek CART-specific certification with NCRA’s CCR designation.
- No certified transcripts required, only draft! With CART, you can spend most of your work time doing what you enjoy: writing and learning, not processing transcripts.
- Because our transcripts are uncertified, editing time is minimal, and since delivery is within 48 hours of the lecture, you are then free to relax or take on other work.
- Being free of transcript backlogs means no need for long-term storage or a transcript retrieval partner.
- As a CART captioner, you will have little need for support staff, couriers, postage, printers, and other costly office equipment and services.
- There are no backorders.
- Transcripts, files, and preparation materials are all conveniently electronic.
- Assignments take place at any time of the day, evenings, or weekends, giving you more scheduling flexibility to fit your unique lifestyle preferences.
- With Accurate’s remote CART service, you also enjoy the alternative option of working from home – or anywhere with internet access.
- CART sells itself. All students who use our CART service, invariably improve their grade point average.
Forty-two compelling reasons why CART is such a rewarding profession! I am sure there are more. Can you think of some we’ve missed?
Catherine Siegler, RCR, RPR, CRR,
(Principal)
Accurate Realtime Inc.