When looking for secretarial, data entry or word processing jobs in the newspaper, one may think that typing skills are no longer important, since these jobs are in very short supply...

Before the 1930s and 1940s, physicians either wrote all their medical documentations directly in the chart or dictated in person to secretaries...

A transcriber is a person that transcribes recorded information to written form Companies use transcription to shift the burden of typing from highly paid executives and professionals to lower salaried employees...