If you learn speed reading techniques then it will enable you to start reading considerably faster than you have done it previously. Most of us are able to double their initial reading speed after regular practice. Speed reading can be successfully applied to different job-related reading tasks so it increases your productivity on the job.

The effect of speed reading on the productivity depends on the proportion of the working time spent on reading and of course it is different in case of different jobs. On the general, office workers will spend more time on reading and they will benefit more from learning to read at fast speed in comparison to manual workers.

So which professions will benefit most from speed reading? Although this list is not conclusive on the average the representatives of those professions have more possibilities for applying speed reading techniques.

• Managers and executives. Information is vital for them for making right decisions and the time for obtaining that information can be very limited.
• Clerks. They have to read and write many documents, and their work is to large extending desk work.
• Secretaries. Similarly to the clerks they are subject to heavy paper work. They frequently have to read lots of material for searching information for their bosses.
• Accountants and auditors. It will take a lot of time to work through those long reports if you are a slow reader. In addition, the legislation is continuously changing and you have to keep up with it.
• Lawyers. Reading loads of materials is a must for orientating in the legislation. Knowledge is a power for lawyers and it will help winning court cases.
• Doctors. For becoming a doctor you have to study a lot and when you are a doctor you have to still study a lot for keeping up with the new developments in the medicine.
• Journalists. For writing a good article you have to be well-informed and often you have to read a lots of materials for that purpose
• Engineers. Lots of technical reading for engineers.
• IT specialists. They have to read different types of manuals, system descriptions etc.
• Researches and analytics. Research always means lots of reading.
• Teachers. Reading student's homework and keeping up with the recent developments in your profession can be very time consuming if you are a slow reader.
• Professors and other scientific workers. Reading scientific literature can take a lot of time; speed reading will help them a lot.

Besides, high school or college students can be added to this list as they have to do a great deal of reading for their studies. Speed reading will help them to save time, read more materials and achieve better results on the exams.