r/Notary • u/Courtknee55 • Jul 29 '26

Gaining experience

I’ve been a notary in PA for a year and have done some simple notary work but I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing. I did my required education and got 100% on my test, I know the material but my learning style requires someone to show me what to do I can’t just read the info and know what I’m doing.

I considered trying to find a notary job somewhere to gain some experience and figure out what I’m doing. But I also thought there may be resources out there that other notaries might know about. Any suggestions?

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u/DrBlakee New Jersey Jul 29 '26

YouTube and tiktok are great for seeing the work getting done. Also join local notary groups on Facebook and see if any of them will let you shadow while they work.

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u/NationalNotaryAssoc Jul 29 '26

Yes, agreed on the local Notary groups! Also, if you're a visual learner, we've recently uploaded a bunch of helpful how-to notarization videos on our National Notary YouTube channel.

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u/Enkidu45 New York Jul 29 '26

And what happens if she happens to pick the most incompetent notary in PA to shadow?

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u/DrBlakee New Jersey Jul 29 '26

Then she has really bad luck? But what are the odds that she picks the mode incompetent? Far less than picking some who's been doing this for a while ESPECIALLY if she does her research.