Translation Agency Tips: #47: Backing up your Work
What’s the reason for backing up data on your PC? Nowadays, many people work with a computer or a laptop to do their job. It is crucial that your...
Translation Agency Tips: #46: Splitting a Translation Project
Often large translation and urgent projects will need to be split between different translators to ensure a deadline is met. Here are few pointers on things to look out...
Translation Agency Tips: #44: Working with International Translations and Clients
Due to the intrinsic nature of the translation industry, it is almost inevitable that sooner or later, whether it be frequently or rarely, you’ll be working with someone based...
Translation Agency Tips: #43: Translating Subtitles
Subtitles play a central role in films around the world. Allowing speakers of different languages access to films they would otherwise not understand. Many (if not most) film goers...
Translation Agency Tips: #33 When things get too technical…
You’ve been offered a job from a client and of course the first thing you want to do before accepting the project, is to check the documents and make...
Translation Agency Tips: #27 Active Networking
Earlier in this blog series we’ve touched upon marketing yourself as a freelance linguist and maintaining a good relationship with agencies. In both of those blogs we mentioned networking...
Translation Agency Tips: #26 Formatting Translations
When working on a translation project, we may sometimes find it difficult to deal with the formatting of our documents, especially when dealing with complex layouts. It is however...
Translation Agency Tips: #16 Refresh and update your neglected CV!
I regularly meet talented and interesting translators and people who want to get into (more) freelance translation, and they ask for my advice. After running Atlas for 25 years,...
Translation Agency Tips: #7 You’ve been offered a translation job by the client. What should you do next?
You’ve been offered a new translation job. Great news! Let’s start working on it! The first thing to do is to make sure that you’re comfortable with the subject...
Translation Agency Tips: #1 How is your CV these days?
Thanks for checking out our blog series on tips for language professionals! While we appreciate that freelance linguists are of course experts in their respective disciplines, we’ve learnt a...