Translation Agency Tips: #18 Marketing yourself as a freelancer and how to stand out.
Posted on20 April 2016
Whether you’ve recently been approved to work with an agency or have just won a new client, it’s always important to remember that as a freelancer, you are your...
Translation Agency Tips: #17 Top Tips for working from home
Posted on11 April 2016
Freelancers are often found working from home, whether it’s under the stairs, in a spare room, or in a corner of the house. When Atlas Translations started in 1991,...
Translation Agency Tips: #16 Refresh and update your neglected CV!
Posted on23 March 2016
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: #15 Translating PDFs
Posted on15 March 2016
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...
Translation Agency Tips: #14 You’ve been offered an interpreting assignment by a client? What should you do next?
Posted on4 March 2016
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...
Translation Agency Tips: #11 Do you offer other services your client should know about?
Posted on13 January 2016
You probably offer all sorts of other services. But do your clients know? Have you even clearly identified them yourself? Calling our business Atlas Translations, I am always keen to...
Translation Agency Tips: #10 Translating in Excel
Posted on8 January 2016
Thanks for checking out our blog series on tips for language professionals! Welcome to number 10, translating in Excel. While we appreciate that freelance linguists are of course experts...
Translation Agency Tips: #9 Researching & Dealing with Queries
Posted on22 December 2015
Whether you’re translating, proofreading or transcribing, projects will inevitably throw up a few queries as you seek to gain a firm understanding of a source text. Most clients will...
Translation Agency Tips: #8 Translating in Word
Posted on17 December 2015
Word is definitely the most popular format that our clients send us documents in, and which translators work and deliver their translations in. It is fairly simple to use...
Translation Agency Tips: #7 You’ve been offered a translation job by the client. What should you do next?
Posted on10 December 2015
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: #6 You’ve been approved by an agency – so where is the work?
Posted on4 December 2015
At Atlas, we deal with supplier applications on a daily basis and there are thousands of freelancers who have been approved to work with us. Unfortunately, it is impossible...
Translation Agency Tips: #3 What qualifications and experience will you need?
Posted on3 November 2015
We are often contacted by parents of A level students, language students, teachers wanting to change careers… all looking for advice on how to get started in translation, or...