Translation Agency Tips: #21 Professional Indemnity (PII) Insurance – should you have it?
Should you have Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) as a translator? Straight answer – yes! But seriously, to expand further though, you are offering a professional service to businesses. Professional...
Translation Agency Tips: #20 Going to be away? Don’t forget to tell your clients, and send us a postcard!
Is it time for you to have a break? Your desk is covered with papers and you’ve been working solidly for months so isn’t it time you booked yourself...
Translation Agency Tips: #19 What professional organisations should I join?
We are frequently asked which professional organisations or bodies translators should join. There is no one answer to this question! In fact there are many answers, and it depends...
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: #10 Translating in Excel
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
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
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: #6 You’ve been approved by an agency – so where is the work?
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...