What makes a great translator’s CV?

From a recruitment standpoint, one of the biggest challenges facing LSPs is with sales, such as breaking into new markets and finding the talent that has the ability to do that. According to Jim Watson, former Senior VP of Global Sales and Marketing at MultiLing, LSPs should focus on the “solution-sell”, rather than simply relying…

Translation quality assurance is not easy to summarise.  In fact, just explaining translation quality itself can feel a lot like opening Russian dolls. However, once the latter concept is understood, it follows that the former will make more sense. In the first half of this article, we will look at this. In the second half, we will look…

In his short story ‘The Great Automatic Grammatizator‘ (1953), Roald Dahl imagined a computer that can write stories better than humans can. The computer ends up writing “over half of all the novels and stories published in the English language.” The remaining human writers struggle to make a living… It’s estimated that the machine translation market…

Not all industries are equally profitable. And not all areas of all industries are equally profitable either. The translation industry is no exception.  Uniquely, the translation industry touches on almost every other industry. It also covers hundreds of language combinations, several different services, and a couple of different business models. So, the short answer to…