GETTING STARTED

How to take the initial steps into interpreting and translation.

Freelance Bullfighters Wanted. Inquire Within by Charlie Beckstrom (TransRef Correspondent)

A practical introduction to the intricacies of the legal and tax-related aspects when starting your career as a translator (focused on the situation in Spain).
This reference has been contributed by our Correspondent Charlie Beckstrom.

Marketing Your Translation Services: Test Translations—To Do or Not to Do? by Andrei Gerasimov

Andrei Gerasimov gives some very useful advice on how and when to do translation test sent by translation agencies. He also offers some tips on how to get started in the profession.

For interpreters - Getting into interpreting

This article is a useful introduction to interpreting as a profession. Published by the ITI.

For interpreters - Advice to Students Wishing to become Conference Interpreters

Tips for junior interpreters, by the AIIC.

Getting into translation?

Introduction to translation as a profession published by the ITI.

A web presence for independent translators

Useful article on how to expand a translator's market, by Per N. Dohler.

Presenting yourself to work providers and to translation companies in particular

Some hints on how to get into the market. By the ITI.

How to make money working freelance for translation companies

On professional behavior, published by the ITI.

The essential translator’s office

Help on how to organize your work environment. Published by the ITI.

A Successful Home Office (Part I)

R. Chriss has published some articles intended to help free-lance translators. This article, and the following ones, are extracted from that collection.

A Successful Home Office (Part II)

Translators & Agencies (Part I)

Translators & Agencies (Part II)

Translation and Money

Beware of the dictionary! by V. Dewsbery (1 of 3)

The first of a series of three short and interesting articles on dictionaries, computers and translators.

Beware of the computer! by V. Dewsbery (2 of 3)

The second one, on computers.

Beware of the translator! by V. Dewsbery (3 of 3)

An the third one, on translators.

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