At times you might have felt the need for a beginner’s guide that lights your path to become a translator. Every translator who aspires to achieve certain height in his career graph goes through such situations. Many a times, you might have been very annoying and stressed while thinking about your future growth.
But it is certain that if you are versed with two or more languages and perfect at the translation skills, then you need not to worry about the future scope. Thus the following guide might act as a teacher for the beginner translators.
If you are the one, then you must scroll down to flip from your weaknesses into strengths and evolve as a reputed translator.
Why Opt For A Career In Translation?
Translation is the most viable way to connect with the world and get instant recognition. Right from the presidents of a country to big brands, all of them require the assistance of translators. Every brand, industry or country in this world, today is in a constant need to communicate across the cultural boundaries, in order to spread business roots and maintain cordial relations.
Hence, translation industry is surely a lucrative sector for establishing a twinkling future ahead. Whether you decide on to work as a freelance translator or desire to be included in the in-house team of a company’s translator’s team, you will need to explore different things and move in the right direction.
Are You Moving In The Right Direction?
The first and foremost milestone that you need to achieve is to identify, whether you are in the right direction or not. To make sure that you achieve newer heights in the translation industry, make sure that you apply the correct approach.
For this, you need to analyze few notable things, such as:
● Explore your first and second languages to the highest possible extent. Along with it, you also need to assure that the cultural specifications are crystal clear in your mind.
● Explore your industrial expertise. A translator who holds industry-specific translation skills is given more weightage and priority as compared to others. Further, if you possess practical knowledge of working in any specific industry, then this certainly will be an add-on for you.
Important Questions
While you assure that you are moving ahead with a correct approach, you must ask certain questions and analyze your inner-self to make your future goals easily achievable and that too in a systematic manner.
The questions are:
■ Where to find the translation work?
■ How the translation business actually runs?
■ What is the pre-requisite in order to start?
■ How to promote yourself
Potential Answers
Before actually staring with the translation career, you must take into consideration few things that might answer all your queries or questions as mentioned above.
Some of the major considerable points are:
1. Competition
Since the competition level is too high and fierce in the translation market, thus, you need to make sure that you stand out from the rest of the crowd. Thus, branding hails from here. You need to do your branding, as if you do not do so, the competition is just going to be even tougher. More competition means the business is high in demand.
2. Skills
Garner an inventory of skills within you, so that you boast of all the relevant and required skills while initiating your career. A large amount of skills will assure a large amount of success for you. Research the translation market, read out some survey reports that informs about the skills. Further, do not forget to polish your translation skills, as they are most important.
3. Earning
You must decide on, what should be the prospective earning to sustain your lifestyle. You must possess a minimum of expertise that delivers the right amount of salary to run your life smoothly. Further, as the time passes by, inculcate more expertise and command over translations, in order to get yourself a notable amount of earnings.
What’s more on This Guide?
The way to become a successful freelance/in-house translator goes through many stages. With a view to describe the every minute detail for the individual seeking to establish his career in translation industry, we present the following sub-three guides that entails 3 major types of translators.
The following guides will help one to move from one level in his career to another. The sub-guides are as follows:
1. The Novice Guide
In the novice section you will find each and every small details about the translation industry, the current trends, information about credentials and educational requirements, answers to frequently asked questions, answers to questions like: which language should I learn, where do I start, , what is the ideal career path and so on.
2. The Intermediate Guide
In the Intermediate section, you will be acquainted about how to start your translation career, be it for freelancing or for an in-house team of translators. It will also including several tips on how to approach towards the career or set up your translation business and acquire clients.
3. The Zenith Guide
In the Zenith section, the spotlight would be on those individuals who are already working as a translator and looking for ways to earn more. Hence, this guide will basically take their translation career to the next level.
Hence, this guide is perfectly termed as the “beginners guide”. No matter you are planning to become a translator or already working as a translator, this guide along with the sub-guides will enlighten your path and help you move towards a better future arena and earn notably.
