Tag: freelancing
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Are You an Employer Who Values Transferable Skills, Linguistic Expertise, and Freelance Experience? It’s Time to Recognize What Translators Can Bring
When employers recruit, they often search for candidates with specific job titles and industry backgrounds. Yet some of the most capable professionals may not fit neatly into those categories. A candidate’s competence should not be defined by their job title but by their transferable skills and expertise. Many translators and interpreters have spent years developing…
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A Patchwork of Insecure Jobs or Diversification? What the Positive Language of Portfolio Careers Might Be Obscuring
Many translators and interpreters today do not have a single career. They have a patchwork. A few hours of translation here. Some teaching there. A training session next week. A short editing project next month. A handful of regular clients and intermediaries, a stream of one-off assignments, and a constant search for the next opportunity.…
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Financial insecurity in UK public service interpreting: Excerpts from my PhD study
In the United Kingdom (UK), public service interpreting (PSI) is a state function mandated by legal frameworks and funded by taxpayers. However, its delivery is predominantly outsourced to private language service providers (LSPs), where interpreters’ labour is subject to market competition and cost-cutting logics. This study examines the inequalities experienced by interpreters in PSI through…
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