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Translation Services Directories Serve Professional Translators

Translation service directories offer professional linguists interesting opportunities.

Author: Armando Riquier

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Registration to translation service directories is simple and free of charge: you just have to log in and then these websites will display many reference contacts with several translation companies, job bids and free advertisement. Besides they offer discussion forums concerning many subjects: technical, business, financial and legal translation, localization, translation and interpreting in France, England, Italy and in many other countries all over the world.

Professionals linguists, translators and interpreters always use the Internet to look for new potential jobs or interesting opportunities to make new contacts. Luckily there are some particular websites called translation directories that offer language professionals many services such as the virtual company of helpful colleagues all over the world and the sharing of opinions, work experience and advice concerning translating and translation services.

Due to their job translators are often connected all day and night long and, during a coffee break, it is always good noosing around on the Internet to get in touch with the wide international linguist community and see the opportunities it offers such as the membership to a translation service directory. Registration is simple and free of charge: you just have to log in and then these websites will display many reference contacts with several translation companies, job bids and free advertisement. Besides they offer discussion forums concerning many subjects: technical, financial, legal and business translation and interpreting in France, Italy, Spain, England and in other countries all over the world, opinions about CAT tools (Computer Aided Translation), advices about work and translators rates. It is always good to have the point of view of other colleagues from different countries, to read articles regarding the world of translation services and also to have the help of qualified colleagues when you are in trouble translating a term or phrase. In these directories you can find experts in financial, bond equity, corporate research, marketing and business translation just to name a few.

Translation service directories are visited by companies like Apple, Ebay, Google, Lionbridge, Microsoft, SDL, Xerox that look for professional service and offer translators the possibility of a long term cooperation. Job bids are the most important aspect concerning these websites as most of these firms are serious and important names in worldwide financial, business and multimedia sector. Therefore this is an important contact channel between a company and a professional translator who can also apply directly to a firm by picking up details from the database of a translation directory. Besides a linguist can send his or her resume to many e-mail addresses waiting to be contacted for a trial that can concern multimedia translations for example or financial and legal proofreading, marketing research, voiceover and subtitling, etc. Finally translation service directories offer "black and white" lists of bad payers where translators can know in advance if their potential customer is reliable or not. Proz and Translatorscafe are very popular among language professionals, but there are many more directories like this on the net.

These directories make professional translators feel part of a community also because the same people in charge of these websites are translators or interpreters who offered their colleagues such helpful service and therefore are really noteworthy. Besides those websites can be visited from everywhere and at all time with computers, but also through cell phones or other WAP-enabled mobile devices and this makes their service even more useful and complete.

About Author

Armando Riquier as a freelance translator and writer has been working with Tectrad over the last decade. Tectrad is a translation agency that specializes in corporate and business translation services as well as website localizations at http://www.101businesstranslation.com/translation-services.htm

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