How To Become a Translator In 2 Years
Within this article we are going to help you put together a two year plan to become a translator. By usin
g a time-based plan such as this while you complete school, an exchange program, or other job you can speed up and increase the chances of your success. If you want to become a translator faster than this than you can simply speed up this timeline to meet your needs.First, write up a plan of exactly where you want to work within the translation agency. Is it within a large translation agency? A corporation? A translation service company? Or do you want to work from the start as a freelance translator finding your own clients and work as you go? This is very important and must be answered upfront to do the rest of your translator career planning the right way.
Once you have decided where you want to go you can draw up plans on how to get there. During this whole 2 year process to become a translator make sure you are constantly taking language classes, studying a language, mastering the culture behind the language, and discovering the true meaning behind the more difficult terms and words to translate.
Within your first 6 months of preparing to enter the industry complete a translation certification or certificate program, this can be on campus somewhere or it can be completed entirely online.
Within the next 6 months make sure that you have accessed and taken advantage of all of the mentoring, coaching, and multimedia training resources of that program and start developing a reading list of books that you will read over the next 18 months to further train yourself.
Within the 6 months following that identify two professionals within the industry that could mentor you on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. Come up with questions each time you meet with these mentors for 20-30 minutes and use their time wisely - never waste their time or show up late to your meetings with them.
After you have followed this process for two years start completing more and more paid and internship-based translation projects relevant to your end-goal that you set at the beginning of this process. All of this combined will help you become a professional translator.
That being said, most translators can gain an edge within the industry by completing a translator certification program such as the Certified Translation Professional (CTP)
Designation.
To learn more about this program now please visit http://TranslationTraining.org
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