What direct clients want: From a Marketing Director鈥檚 perspective

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 17, 2014

By听Daniela Guanipa A lot has been said about the complexities of setting up shop as freelancers and whether to work with agencies or direct…

Century College Translating and Interpreting Certificate/AA: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 10, 2014

By Kristen Mages If you fall into the vast majority of the population, you may never have heard of Century College in White Bear…

Technology Considerations for Beginning Translators

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 3, 2014

By Tommy Tomolonis Translators are expected to fulfill many roles in today鈥檚 market. In addition to being linguistic experts, translators are also expected to…

Direct clients鈥 the freelancer鈥檚 dream

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 27, 2014

By Helen Eby We all want to work with direct clients鈥 or say we do. Why? I have heard many translators wish they could…

Business Smarts: Fluctuating Workloads

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 20, 2014

One of the most daunting questions for freelancers – and more so for freelancers-to-be! – is how to handle workload fluctuations.听In this great post…

An Invitation: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 13, 2014

As you may have noticed, the ATA Savvy Newcomer blog will be running a series in the coming months on the many options for…

The Hidden Part of the Job

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 6, 2014

By Giovanna Lester听 In my marketing workshops I discuss a subject I call 鈥淎natomy of a Project.鈥 The focus is on the immediate interaction…

Kent State University: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 29, 2014

The Program Kent State University鈥檚 Department of Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies听is home to an active and vibrant translation department boasting bachelor鈥檚,…

Nice Interpreter!

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 22, 2014

By Judy and Dagmar Jenner Reblogged from Translation Times with permission from the authors Today’s post is about the importance of being, well, nice.…

Bilingualism – Part III

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 15, 2014

In this third and final part of the听series about Bilingualism, Eta Trabing discusses what it really means to be a “professional”, some of the…

ATA Divisions: Providing Homes for all Translators

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 8, 2014

By Lucy Gunderson, CT Administrator of the Slavic Languages Division Getting involved in an organization like the 情侣自拍 can be an intimidating…

Bilingualism – Part II

By The Savvy Newcomer | April 1, 2014

Today we continue with Part II of this fascinating journey through bilingualism. In this issue, our guest author, Eta Trabing, provides some tips to…