Years of experience : automatic incrementation? Thread poster: Sylvain Leray
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Hi,
I was browsing my profile to see if everything was OK, and stumbled on the little text saying "Years of experience:3", which I completely forgot to update.
Could there be a way of incrementing this number automatically once a year (by entering a date or so)?
Not of utmost importance, but well.
Thanks,
Sylvain
| | | | | Do it manually, I would say | Apr 3, 2006 |
Better still, do not talk about the years of experience. Just say active as translator since 1999 (for example). This would never need updating! See my profile and you will know what I mean.
"I am a freelance German/French translator cum interpreter active from 1975/1978 respectively in the above languages. Being a graduate electrical engineer having worked for 23 years in that capacity, I specialize in translating all types of technical literatures as well as interpreting for the v... See more Better still, do not talk about the years of experience. Just say active as translator since 1999 (for example). This would never need updating! See my profile and you will know what I mean.
"I am a freelance German/French translator cum interpreter active from 1975/1978 respectively in the above languages. Being a graduate electrical engineer having worked for 23 years in that capacity, I specialize in translating all types of technical literatures as well as interpreting for the visiting technical experts speaking only German or French."
Regards,
N.Raghavan
[Edited at 2006-04-03 15:53] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Endre Both 
Germany
Local time: 00:14
English to German
Great observation, Sylvain, I think this should be a matter of course.
Endre
| | | | Jeff Allen
France
Local time: 00:14
Multiplelanguages
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| automatic incrementation is done at LinkedIN | Apr 3, 2006 |
FYI, the profile page at LinkedIn.com does automatic incrementation based on dates provided for past and current positions. This could help in seeing how to implement it on this site.
Jeff
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Oliver Walter
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:14
German to English
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| Prefer absolute information, not relative | Apr 21, 2006 |
Sylvain Leray wrote:
Could there be a way of incrementing this number automatically once a year (by entering a date or so)?
Not of utmost importance, but well.
Sylvain
This reminds me of a general principle which I think pages such as ProZ profiles should try to adhere to (both the "boiler plate" text from ProZ and the text written by the members): the information posted there should be "absolute", i.e. true in a way that does not depend on *when* it is read.
"Translator since 2002" is absolute in this way, but "4 years' experience" is not. That could perhaps be difficult for a few of us in this case, as a part-time or occasional translator should (I think) claim less than N years' experience in a period of N years.
Maybe a solution is that ProZ should send a reminder email once per year to every member with a profile page.
Oliver
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