Quality for linguists can be divided into administrative quality, linguistic quality, business quality and cultural quality. This session provides tips for all four areas, before, during and after a translation project, plus tips on tools to facilitate quality assurance.
Language:
English
Summary:
How to increase perceived and real quality of your work as a freelance translator. After this webinar you will know how the clients perceive quality, different aspects of quality, how to increase your translation and business quality and learn about some tools for quality assurance.
Duration: 60 minutes. Check what time the course is running in your local time here Links to handouts and video recording will be emailed to all registered and paid users within 5 working days after the training.
Description
How to increase perceived and real quality of your work as a freelance translator
This session will discuss how you can achieve quality in all four areas, and ensure quality before, during and after a translation project. Tools to facilitate quality assurance will also be introduced.
Target audience
New and experienced translators who wish to improve quality in their business.
Learning objectives
Goals for this webinar:
- Know what quality is for your customer
- The different aspects of quality that a translator must consider
- How to increase your translation and business quality
- Learn about some tools for quality assurance in translation
Prerequisites
Translation experience for real clients (agencies or companies)
Familiarity in using CAT-tools, Internet and Computer software
Program
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- What is quality assurance for translators
- How clients perceive quality
- Administrative quality (routines for handling translation projects)
- Linguistic quality (expertise, reference material, tools, proofreading)
- Business quality (understanding fulfilling customer’s needs
- Cultural quality (familiarity with source and target culture)
- Tools for quality assurance (software)
- Maintaining quality in the long term (continuing education)
Bio: Tess Whitty has eight years of experience as a freelance translator from English into Swedish with
her company Swedish Translation Services. She specializes in software localization, marketing and
business communications. She has a M.A. in Business Communications and PR from Belgium and a
M.Sc. in Economics from Finland.
Before working as a translator she worked for a Telecommunications company in Sweden as a
Product Marketing Manager. She is the language chair for the upcoming ATA English-Swedish
certification program and is a member of American Translators Association, several local translation
chapters and The Swedish Association of Professional Translators. She has previously served as
the president for the Swedish School in Salt Lake City for five years. This school was funded by the
Swedish government and provided complementary Swedish education to children with Swedish
parents. During this time she also taught Swedish to teenagers and adults.
She runs a very successful freelance translation business, and works with both agencies and direct
clients. Her background in marketing has given her valuable knowledge and experience in marketing
her own business, and she is now ready to share this knowledge with other freelancers.
Quality Assurance for Translators - increase business and translation quality
Damian Harrison Germany Local time: 10:08 Partial member (2007) German to English
On demand?
Mar 21, 2011
This webinar looks great and I would love to attend. Unfortunately I am in a GMT+12 timezone, and would have to crawl out of bed at 3:30am to do so. That's not going to happen, and it probably wouldn't be especially fruitful in any case. Will the content be available on demand following the initial 'broadcast'?
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Terese Whitty United States Local time: 02:08 Member (2004) English to Swedish + ...
On demand?
Mar 22, 2011
I completely understand. You can sign up for the on-demand course later, or sign up and get a link to the recorded webinar.
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Rita Soler Spain Local time: 10:08 Member (Mar 2012) English to Spanish + ...
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Nov 24, 2011
Hi Tess --are you planning on having another session?
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"It was good, but it's difficult to talk about quality in a credible way, when there are 2 typing mis..." Read moretakes in your Powerpoint presentation. In general, I had the feeling the presenter took too little time to prepare herself for the presentation. This training format lends itself to 100% preparation and perfection. This topic makes a 100% presentation even more important.
But, I'm glad I participated in the hour.
Thanks a lot. Yes, the technical side (Webinar) worked very well.
The translation workplace 
Terese Whitty
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