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Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | If only they will let you

Guofei_LIN — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Guofei_LIN
Post title: If only they will let you

[quote]Tom in London wrote:

q. What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
a. fixing existing translations that are not suitable for their intended purpose. £40/hour average

[Edited at 2025-08-14 11:14 GMT] [/quote]

That’ll be like me fixing existing problems of mismanagement by the incumbent US president. I have faith in my ability but £40/hour or not, who will let me?

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | The ability of finding potential clients that you can convince

Guofei_LIN — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:15:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Guofei_LIN
Post title: The ability of finding potential clients that you can convince

and convincing them that you are still relevant. Because without such belief, there is no clientele and thus you are just an irrelevant professional who still cling to the belief that you have all the irreplaceable skills.

[Edited at 2025-08-15 23:16 GMT]

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | Yes

Daryo — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Yes

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

High-level language skills [/quote]

That would be the way to stay in the translation business in a way that presents any interest.

As in many other professions, in translating 'good plain average' used to be good enough to plod along making a good enough living, but that's now gone - lost forever dans les oubliettes de l'histoire.

Nowadays 'good plain average' will do you no good - your real friend is 'high-level language skills', agree on that.

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | We will be fixers

Tom in London — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: We will be fixers

q. What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
a. fixing existing translations that are not suitable for their intended purpose. £40/hour average

[Edited at 2025-08-14 11:14 GMT]

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | main skill is missing

Zea_Mays — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: main skill is missing

High-level language skills

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | Retirement

WolfgangS — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:03:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: Retirement

Getting your pension asap.

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | AI+CAT literacy & multimodal/subtitling skills

Gennady Lapardin — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:28:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Gennady Lapardin
Post title: AI+CAT literacy & multimodal/subtitling skills

There is no doubt that a language professional should take the paths above.
A language shopkeeper, develop your adaptability, etc.

[Редактировалось 2025-08-14 04:29 GMT]

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | A very well thought-out Plan B ...

Jennifer Levey — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:27:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Jennifer Levey
Post title: A very well thought-out Plan B ...

... as far removed from language processing as possible (not only human languages - programming languages too).

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most? | Other

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:59:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Other

Clairvoyance is not one of my gifts and I don’t have a crystal ball…

Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?

ProZ.com Staff — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What skill sets or trends do you believe future language professionals need most?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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