Since most of the guest posts are written by translators, I thought it would be refreshing for us to get the perspective of an employee in a company who manages translation projects. Recently I conducted an interview with a project coordinator at a translation company based in Los Angeles. My goal was to learn the challenges that a project coordinator typically faces in the translation industry. Here is what she had to say.

When it comes to document translation services rushed jobs often cause stress for us. If we are in the middle of managing another project, we have to stop everything we were doing to take care of the rushed job. When we come back to the project we were originally working on, it is often difficult to remember where we left off. In addition, for large projects once the translation is done, there is a lot of pressure on the project coordinators who have to print and stamp every page on a rushed basis. More.

See: Adventures in Freelance Translation

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