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| Marketing for language professionals | How do I ask someone to be a professional reference? | NDAs | Hi Ben,
If the project manager is someone you
have a particularly positive working relationship
or history with, then I can't see an issue with
asking them to act as a reference.
A k | William Bowley | May 5, 2023 | | Business issues | Being on a permanent standby list - do you respect yourself? | . | Agencies generally keep as many linguists on file
as possible, a) for their own image when marketing
to clients, to impress them with large numbers,
and b) for the recruitment/HR team to s | William Bowley | Apr 14, 2023 | | Money matters | I forgot to issue an invoice - Is there a time limit? (French company) | Persistence | I suggest politely contacting them again to
request that they reopen the job for invoicing or
whatever the equivalent is on their system. Ask
them to escalate to senior management if
n | William Bowley | Apr 12, 2023 | | Money matters | Non-payment of invoice and no reason given. | Risk tolerance | Well, from your posts you seem quite happy to take
this risk of non-payment, given that multiple
invoices are late and you're only now questioning
whether to keep working with them. That's | William Bowley | Jun 7, 2022 | | Money matters | Non-payment of invoice and no reason given. | Best practice | Your relationship with this agency isn't clear in
the OP. Have a) they been paying your past
invoices appropriately (in full, on time), or b)
is this your first ever work for them with no< | William Bowley | Jun 6, 2022 | | Post-editing & Machine Translation | post-editing of machine translations - Are there any real time savings? | Expectations | Hi Thomas,
Well there are a number of factors
in play here. For me it's largely a case of the
quality of the MT/TM and how realistic the
expectations of the agency are.
For relativel | William Bowley | May 18, 2022 | | Money matters | Payment Dispute | Naivety | There are a few issues here:
- Firstly, factual
errors and mistranslations are not acceptable in
any translation, even 'Light MTPE'. Issues with
style, quality of language and clarity o | William Bowley | Oct 4, 2021 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Using time stamps in transcriptions | Personal preference | A fairly simple way is to set up an excel sheet
with, for example, column A for start time, B for
the transcription/translation, and C for the end
time of the segment (or depending on the | William Bowley | Oct 1, 2021 | | Scams | Upwork Scam from China | Not new | I saw this years ago, I was sent the same first
few messages (though I never gave them a
reply).
What sort of respectable cyber criminal
is happy "paying" you 100-200 bucks and engage i | William Bowley | Jun 25, 2021 | | Business issues | Portfolio of work | . | As a translator, you are not a travelling
salesperson in the 1800s - you are not showing off
a 'portfolio' of your wares!
Providing your
work in this manner goes against any
confide | William Bowley | Jun 21, 2021 | | Linguistics | Improve your English by not reaching out | Almost | Close, but I think the current fashion of
overusing and misusing 'myself' as a subject is
more irritating.
That's just the opinion of
myself, though!
| William Bowley | Apr 23, 2021 | | Post-editing & Machine Translation | Payment per hour | @naysayers | The points brought up about assisting AI as a
negative of MTPE overlook the following flaws with
that stance:
- While you may be 'helping' the
AI through MTPE, every single job ("real"< | William Bowley | Apr 20, 2021 | | Post-editing & Machine Translation | Payment per hour | Many variables | If you're working with agencies, they'll often
have their own expectations of x words per hour,
upon which you can then base your quote.
There
are many variables to take into account wi | William Bowley | Apr 18, 2021 | | Money matters | Slightly overpaid or underpaid invoice (client paying from a foreign account) - what do I do? | @Dominika | 1) Whatever the case may be, it looks like you
haven't set clear payment terms between translator
and client. That should be your first point to
rectify with this company. Ask why the amou | William Bowley | Apr 7, 2021 | | Money matters | Slightly overpaid or underpaid invoice (client paying from a foreign account) - what do I do? | Fine print? | It looks like the client does not really pay in
GBP.
Has the client ever specified that they
only pay in a certain currency or currencies, or
that they withhold a percentage or amount f | William Bowley | Apr 7, 2021 | | Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Is proofreading a separate profession in its own right? | Not so fast! | From my experience, I think some impressions of
proofreading in here are quite off the
mark.
Proofreading is most certainly a
profession in its own right, though there are few
stell | William Bowley | Apr 3, 2021 | | Money matters | Do you ask agencies about their rates before filling out all their questionnaires? | Frustrating | The length and nature of the test should have
raised alarm bells.
I've spent too much time
over the years filling out paperwork only to never
see any work materialise from some companie | William Bowley | Mar 19, 2021 | | Being independent | How to lose jobs | Strange | One point in particular that's struck me from this
thread is contacting a company when you haven't
had any work from them for a while. I'm not
referring to outliers such as general checkin | William Bowley | Mar 11, 2021 | | Getting established | Working remotely from Spain (but as UK tax-resident) | Are you sure? | I've also been looking into this, but the
essential part of the non-lucrative visa (it's in
the name) is that you can't work using
it.
Saying that, there's very little quality
infor | William Bowley | Mar 7, 2021 | | Translation Theory and Practice | Italics for foreign names (universities, companies, schools, organisations...) | Consistency | As a rule, never translate company names. I can't
think of a reason to. By translating the company
name, you risk your translation no longer
referring to the actual company but to some oth | William Bowley | Mar 2, 2021 | | Getting established | How to get into translation work without references | Go for it | Matt makes two solid points, particularly the one
about the username - I don't see why anyone would
'hide' behind a username when you want to
advertise your services and this is a prominen | William Bowley | Feb 26, 2021 | | KudoZ | The elephant in the room/Behold the KudoZ shenanigans | I agree with your OP | A very good post, Korana, which highlights many of
the issues with the KudoZ system.
It's a shame,
because in theory it's a helpful system that works
for and benefits everyone, yet in p | William Bowley | Feb 8, 2021 | | Business issues | The Angriest Email I've Sent in a While, or Whether I Should Choose to Work for Free | Two cases of irony | There's quite some irony here:
Firstly, given
Lincoln's recent activity of bumping
near-20-year-old threads, that when there's a bump
on his own thread, it isn't by him.
Secondly, | William Bowley | Feb 4, 2021 | | Getting established | How to gain enough experience to work for EU bodies | each to their own | Well you have to ask yourself whether working for
such agencies is your main aim. Consider Chris'
point about applying directly.
As others
mention, this is typically a way for agencies | William Bowley | Feb 2, 2021 | | Getting established | Is it worth having a personal website? | A matter of personal preference | The saying, "every little helps", is very true
here, as it likely will help exposure.
However,
as others mention, aspects such as maintenance,
the requirement for quality SEO, and vario | William Bowley | Oct 9, 2020 | | Getting established | How to get started as a freelance translator | Starting out | Hi Sofia,
It's great to see a fellow
enthusiastic translator. I myself am,
relatively-speaking, quite new to the profession
as well so can hopefully give you a few
pointers.
Firs | William Bowley | Aug 1, 2018 | | Business issues | Productivity: Translate 10 thousand words per day is possible? (No Cat Tools involved) | possible but unfeasible | Anything like this is possible, but obviously not
feasible when working at any sort of remotely
respectable level of quality and
thoroughness.
The internet is full of clients
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