Consecutive Interpretation jobs (onsite) מפרסם התגובה: Sabina Alasgarova
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Dear colleagues,
I need your advice: How do you find onsite interpretation jobs?
I am aware of remote interpretation, but I view it as a last resort.
Since joining Proz.com in 2014, I've mainly been offered translation work, and I've struggled to find consecutive interpretation opportunities in Azerbaijan (especially since Covid). How is the situation in your countries? Which steps would you recommend taking in order to find and connect with potential clients? A... See more Dear colleagues,
I need your advice: How do you find onsite interpretation jobs?
I am aware of remote interpretation, but I view it as a last resort.
Since joining Proz.com in 2014, I've mainly been offered translation work, and I've struggled to find consecutive interpretation opportunities in Azerbaijan (especially since Covid). How is the situation in your countries? Which steps would you recommend taking in order to find and connect with potential clients? Any advice regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you! ▲ Collapse
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Dear Sabina,
Your situation is not rare. But I also have trouble finding remote interpretation jobs, do you have good recommendations?
| | | | Sabina Alasgarova 
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Local time: 00:15
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TOPIC STARTER | You could join Proz interpreters | Aug 16 |
madleen wrote:
Dear Sabina,
Your situation is not rare. But I also have trouble finding remote interpretation jobs, do you have good recommendations?
Dear Madleen,
Thanks for replying.
You could try joining Proz Interpreters Pool https://www.proz.com/pools/interpreters and working with Proz for remote interpretation: https://go.proz.com/join-pool-now. There are also many companies hiring remote interpreters via LinkedIn, so you could search for jobs there.
I am only interested in onsite interpretation, which is challenging to find nowadays.
| | | | Lingua 5B
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It’s challenging because, during Covid, they realized they could save money on venues, organization, hotels and transportation - by keeping everything online. Which is exactely what they are doing. Especially since “online interpreters” don’t charge minimum fees, or food, transport or cancellation fees.
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| "Especially since “online interpreters” don’t charge minimum fees . . . or cancellation fees | Aug 17 |
I don't know how things go in Europe, but in the US we have a minimum charge and a cancellation fee as well for "online interpreters"
| | | | | Are you comfortable doing court interpreting? | Aug 17 |
madleen wrote:
Dear Sabina,
Your situation is not rare. But I also have trouble finding remote interpretation jobs, do you have good recommendations?
I have been a court interpreter for over 30 years, retired, and in the last two years my workload has increased tremendously. For example, I was on a three months vacation in Europe and had remote court hearings (ZOOM) 2-3/week. I think there is plenty of work. Get in touch with the Court Administrator of your state (honestly, I do not get all this secrecy regarding name and location) and see if they need interpreters in your language pairs.
Good luck!
Lee
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Sabina Alasgarova wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I need your advice: How do you find onsite interpretation jobs?
I am aware of remote interpretation, but I view it as a last resort.
Since joining Proz.com in 2014, I've mainly been offered translation work, and I've struggled to find consecutive interpretation opportunities in Azerbaijan (especially since Covid). How is the situation in your countries? Which steps would you recommend taking in order to find and connect with potential clients? Any advice regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Dear Sabina,
I assume that in Baku you can find on-site jobs if you contact courts, hospitals, airport, travel agencies.
I read your CV, and you are qualified to do some of these jobs. By the way, a 13 pages CV is a little too long. Get rid of the references. If somebody contacts you, then you can give them references.
I have been interpreting for many, many years and nothing changed in the post-Covid era (at least in the US in my narrow field of expertise). I do not know the market in Baku, I do not know the competition, but I would suggest to try a niche you like and go for it. Specialization is the key.
Good luck!
| | | | madleen
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| Lee and court interpreting | Aug 18 |
Hello Lee,
Don’t they require a certificate or that the interpreter should have completed a specific number of training hours?
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Yes. You need an "Orientation course"(each state is different), pass a written and oral exam and they place yor name on the roster for court interpreters.
| | | | Lingua 5B
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Local time: 21:15
חבר (2009)
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Pre-Covid I would travel to at least 4-5 conferences per year, post-Covid I traveled to none and have been offered online work only (which I gladly turned down). I don’t anticipate/expect or even need any interpretation work any time soon.
Here some people gave you views based on their own personal experiences. My views were based on thousands interpreters I worked with as an interpreting manager.
| | | | | Of course I expressed my views based on personal experience | Aug 21 |
Lingua 5B wrote:
Pre-Covid I would travel to at least 4-5 conferences per year, post-Covid I traveled to none and have been offered online work only (which I gladly turned down). I don’t anticipate/expect or even need any interpretation work any time soon.
Here some people gave you views based on their own personal experiences. My views were based on thousands interpreters I worked with as an interpreting manager.
One must keep in mind the language pair and the competition in a particular country or area.
Turning down online work is your choice. I can tell that online interpreting is very lucrative, being able to interpret from wherever you are.
De gustibus non est disputandum . . .
| | | | IrinaN
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Sabina,
1. Your best bet would be to find your way to Azeri oil and gas projects. This is still the top industry in Azerbaijan, and every project requires English. Easier said than done, of course. It takes a lot of training and practice, a couple of truckloads of terminology and at least some understanding of it. Nevertheless, legislation, environment, finance, contracts are all a huge part of the same as it pertains to O&G and related infrastructure. That way you'll begin to pick ... See more Sabina,
1. Your best bet would be to find your way to Azeri oil and gas projects. This is still the top industry in Azerbaijan, and every project requires English. Easier said than done, of course. It takes a lot of training and practice, a couple of truckloads of terminology and at least some understanding of it. Nevertheless, legislation, environment, finance, contracts are all a huge part of the same as it pertains to O&G and related infrastructure. That way you'll begin to pick up terminology without dealing with the in-depth engineering and operational aspects from the start. I would presume there is a strong cohort of very experienced translators and interpreters who work in the field since the last century so it may not be easy to break in but it's worth a try.
2. I can't speak for someone else but it seems that our colleague Lingua 5B's vehement resentment means that she looks at online interpreting exclusively as a pay-per-minute thing for 50 cents a minute, which is not the case at all. Oh well, this one can give up to 2 grand a month in the US, depending on the demand in a language pair ($0.50 x 250 min/day in the peak time x 15 days = $1875 for a supplemental income), but I won't go back to our previous discussions on this subject now. Looks like your attitude is the same ("last resort."). Why?????
In the US, my colleagues work simo and consecutive conferences remotely for the same high rates as if they were on site, myself including. Locally it's a blessing because a client in Houston can be located 30-50 miles away and battling a thick traffic both ways is no fun. Actually, before that I would accept only a full day pay plus commute time and gas, but now I don't see why I shouldn't accept even a 2-hour simo gig for $200 in my pajamas. You'll need a good noise cancelling equipment and a room that would ensure peace and quiet. There is absolutely no need to invest in super expensive computers, just about any laptop will do. I have new ASUS for under $500 but I do not run any CATs or play any games. Zoom, Teams, WebEx - no problem. And I always have two laptops, which helped just 6 days ago when the camera on one of them started acting up. I fixed it later but instead of panicking I just turned the other one on before the conference since I always double-check everything at least 30 minutes before the start time. It took me 5 to switch. That one was bad enough even with the slides on the screen, and would have been a complete disaster without it - tables, numbers, Excel spreadsheets and changes to the English paragraphs that I was supposed to read in Russian in real time. Not everything could have been emailed to me in advance.
Good luck!
Irina ▲ Collapse
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IrinaN wrote:
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2. I can't speak for someone else but it seems that our colleague Lingua 5B's vehement resentment means that she looks at online interpreting exclusively as a pay-per-minute thing for 50 cents a minute, which is not the case at all. Oh well, this one can give up to 2 grand a month in the US, depending on the demand in a language pair ($0.50 x 250 min/day in the peak time x 15 days = $1875 for a supplemental income), but I won't go back to our previous discussions on this subject now. Looks like your attitude is the same ("last resort."). Why?????
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Good luck!
Irina
A few days ago I received an invitation from an agency in Poland to provide OPIs for them; they offered top $$$ 23cents/minute. I replied and explaind that the US market is different than the European market, especially the Eastern European market where this rate could be appealing. My lowest rate for a banal OPI is 80 cents/minute. As a side-note to the cancellation fee - last week I got four continued(cancelled) court cases and I earned 600 USD (not bad for doing nothing).
| | | | | Dear Sabina, please heed this advice | Sep 2 |
"These same principles, it turns out, apply to writing a CV. A résumé is not a list of every job you ever had. It is not your autobiography. It is, like that hair-care advert, a marketing tool. Your audience is made up of recruiters and hiring managers. Like cocktail-party guests, they do not take a long time to decide if they want to keep talking. According to one study, such professionals spend an average of 7.4 seconds skimming a job application.
The CV’s number-one task is n... See more "These same principles, it turns out, apply to writing a CV. A résumé is not a list of every job you ever had. It is not your autobiography. It is, like that hair-care advert, a marketing tool. Your audience is made up of recruiters and hiring managers. Like cocktail-party guests, they do not take a long time to decide if they want to keep talking. According to one study, such professionals spend an average of 7.4 seconds skimming a job application.
The CV’s number-one task is not to put the reader off. " ▲ Collapse
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