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Translator Qualifications |
The ability to deliver world-class linguistic services is the #1 reason why new customers come to SimulTrans and why existing customers stay with SimulTrans.
As a result, SimulTrans places paramount emphasis on receiving and delivering superb linguistic quality, and on building long-term partnerships with its vendors.
Resource Management Team
To determine which vendors consistently satisfy and exceed its expectations, SimulTrans employs a resource management team devoted full-time to recruiting, testing, and monitoring translation resources. This team is comprised of professional translators and business managers, who work at SimulTrans' regional offices (in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America).
Boutique Linguistic Partners
SimulTrans works primarily with boutique linguistic partners (typically small companies with five or more employees) in their respective target/native countries. SimulTrans strongly prefers translators who reside in the appropriate target country, since these linguists have better access to resource materials and can more naturally maintain absolute fluency in their native language, minimizing the scourge of linguistic contamination that eventually inflicts itself upon translators who speak, hear, and write their non-native language each day.
Each SimulTrans translator typically has the following strong qualifications:
- Native speaker of the target language who lives in the target country
- Full-time focus on professional translation
- Minimum of five years of professional translation experience
- Higher-education degree in translation
- Industry-specific knowledge and experience
- Relevant hardware and software expertise, including familiarity with translation memory tools
- Commitment to confidentiality requirements
- Passion for excellence in translation and its impact on end-users in target markets
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