translation agency manager
ISCO: 1349. Skills: 51. Essential: 31.
Essential skills
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- assess quality of services
- assume responsibility for the management of a business
- build business relationships
- comprehend the material to be translated
- consult information sources
- customer relationship management
- develop a translation strategy
- follow an ethical code of conduct for translation activities
- follow translation quality standards
- grammar
- lead a team
- liaise with colleagues
- maintain updated professional knowledge
- manage budgets
- master language rules
- negotiate service with providers
- negotiate settlements
- observe confidentiality
- office software
- preserve original text
- project management
- proofread text
- provide written content
- quality standards
- review translation works
- speak different languages
- spelling
- translate different types of texts
- use consulting techniques
- write work-related reports
Supporting skills
- adapt text culturally
- analyse text before translation
- coach employees
- conduct scholarly research
- court interpreting
- create subtitles
- decode handwritten texts
- develop technical glossaries
- identify new words
- improve translated texts
- linguistics
- musical genres
- perform sworn translations
- postediting
- semantics
- technical terminology
- transcreation
- translate language concepts
- unseen translation
- use computer-aided translation