Metaglossia: The Translation World

A job post is an advertisement. You're letting the world know about a fabulous opportunity at your organization. You want people to be lining up to apply, but the goal is to make them the right people.

POSITION INFORMATION
Position Title Adjunct Instructor - Interpreter Training Program
Classification Faculty - Adjunct
Position Type: Adjunct Faculty
Possible faculty rank (rank determined based on qualifications) Adjunct
If Faculty position: 10 month or 12 month? Not Applicable
Work Status Adjunct
Temporary Yes
Location eTroy
Campus: Global
College/ Division College of Education
Department Interpreter Training Program
Job Summary Adjunct faculty members are employed to provide specific courses on an as-needed basis. Contracts for adjunct faculty members are issued on a semester/term basis. Adjunct instructors hold the responsibility for the management of courses taught. Adjunct instructors are expected to be available for reasonable amount of time for each course taught to counsel students regarding course work.
Minimum Qualifications 1. Bachelors degree in interpreting or related field plus interpreting and/or ASL teaching certification
2. Experience teaching ASL and/or Interpreting in an education/community/agency setting
3. Experience in the use of educational technology and/or distance learning
4. Experience in implementing curriculum in the fulfillment of courses
5. Demonstrated evidence of successful collaboration with one of the following: school systems, community agencies, and other organizations
6. Demonstrated evidence of professional involvement in the field
Preferred Qualifications 1. An earned doctorate in interpreter education or related field
2. National interpreter certification and/or ASLTA certification OR Interpreting and/or ASL Teaching Certification
3. Demonstrated leadership and membership in national professional organizations such as RID, ASLTA, & NAD and CIT (Conference of Interpreter Trainers)
Work Hours: eTROY, Troy University's online programs, employs an on-line teaching format, which emphasizes significant student-faculty interaction.

Not all opportunities are alike and neither should your strategy for presenting your information to potential leads. One of most costly mistakes job seekers make is to become lax with their resumes. They stop planning ahead and marketing themselves with resume strategies.

When you are looking for a new job, a resume is one of the first tools you develop to showcase your skills, work experience, education and qualifications. It’s not enough to create one resume, you should tailor the format and style to each audience.

If you are new to the job market or have been searching for a while, you will be faced with a broad array of decisions: to stay in your same field, change industries or perhaps explore the possibility of consulting in your area of interest.

A resume is much like a marketing brochure for a product. It gives the reader information about the product, and the goal is to create interest in the product that leads to a sale.

Your resume presents “you as the product” to the employer, providing information and creating a reason to bring you in for an interview.

On the other hand, if you are considering a consulting assignment, a chronological resume may not be the best approach. A professional biography, which typically is used for introductions (for speaking engagements, for example), may be what you need. While a resume highlights your work history, a biography is unlimited and gives you a creative edge because you don’t have to present information in chronological order.

While there's no silver bullet when writing a resume, there are a few things a job seeker can do to try to make it as close to perfect as possible.

Karen Ham, director career planning at the State University of New York in Potsdam, N.Y., says even the most experienced job seekers' resumes could use a little brushing up. Here are her tips to creating the perfect resume:

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Write for the reader. Since people read down the page and across the page, the resume should be written down the page and then across the page from most important to least important to the reader. Items that you expand on should demonstrate how your experience will transfer to the position for which you are applying. Do not sandwich important information in the middle of your resume.

Include accomplishments. Instead of writing about duties and responsibilities, write about what you learned and accomplished that will benefit the employer.

Fix your format. Set up the resume so that the eye does not have to travel in and out on the page. Do not keep indenting. Use bulleted style instead of paragraphs. Make sure you have white spaces. Make information that is important to the reader stand out visually.

Mix nouns and verb phrases. Write using action verb past tense phrases. The resume should be action-verb oriented. It should not be in complete sentences. Everything on the resume should have already happened. Do not include future plans.

Be consistent. Keep the location of job titles, employer name, city, state and dates in the same order for each experience. Keep dates in the same format. For example, if you use 2010 do not use '09. Be consistent in use of indentation, underscoring, capitalizing and spacing.

Nix the errors. Errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation do not gain you any favors in the eyes of the hiring manager. In fact, grammatical errors may even land you in the "no" pile. To combat this, have others proofread your resume.

Keywords. Research employers and positions. Know what keywords are important for the type of position you are seeking and include them in your resume.

When going to the BOC or TOC, it is important to have a strong résumé to make you stand out from all the other candidates — in a good way, of course. Here are some short, informal guidelines for those who have never written a résumé before.

Header

In the heading, the name comes first, and you want that to be the most prominent part. Make it noticeable, under 40 point font, and either left-align or center-align it. A bold name in a formal serif (Garamond, Jenson, Trajan) will suffice. The address at which the writer receives most of his or her mail, as well as a phone number and email address, should also be in the heading. If you have a personal website, list it there as well.

Education

The education section is where you should put intended majors or minors (if relevant), expected graduation date, and the name and location of your school. Once in college, you should try to avoid placing your high school on your résumé. You can include your college GPA if it is high — especially if you are a Dean’s List honoree. If your GPA is poor, leave it off — if recruiters really want to know, they will ask.

Experience

Here is the trickiest — and most important — part of your résumé. When listing your experiences, you should choose the ones that connect your skills to the qualifications that the job asks for. However, don’t copy full-length sentences from the job advertisement.

What you should do is try to articulate your skills in a way that sounds similar to the skills the employer is looking for in a candidate. Eliminate use of the first-person (“I did ...”) if possible, and don’t forget to use active verbs when listing the tasks your job entailed. For example, “Flipped burgers” (don’t put that on your résumé) is the correct verb form to use. You should also try to use bulleted lists to make it easier to scan the information. And stay concise — no one wants to read eight paragraphs about your retail experience.

Activities

In some cases, your activities might even be more relevant than your actual work experience, and should thus be as boldly and centrally placed. You should try your best to list your most relevant activities. For example, if you are applying for a web design internship, list related activities: copy-writing, search engine optimization, or visual design experience, to give a few examples.

As for other extra-curricular activities, you should highlight activities you’re involved in — a club for which you only attended a single meeting doesn’t count. As always, either cut out irrelevant information or find a way to tie it into the way you sell yourself.

Skills

It seems that everywhere I look, job seekers want to know the top skills employers value. One that almost always comes up in my research? Public speaking skills.
Public speaking skills can be difficult for many people to master–there’s just something about having all eyes on you that triggers those sweaty palms–but often a class (or practice in general) can help to quell those fears.
Employers value job seekers who are comfortable in front of lots of people for a variety of reasons–maybe it means they’re charismatic and self-assured, or perhaps their line of work requires giving presentations to important upper-level managers. Whatever the case, public speaking is a skill job seekers can market in nearly any industry, and being confident in your public speaking abilities can often set you apart from the pool of other job seekers.
So maybe you’ve mastered the art of public speaking, but how exactly do you showcase that valuable skill to employers? There are a few easy ways you can do this, and none of them require much time:
Create a video resume or introduction. Video resumes are an excellent way to help employers get a feel for your personality and your overall presence in a room–something a paper resume could never communicate. Consider filming yourself giving a quick rundown of your resume, or a basic introduction–this is a good example. But remember to keep it between 30 seconds and two minutes–we all have short attention spans, and that goes even moreso for busy HR managers!

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During my final year of doctoral work, a mentor and I landed on the topic of the pressure to produce scholarship very early in one’s career. As a literary scholar, I was feeling the pressure to hit the market with not only a completed dissertation but with at least a handful of articles in print and, ideally, the initial stages of a book contract. The mentor, a traditionalist with little taste for chronological snobbery, pish-poshed my concerns and said, “If I had my way, we wouldn’t allow humanities scholars to publish anything until they are at least 40. Everything they produce prior to that reflects shallow reading, callow ambition, or the need to fill the pages of useless and redundant journals.” This was, of course, contrary to the advice I had been given in most quarters.

On the other hand, I have since heard others say that professors are somewhat past their peaks by 40, both in the classroom and in the generation of theoretical concepts. In fact, I have heard more than one person say that this is why tenure should be eradicated, as it preserves people who have outserved their best productivity. These critics were, by the way, faculty members and not administrators or chief financial officers.

We add new jobs in South Africa on this website every.

REFERENCE: 2012/226/GP
JOB TITLE: COURT INTERPRETER (1 POST)
CENTRE: MAGISTRATE SOWETO
SALARY: R108 078 – R 127 311 per annum. The successful
candidate will be required to sign a performance
agreement.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Grade 12 or equivalent qualification;
• Tertiary qualification will be an advantage;
• Applicants will be subjected to a Language test;
• A valid drivers’ license will be an added advantage.
Key Language requirements: a combination of the following will be
considered.
English, Xitsonga, Venda, Isizulu, South Sotho, North Sotho,
Swati will serve as an added advantage.
Skills and Competencies:
• Computer literacy (MS Office);
• Good communication(written and verbal);
• Administration and organizational skills;
• Ability to maintain interpersonal relations;
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
DUTIES:

Languages, mobility and employability...

In the framework of the European Day of Languages, the French-speaking Belgian national agency AEF-Europe (Agence francophone pour l’éducation et la formation tout au long de la vie), together with the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Forem and Bruxelles Formation, is organising a promotional conference about innovative language projects that have been awarded the European Language Label in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles since 1999.

Do you wonder if you have what it takes to be a translator or interpreter? This test won’t tell you that. What this test might tell you is whether you have the personality of a (stereo)typical translator, public service interpreter, conference interpreter or PhD researcher. Simply write down the letter that corresponds to your answer to each question below and then match them to the key at the bottom.

1) At a party you are the kind of person who:
a) hides at the back, reading the new dictionary you brought from home
b) goes round the room, drinking all the coffee and talking incessantly
c) loves to be in a smaller group, making sure people talk in turns
d) brings Tupperware to take as many leftovers as possible home with you

2) Your ideal work environment is:
a) an office in your garage, surrounded by specialist dictionaries and the works of obscure authors
b) locking someone in a tiny room with you, while you talk incessantly
c) waiting about 3 hours for your clients to turn up
d) until 2pm, your bed, after 2pm, anywhere where the food is free and you have access to journals

3) The difference between translation and interpreting is:
a) the former produces perfection; the latter produces approximation
b) about £150 per day, mwhahahahaha
c) Unfair working agreements! Interpreters of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your travel expenses!
d) most interesting. Shall we write a journal article discussing it?

Dear Dr. Culp, I’m looking for anything to get me a job – online professor (no experience, just a bachelor’s degree), writer/editor/copywriter or entry-level speech writer. I've been actively searching for a job for o...

Tanzania News::TheCitizen is Tanzania's leading Newspaper that offers latest Tanzania News on Elections, Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Jobs.

By Joseph Mtebe, Citizen Correspondent
I had never taken CV writing seriously before, and I used to think no one ever did. It was just a piece of printed paper detailing what college one went to, and what one had done before. That is why I had taken the liberty to write whatever my mind considered flashy and trendy on my CV, such as ‘mushroom grower,’ an activity I just saw my mum doing, but had never seriously taken part in before.

So, I almost passed out last week when a panelist in an interview confined his questioning to mushroom farming, a thing I barely know, just because it’s on my CV.

You see, since I have no better thing to do, I’ve indulged myself in my mother’s mushroom business. I have seen myself rising through the ranks to become her executive assistant, legal advisor and marketing manager, all rolled into one.

It’s a tiring full time unpaid job, save for the housing, meals and health benefits I acquire by virtue of being her son.
Considering all of that, I took it upon myself to update my CV, and display the new experience.But it cost me a-would-be job last week because given my clueless answers, only a fool would have taken me seriously.

When I look at my carefully-drafted CV, there is one thing you will quickly notice: There’s not much to write about, apparently.

But it’s always been comforting to learn that I can google and download all the latest CV samples there are on the internet, and pick one I deem impressing. I would edit and add in my particulars.

Some employers will tell you that it is even commendable, given the poor CV writing skills most of our graduates possess these days.

Learn how to do an excellent job Interview in English...

One of the fastest-growing needs of the New York metro community is for qualified and professionally trained interpreters and translators.

Translation or interpreting job posting, entitled: Technical brief translation on TRADOS 2007...

Ah yes, the holy grail of translation and interpreting: the United Nations. We have the pleasure of knowing a few top-notch linguists who work in New York and Vienna, and now's your chance to sit for the competitive examination if you apply and get invited.

Here is the announcement we just received from our wonderful colleague Marcela Jenney-Reyes. We thought we'd spread the word!

We are pleased to announce that competitive examinations for the recruitment of Spanish-language associate translators/précis writers and associate verbatim reporters are scheduled to be held on 17 and 18 September 2012, respectively.

In addition to giving job-specific tests, the best way to tell if applicants carry the skills to perform specific tasks is to ask very direct questions about how they’ve used each skill in the past.

Robert Half International regional manager Lori Hourigan said there are five ways to make a cover letter stand out from the rest.

Have you spent a portion of your adult life raising your children as a stay-at-home parent? Or have you been unemployed for years but took on short-term or contract positions while waiting for a permanent position?

Don't look at your resume as a way to get a job interview. It's your introduction to someone you don't know.

 
La Revista Internacional de Medicina y Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte busca traductores de español a inglés para crear un servicio complementario de traducción exclusivo para los artículos publicados en ella o pendientes de publicar.

Practice answering interview questions and you improve your chances of making a good impression and landing the job.

Follow these rules to ensure your résumé makes an impression and helps you land a job.

A business school graduate's magnum opus isn't a thesis; it's a résumé. This is particularly true since advancing a career is a major reason to commit to additional education, especially for those hoping to enter into a profession—such as accountant, financial adviser, or Web developer—where having a master's degree in business administration would be beneficial.

If you're nearing your degree's completion and beginning the job hunt, then it's imperative to perfect the document that best sells and summarizes your professional qualifications. Career experts offer these six résumé-writing tips for you:

A Short Primer Fundsforngos.org - March 2012 Introduction: Fundsforngos.org receives many questions about NGO careers, especially about finding a job at the UN, so we decided to prepare a short primer on this topic for fundsforngos.org users - mostly...

"Hoy quiero compartir esta entrada hablándoos de un tema que tengo en mente desde hace ya unas semanas, y del que, aunque ya he visto tratado en algún que otro blog, quiero comentaros mi experiencia: el CURRÍCULUM VÍTAE."