Last week I attended a Grenoble Ecole de Management conference on the future of manufacturing. The high-level panel — top executives from major French corporations and a journalist from a leading economic daily — brought in quite a crowd, and the auditorium was jam packed. One nugget that grabbed the attention of a number of [...]

According to this article in the LA Times today, today’s translation and interpreting market is about more than just speaking two languages — increasingly, it is about speaking two languages and possessing expertise in a particular subject area. This results in high-demand niches like « German to English waste management » or « Russian to Farsi nuclear engineering » [...]

The recent translation crowdsourcing debate has got me thinking about the many different segments on the translation market–which has made me realize more than ever what a jungle it is for buyers. Add to this an interesting discussion I had recently with a marketing executive from a multinational (dissatisfied with marketing translations purchased from some [...]

It looks like Areva might be getting ready to overhaul its branding as an employer. What looks like an excerpt from a creative agency brief has just been published in a translation job ad on a public website. Human resources policies are most likely a key pillar of any company’s post-crisis bounce-back strategy. And innovative [...]

Today I was browsing online translation workplace Proz.com when I stumbled upon this question asked in the « Kudoz » terminology forum. The question is an interesting one (how to translate « cascader » into English). What is cringe-inducing, however, is the disturbing lack of concern for the confidentiality of customer documents. This is clearly an internal document and [...]

The past few months have been busy ones, at least in my corner of the translation industry (corporate communications, including financial). The crisis currently buffeting the financial markets has generated a lot of analysis and commentary – all of which needs to be translated! This surge in demand has brought with it a bevy of [...]