Certified Translation Services

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Certification Translation Services

• Presentation, Feb 2015
• www.certifiedtranslationservices.co.uk
• info_at_certifiedtranslationuk.com

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The Translation Market in London

• Small
• 70 are one-person businesses
• Largest ones have around 50 employees
• No market entry barriers, anyone can register for
  a business license and offer translation services

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The Translation Market in London

• Professional Organizations
• Membership in Chamber of Commerce obligatory if
  provider has a business. Business license
  required if service is provided on a commercial
  basis, i.e., freelancers are exempt if they
  perform the services themselves (no
  subcontracting)
• Association of university graduates
• Association of literary translators

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What is a Standard?

• Standard
• A standard is a document that has been defined in
  consensus and has been acknowledged by a
  recognized body. It defines rules, guidelines or
  criteria that apply generally to an activity or
  the outcome of an activity that can be repeated.

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What is Quality?

• Quality is not an absolute value but varies by
• context
• purpose
• Quality refers to product quality, service
  quality and process quality

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What is Certification?

• Certification
• Certification is a process or the outcome of a
  process which confirms that a company or person
  complies with the requirements of a standard.

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Benefits for the Translation Service Provider

• The certification process is an opportunity to
  analyze, standardize and make your work processes
  more efficient
• Introduce quality management quality assurance
  and quality control procedures

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Overview of Relevant Standards in UK
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Basic qualifications

• Translating competence Translating competence
  includes the ability to professionally translate
  texts. It also comprises the ability to correctly
  assess problems of text comprehension and text
  production as well as the ability to render the
  target text in accordance with service
  specifications and to explain the reasons for
  choices made.

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Basic qualifications

• Linguistic and textual competence in the source
  language(s) and the target language(s)
  Linguistic and textual competence includes the
  ability to understand and use the source language
  and target languages as appropriate to specific
  situations. Textual competence requires knowledge
  of text type conventions for as wide a range of
  standard-language and specialised texts as
  possible and includes the ability to apply this
  knowledge in the production of texts.

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Basic qualifications

• Research competence, information acquisition and
  processing Research competence includes the
  ability to efficiently acquire the additional
  linguistic and specialised knowledge necessary to
  understand the source text and to produce the
  target text. It also comprises the ability to
  acquire implied knowledge, to assess ones own
  knowledge in a self-critical way, to eliminate
  any existing knowledge gaps and to integrate new
  information with existing knowledge.

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Basic qualifications

• Research competence also requires experience in
  the use of research tools and the ability to
  develop suitable strategies for the efficient
  utilisation of the information sources available.

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Basic qualifications

• Cultural competence Cultural competence includes
  the ability to make use of information about the
  knowledge base, behavioural standards and value
  systems that characterise the source and target
  cultures.

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Basic qualifications

• Technical competence Technical competence
  comprises the abilities and skills required for
  professional preparation and production of
  translations. A minimum requirement shall be the
  ability to use word processing programs and
  terminology collections.

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About Certified Translation Services

• The Certified Translation team prepares profession
  al translation services of academic, legal, techni
  cal, businessand medical documents from and into
  a wide variety of languages. We follow our
  clients guidelines to create top quality
  translations in one language or multiple
  languages.

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Contact Us

• Telephone [phone]
• Telephone (Out of office hours) 44 (0)7903
  127423
• Fax [phone]
• Email info_at_certifiedtranslationuk.com
• Webwww.certifiedtranslationservices.co.uk