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Following on from our last article on how to get your mentoring relationship off to a good start, this month we are going to look at another important step in in this process and that is how to set and agree the ground rules that will apply throughout your mentoring journey. This will provide a solid structure for developing your mentoring relationship.
Why do you need Ground Rules?...
The Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS, stand in solidarity with our colleagues and all people of Ukraine who have been affected by the atrocities happening now in their home country. We are deeply concerned for all of those who must flee their homes and seek safety abroad. Within the last couple of weeks, we have noticed an increasing need for translation and...
We posted this question on our social media platforms and asked our following of language professionals to let us know their thoughts. We received some great responses from this post, so we collected them and put them into this blog. Please continue reading to see what your fellow linguists answered:
"Learning languages enabled me to deal with amazing people and learn different...
Traditionally coaching and mentoring have sometimes been viewed as tools that are used to help with career advancement, but that isn’t their only use. They can be used very effectively to support users in many other aspects of working life, including supporting well-being and mental health.
As remote working and technological advances means that the line between work and home life...
On X/Twitter, we asked our followers to tell us what advice they would give to their younger selves before starting a career in translating or interpreting.
Below are some of their responses:
1. Work hard and study 2. Have a business plan 3. Make sure your skills are up to scratch...
by Megan Bowler, Student Affiliate member
Though many translators find it helpful to make use of translation tools as they see fit, the possibility of clients misunderstanding the contributions of these tools can lead to translators being devalued. Responses to the CIOL’s 2021 translation survey indicate that technological developments are changing not only the way translation...
As we gradually see the pandemic restrictions being lifted, it is clear that life will never return to the same ‘normal” as pre-pandemic. The workplace has undergone a quiet revolution in terms of the way people now want to work and it has been proven that new ways of working can be implemented.
For many, home working or partial homeworking has become the norm and is likely to remain...
by CIOL
In response to the crisis in Afghanistan, we have recently published an interview with Mehdi Bahrami MCIL CL, an experienced interpreter and translator as well as a language and cultural advisor.
In this video, Mehdi talks to CIOL's CEO John Worne to discuss the professional opportunities that exist for working in Dari and Pashto in...
by John Forster
Overview on back cover
This little booklet, inspired by and dedicated to my two grandchildren, consists of a series of anecdotes in which I recall events and personalities during my 25 years of military service and thereafter, with the odd white-knuckle episode, making the most of the dying embers of the British Empire. I am now in my 87th year, ostensibly fit...
by Hero Cai FCIL, CL, MITI
It is commonly acknowledged that being a translator or interpreter requires bilingualism (or multilingualism). But is it the same case with teaching English to speakers of other languages? We seem to be less certain when there is a native English speaker who does not speak the mother tongue of his/her students and a local teacher whose native language is not...