From interpretation agency manager to interpreter
15 of the 19 essential skills of a interpreter are already essential for a interpretation agency manager — about 79% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 15
- skills carry over
- 4
- would be new
- 79%
- of the target job covered
- 19
- essential skills of a interpreter
What a interpreter does
Interpreters understand and convert spoken communication from one language to another. They retain considerable amounts of information, often with the aid of note-taking, and communicate it immediately after whilst keeping the nuances and stress of the message in the recipient language.
What carries over
15 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- develop a translation strategy
- follow an ethical code of conduct for translation activities
- grammar
- interpret spoken language between two parties
- interpreting modes
- manage a good diction
- master language rules
- observe confidentiality
- perform bilateral interpretation
- preserve meaning of original speech
- speak different languages
- spelling
- translate language concepts
- translate spoken language consecutively
- translate spoken language simultaneously
What would be new
4 skillsEssential for a interpreter and not for a interpretation agency manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from interpretation agency manager
1 roles- translation agency manager17 skills in common
← interpretation agency managerinterpreter →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a interpreter?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.