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By James Thorogood
Is Trados Studio for life? What if I buy a new laptop, would I be able to use it there too or would I have to re-buy it?
When you purchase Trados Studio, you have the choice between purchasing a perpetual licence or subscription.
Purchasing a perpetual licence of Trados Studio gives you a downloadable desktop application that is yours to keep, however...
By Tess Pike
A career using languages, requiring good organisational and people management skills
At school my careers adviser listened to me tell her how much I loved languages and that all I wanted from a job was to speak German. I thought I was shy, because, as the youngest of five, I never managed to get a word in edgeways at home, so for many years I followed her advice and...
According to a 2019 survey by Pearson Business School, nearly a fifth of graduates were found to be not “workplace-ready”.
Just 13% of the 531 employers and HR leaders who took part in the research felt that graduates were ready to hit the ground running after university.
48% of the surveyed employers and HR managers said that graduates lacked leadership skills, 44% felt...
In this article, our CIOL Corporate Partner Louise Killeen Translations (LKT) show how they help early career translators either become staff or develop their skills to become successful freelance translators.
On our website and in published articles, we’ve talked extensively about our unique Translator Academy model and how we use it to transform our new recruits into fully...
“The key to being a good mentor is to help people become more of who they already are – not to make them more like you.”
The traditional view of a mentor is someone who shares experience and imparts knowledge. In contemporary mentoring a mentor does a lot more listening than talking. A mentor’s role isn’t to tell a mentee what to do, it is to act as a guide. A mentor asks questions and...
By Emma Gledhill MCIL CL
Both Switzerland and the UK are very keen to replicate existing arrangements as far as possible, with the exception of free movement of people. Like the UK, Switzerland has some strong anti-immigration sentiment, not least from the point of view of wage dumping, but has just voted overwhelmingly *not* to scrap freedom of movement with the EU, which would also...
As she retires as CEO, Ann Carlisle considers developments to languages in the UK during a 40-year career, and what they mean for the present and future.
The world has changed dramatically and probably irreversibly in recent months, but looking back on a language career spanning 40 years – the last seven with CIOL – change has been a constant backdrop. The recent report ‘Towards a...
Mentoring is a great way to boost your career, either as a mentee working with a more experienced mentor to guide and support you through career challenges; or as a mentor using your skills and experience to help mentees whilst gaining new perspectives.
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By Hiba Bayyat MCIL/RPSI/DPSI-Law
‘No, you can cross this bit out, it is irrelevant’, that was the worst advice I was given whilst preparing my CV during an employability workshop a few years back. True story!
Nothing you have done in your life is irrelevant to what you are doing now or planning to do in the future. In fact all of your skills and experiences, past and present,...