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Career Details :: Interpreters and Translators

Description

Translate or interpret written, oral, or sign language text into another language for others.

Experience

Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Education

Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.

Tasks

• Translates approximate or exact message of speaker into specified language, orally or by using hand signs for hearing impaired.
• Translates responses from second language to first.
• Reads written material, such as legal documents, scientific works, or news reports and rewrites material into specified language, according to established rules of grammar.
• Receives information on subject to be discussed prior to interpreting session.
• Listens to statements of speaker to ascertain meaning and to remember what is said, using electronic audio system.

Related Careers

• Caption Writers
  
• Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Immigration and Customs Inspectors
  
• Music Directors
  
• Tour Guides and Escorts
  
• Travel Guides
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Comprehension
• Speech Recognition
• Written Expression

General Work Activities

• Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Processing Information
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Documenting/Recording Information

Important Skills

• Active Listening
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Writing
  
• Speaking
  
• Service Orientation
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Provide a Service to Others

Related Majors

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American Sign Language	[ add ]
American Sign Language/English Interpreting	[ add ]
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies	[ add ]
Business/Foreign Language	[ add ]
Combined Foreign Languages	[ add ]
Communication Disorders	[ add ]
Communication Disorders/Sciences	[ add ]
Communication Sciences/Disorders	[ add ]
Communication Specialist	[ add ]
Communicative Disorders	[ add ]
Comparative Languages	[ add ]
English/Modern Languages	[ add ]
English/World Literature	[ add ]
Foreign Language	[ add ]
Foreign Language Studies	[ add ]
Foreign Language/International Business	[ add ]
Foreign Language/International Studies	[ add ]
Foreign Language/Literature	[ add ]
Foreign Languages	[ add ]
Foreign Languages/Cultures	[ add ]
Foreign Languages/Literatures	[ add ]
Foreign Languages/Literatures/Cultures	[ add ]
Foreign Languages/Multiple Emphasis	[ add ]
Foreign Languages/Pedagogy	[ add ]
Foreign Literature	[ add ]
Group Languages	[ add ]
International Business/Language	[ add ]
International Business/Language Area Studies	[ add ]
International Business/Modern Language	[ add ]
International Language/Business	[ add ]
International Languages	[ add ]
Interpreter Training	[ add ]
Interpreting for the Hearing Impaired	[ add ]
Language/Communication Disorders	[ add ]
Languages	[ add ]
Modern Foreign Language	[ add ]
Modern Foreign Languages	[ add ]
Modern Languages	[ add ]
Modern Languages/Cultures	[ add ]
Modern Languages/Literature	[ add ]
Modern Languages/Literatures	[ add ]
Multilanguage	[ add ]
Secondary Education/Foreign Language	[ add ]
Sign Language Interpreter	[ add ]
Speech Arts/Communicative Disorders	[ add ]

Institutions Offering Related Majors

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