Translation Intern

RWS Group

3mo ago

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Business, Operations & Strategy
Sheffield

Requirements

Active Listening: Listens actively and is attentive to others.
Attention to Quality & Detail: Diligently completes responsibilities, producing high quality results.
Initiative:Takes prompt action (e.g., escalates) without being asked or required to.
Managing Work: Completes work efficiently by effectively managing time and resources.
Persistence: Stays with a position or plan of action until the desired objective is achieved or is no longer relevant.
Personal Development: Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development by proactively seeking and acting upon opportunities to grow new capabilities, experience, skills, and knowledge.
Verbal Communication: Effectively expresses ideas verbally in individual and group situations. Written Communication Expresses ideas clearly in email, reports, letters and other documents.

Responsibilities

Performs basic responsibilities that help him/her learn about the job and function and contributes to achieving team goals. Works on tasks with guidance and supervision from a senior team member or project team. May assist in performing more complex tasks as a way to learn and support the work done by a senior team member or project team. Some common areas of responsibility:
Learns and applies processes, techniques, methodologies utilizing academic knowledge (e.g., programming/coding, testing/quality checking, translation, review/editing, use of technology).
Learns about the function, its purpose, business drivers and how the function contributes to the overall organization. Uses this information to better understand their tasks and how they contribute to team goals.
Learns skills essential to working independently and as part of a team.
Seeks guidance and support from team members on how to approach their work, as well as seeks feedback on how they are doing (e.g., effective communications, clarifying assignments, team work, quality and responsiveness.)
Translation Intern:
Attends applicable training sessions and ensuring information is assimilated and actioned
Completes the applicable internship programme modules
Translates/post-edits a variety of text types from the relevant source languages into various flavours of English
Completes source/target review of translations from a variety of text types
Completes any other linguistic tasks as requested (e.g. LSO; target-only review; conversion)
Consistently works to defined productivity metrics for all linguistic tasks
Achieves the specified productivity & utilisation targets
Adheres to the appropriate quality standards for all tasks Job Profile
Uses the relevant SDL tools & technology to optimum effect and adopting a proactive approach to learning about tools & technology
Proactively learns from all linguistic feedback provided and ensuring continuous personal growth
Adheres to the appropriate SDL & English Network Office processes and procedures in all instances
Makes an active contribution to the performance of the assigned vertical team in the first instance and the English Network Office in a wider sense

FAQs

What are the primary objectives of the Translation Intern role?

The primary objectives of the Translation Intern role are to develop professional skills, gain real-world work experience, and contribute to team and project goals.

In which functional areas do Interns perform their roles?

Interns perform their roles in a variety of different functional areas, such as translation/linguistics and software engineering.

What are the typical types of responsibilities performed by Interns?

The typical types of responsibilities performed by Interns include tasks that help develop professional skills, provide real-world work experience, and contribute to team and project goals.

Can you provide examples of specific tasks performed by Translation Interns?

Specific tasks performed by Translation Interns may include translating documents, assisting with localization projects, and collaborating with team members on translation projects.

RWS Group

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Technology

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

1958

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We are the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with people globally by communicating business critical content at scale, and enabling the protection and realization of their ideas and innovations. We work with 90 of top 100 global brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide.