Poll: Have you ever recommended another translator for a job you could not accept? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever recommended another translator for a job you could not accept?".
This poll was originally submitted by Norman Buhagiar
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A forum topic will appear each time a ne... See more This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever recommended another translator for a job you could not accept?".
This poll was originally submitted by Norman Buhagiar
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| | | | Brandis (X)
Local time: 15:00
English to German
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| The other translator I recommend | Aug 28, 2006 |
must be good, else I lose my good client. There are risks. Best Brandis
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Had to laugh out loud when I saw this new poll. I had just gotten an email for a job I couldn't accept (wrong language pair) and came to ProZ to get the URL of the profile page of the person I wanted to recommend.
| | | | Parrot 
Spain
Local time: 15:00
Spanish to English
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| More than 10 | Aug 28, 2006 |
I do it as a matter of system and the person recommended is usually an area specialist.
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Alicia Casal
Argentina
Local time: 10:00
English to Spanish
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I know many Argentine translators that are absolutely recommendable.
Alicia
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I usually recommend two or three colleagues when I am asked to act as an interpreter in conferences, seminars and so on.
I do this because I am sure of their professional skills and performance.
| | | | Ala Rabie
Egypt
Local time: 15:00
Japanese to Arabic
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I only recommend other translators for very specific projects requiring local accent that I do not master.
Otherwise, I get really nervous about referring my own clients to other people--a double-edged knife to me; there is a possibility that I might lose my clients for good if the other translator provided them lower rates! They might even assume that the quality of her/his translation in MY fields and pairs must be decent enough that I dared to recommend her/him.
I pr... See more I only recommend other translators for very specific projects requiring local accent that I do not master.
Otherwise, I get really nervous about referring my own clients to other people--a double-edged knife to me; there is a possibility that I might lose my clients for good if the other translator provided them lower rates! They might even assume that the quality of her/his translation in MY fields and pairs must be decent enough that I dared to recommend her/him.
I prefer to overwork myself in order to please my clients and keep my status as their go-to person as long as possible.
~Ala
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| | | | Irene N
United States
Local time: 08:00
English to Russian
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enshrine wrote:
They might even assume that the quality of her/his translation in MY fields and pairs must be decent enough that I dared to recommend her/him.
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I do all the time, but from the pool of people who do not undercut each other - we work together a lot, we are friends and colleagues, and we are above petty theft.
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Ala Rabie
Egypt
Local time: 15:00
Japanese to Arabic
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| Friendtranslators / translatogangs :D | Aug 29, 2006 |
IreneN wrote: ?? I do all the time, but from the pool of people who do not undercut each other - we work together a lot, we are friends and colleagues, and we are above petty theft.
That would be an entirely different thing, Irene
~Ala
alamnesis.com - Expect beyond perfection with the power of Semiology.
| | | | Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:00
Russian to English
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In memoriam | Several times, mostly through getting into an unintended situation | Aug 29, 2006 |
I accepted a free offer from Yellow Pages for a brief entry in their local directory. It turned out that they just put me down as a translator, without saying which languages. So I often get calls from people wanting translations I can't do. But I am a member of a local ITI translators' group, so I can recommend translators from my list of them.
The only other occasions have been to farm out parts of jobs I thought were too big for me (with the client's approval, of course).
[Edi... See more I accepted a free offer from Yellow Pages for a brief entry in their local directory. It turned out that they just put me down as a translator, without saying which languages. So I often get calls from people wanting translations I can't do. But I am a member of a local ITI translators' group, so I can recommend translators from my list of them.
The only other occasions have been to farm out parts of jobs I thought were too big for me (with the client's approval, of course).
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