Everyone knows the world is getting smaller and smaller. As it happens, this makes it a very good time to be an interpreter or translator. The job opportunities being presented to them are getting bigger and bigger.

True, there are a lot of people who can speak their language of origin well and can get around with another. The thing is, a translator/interpreter must be fluent in at least two, sometimes even more. What distinguishes the two apart are translators focus on written communications, while the interpreter concentrates on oral. From there, it’s highly dependent on the languages one works with. Those who speak the more common languages (English, Spanish, French, Chinese) have more work than those who speak less common ones.

One thing most translators usually have in common is they actually grew up around more than one language. This could be due to them being immigrants from one country to another, having family who are from other lands or, like Army kids, they may have done more than the average amount of travel in their lifetimes.

Still, speaking a language and being fluent in it are two different things. Interpreters usually also took more than one language while they were in high school. They also got adept at navigating around a computer.

They also continued studying their various languages when they got to college by enrolling with an on campus or online university with strong linguistics courses, if not outright degrees. Indeed, one thing one might do is also look for an institute of higher learning that also just happens to have good schools in the sciences or business. That’s because a translator who can speak scientific or business terminology in several languages is extremely more desirable than one who just studied literature.

However, what will make a person even more desirable to a recruiter is if they had some life experience in both countries. It doesn’t matter if they were exchange students or just visiting family in the “old country”, hiring authorities value that kind of life experience more than anything else.

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