This introductory course focuses on job opportunities for persons with language skills. We will consider the skills required and the knowledge needed in order to perform as project managers for multilingual translation projects.

This lectures looks at the growth in the translation industry and the potential for utilizing foreign language skills to step up to a management role.

This lecture describes the processes involved in managing multilingual translation projects and it also considers some of the issues that arise during the life of a project.

Here we delve into the steps taken in managing a project in order to determine if the role of translation project manager is something we aspire to.

In this lecture we will process a file received from the client for translation. The end product will be a live performance of a duo singing the lyrics to My Way. We will make assignments and analyze their work. We will summarize what we have done, the procedures followed, and we will also have an opportunity to view the final product in a video clip of the aforesaid performance.

Lecture 6 is Part 1 of our Project for this introductory course. We will simulate the receipt of a document from the client (the document can be downloaded from the supplementary material attached to this lecture). We will review the source document and determine the teams needed and the time required to complete the project.

In this lecture we will discuss the groundwork involved in starting a project, the use of legacy documents, and the advantages of preparing source document files (templates) for team members. We will go through the process of selecting team members, the use of collaborative software, and the procedures for monitoring job progress (task completion).

We will discuss quality as it relates to translation work and our responsibility as project managers.

This lecture indicates some of the major players in the industry who are currently providing job opportunities in project management.