Translation industry

The past 18 months have been challenging for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Britain. No sooner was ...

Most professions come with certain preconceptions. This is especially true of more ‘traditional’ professions...

“Do you have a few minutes so I could run something by you?” These words come out of my mouth quite frequent...

Every year, we work with our partner universities to offer students summer internships in translation....

It’s a new year and (arguably) a new decade; the time for experts to demonstrate their expertise by foretellin...

The pressure is on. Five hundred pairs of eyes are fixed on me, some expectantly, others critically. I have no i...

This autumn and winter, STP will be attending three exciting language industry conferences. The first, the ATC S...

The conundrum of what constitutes translation as opposed to post-editing of machine translation is one that has ...

Business tends to be more interested in output than input. Clients rarely ask how you put together the service y...

Although it feels like the term “transcreation” only made a fairly recent appearance in the vocabulary of th...

History is written by the victors. I pondered this much debated quote when studying the latest language services...

So, you’ve got great marketing copy in one language and a burning desire to reach out to customers around the ...

The eleventh annual Language of Business conference hosted by the Globalization and Localization Association (GA...

Vendor Management represents a significant opportunity for Language Service Providers (LSPs) and end buyers of l...

Any LSP worth its salt will take pride in the quality of the translations it delivers. Quality is an essential p...

While the political Brexit cauldron keeps churning, seething and frothing, UK businesses of every size and in ev...

Have you ever wondered who translates the Nordic texts you encounter from Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish an...

Sixteen students approaching the end of their studies. One teacher interested in enhancing their employability. ...

Language provision is a service industry, and like many other services, the quality of delivery is dependent on ...

English is currently the world’s most commonly taught foreign language, and it is so widely spoken that it is ...

Translation cycles are short and getting shorter, meaning work needs to be turned around quicker. A good way of ...

STP’s Learning and Development Manager Raisa McNab joined the company as a fresh graduate in 2003. Ten years l...

A brief visit to my native Finland last week included a day at #KIELI2018, the annual conference of Finnish Lang...

There is no such thing as a successful modern language service provider that does not invest in sound translatio...

Voluntary engagement in the affairs of your industry is a matter of give and take. In fact, the giving and takin...

Another month, another acquisition. Private equity investors have deemed the highly-fragmented language market t...

Call it a fact or a blanket statement. But, in our experience at least, translation companies tend to attract �...

A good translation agency client is one that pays on time. End of story? For some, perhaps. But if that’s all...

The smiling hair stylist takes your coat and sits you in front of the mirror. “So, what would you like today?�...

Anyone working in marketing knows they must sell the sizzle, not the sausage. Clients don’t buy features, they...

When I visit universities to talk to translation students about working in the industry, it is apparent that the...

In the past month, I have listened to a number of great speakers sharing their wisdom on the causes of and solut...