Hello, I'm Zahar, and I'm a fourth-year medical student studying in the UK.你好,我是Zahar,在英国学习的一名四年级医学生。
If you're a bilingual person who's looking for a job with no experience,如果你是一个没有经验正在找工作的双语人士。
hopefully you can learn from this and apply希望你能从中学习并申请
for the companies I'll be recommending and start earning money.我推荐的公司,并开始赚钱。
These are the points we'll go through, so let's go for it.这些是我们将要讨论的要点,所以让我们开始吧。
I earn between £2,700 to £3,000 a month.我每月挣2700到3000英镑。
This depends on how many hours I work.这取决于我工作多少小时。
This is through working as an over-the-furn interpreter for a translation service agency.这是通过在一家翻译服务机构担任电话口译员实现的。
Most of my clients around 80% of them are healthcare professionals,我的大多数客户,其中大约80%是医疗保健专业人士。
such as doctors, nurses, midwives,例如医生、护士、助产士。
caregivers, and the ambulance.护理人员,以及救护车。
rest of the 20% of my clients are from metropolitan我剩下的20%客户来自大都市
police in the London UK or from FBI in the US英国伦敦的警察或美国联邦调查局
and also sometimes I get calls from bank and from gas and electric companies.而且有时我也会接到来自银行以及燃气和电力公司的电话。
In summary, my clients and the nature of the calls I translate for can vary a lot.总之,我的客户以及我翻译的电话的性质可以有很大变化。
You translate a specific language like Spanish,你翻译一种特定的语言,比如西班牙语。
whichever language you're self and the customer can speak to English.无论你自己和客户能说英语的哪种语言。
Then you translate from English back to that language.然后你从英语翻译回那种语言。
I thought the best way to explain how over the phone我认为解释如何在电话上……的最佳方式
translation works is to show you guys an example of it.翻译的作用是给你们展示一个例子。
So I hope you guys appreciate my terrific acting skills.所以我希望你们欣赏我出色的表演技巧。
Hello, this is Elia, interpreter ID 00 for Turkish.你好,我是埃利亚,土耳其语的口译员,编号00。
This call may be monitored for training and quality assurance purposes.此通话可能会被监听,用于培训和质保目的。
Is your customer with you or would you like me to call them for you? Hello, interpreter.你的客户在你身边吗?还是你希望我帮你给他们打电话?你好,口译员。
I'm a doctor working in a GP surgery, and I'm here with my patient who's a baby and his dad.我是一名在全科诊所工作的医生,今天和我的病人——一个婴儿和他的爸爸在一起。
Could you please ask the dad what's the problem and how can we help him today?请问你能问一下爸爸,今天有什么问题以及我们如何帮助他吗?
My son has been having diarrhea for the last three days.我儿子过去三天一直在腹泻。
Alright, could you tell me a bit more about this diarrhea?好的,你能告诉我更多关于这次腹泻的情况吗?
I genuinely enjoy this job because you get to witness the most real moments of the lives of strangers.我真心喜欢这份工作,因为你能见证陌生人生活中最真实的时刻。
You hear about their life stories and it helps you appreciate the difficult and different lives that other people live.你听到他们的人生故事,这有助于你欣赏他人所经历的艰难和不同的生活。
And I feel humbled to be able to help them.并且我感到很谦卑,能够帮助他们。
On top of that, I own money but I'm in my pajamas and from the comfort of my own home.除此之外,我赚着钱,却穿着睡衣,在自己舒适的家里。
if you'd like to see a vlog of how I own money and如果你想看一个关于我如何赚钱的vlog,并且……
spend my day as a freelance interpreter,我作为一名自由职业口译员度过一天。
you can see that on my channel as well and I'll put the link here.你也可以在我的频道上看到,我会把链接放在这里。
This is a common question that这是一个常见的问题。
I get asked by family and friends when我经常被家人和朋友问到,当
I tell them I work as a我告诉他们我是一名
freelance interpreter.自由职业口译员。
I get paid for every second that I'm on the call for.我按通话时长计费,每一秒都有报酬。
So if I don't receive calls, then I don't get paid.所以如果我没有接到电话,我就没有收入。
But most of the time that I'm logged into the interpreter portal, I do receive calls.但大多数时候,只要我登录口译员平台,我就能接到电话。
because I get calls from both the US and the UK clients.因为我接到来自美国和英国客户的电话。
So if it's night time for the UK and所以如果英国是夜间。
there is no translation services to do for them then there is没有翻译服务需要为他们做,那么就有
always calls coming from the US because for them it would be daytime and总是有来自美国的电话,因为对他们来说会是白天。
they would be in need of translation services.他们会需要翻译服务。
mostly between 8am to 6pm I get calls from the UK and大部分在早上8点到下午6点之间,我会接到来自英国的电话。
after 6pm I usually get calls from the US.下午6点后,我通常会接到来自美国的电话。
This is the online interpreter portal so here each one of these are calls that这是在线口译员门户网站,所以这里的每一个都是电话。
I have received that day and我那天接到的电话。
the duration of those calls I've shown in seconds.这些电话的时长我已经用秒显示出来了。
For example, this call lasted for 6,703 seconds, which would make almost two hours.例如,这个电话持续了6703秒,这差不多是两个小时。
How much I get paid is calculated by adding up all these seconds.我的工资是通过累加所有这些秒数来计算的。
If you receive a call, you don't have to be actively translating in that call to get paid.如果你接到一个电话,你不必在通话中积极翻译就能获得报酬。
For example, if a doctor is examining a patient or taking blood from them,例如,如果医生正在检查病人或从他们身上抽血。
and there is nothing to translate during并且在那段时间里没有什么需要翻译的。
that time, but I still get paid for the time that I wait for them to finish what they're doing.但我仍然为我等待他们完成手头工作的时间获得报酬。
a banker puts me on hold to write down some一个银行家让我等待,以便在他的电脑上记下一些
notes on his computer then I get paid for笔记在他的电脑上,然后我因此得到报酬
Basically every second that基本上每一秒
I'm on the call for I get paid doesn't matter if我在通话中,因为我得到报酬,不管是否
I'm back to the translating or not.我是否回到翻译工作或不是。
There are so many over the phone translation companies because after COVID hit,有很多电话翻译公司,因为新冠疫情爆发后。
as you know, everything moved from face to如你所知,一切都从面对面转向
face to over the phone.面对面到通过电话。
And it stayed that way even after most of the COVID restrictions have been removed.即使在大部分新冠限制措施被取消后,情况依然如此。
And thankfully, finally,而且,谢天谢地,终于。
companies started caring more about inclusivity and equal opportunities of people with cultural and language barriers.公司开始更加关注有文化和语言障碍的人的包容性和平等机会。
But these are the top three companies I'd suggest you to apply with no experience in translating.但这是我在没有翻译经验的情况下建议你申请的前三家公司。
First company that I would recommend, especially if you have no experience at all, is language line solutions.我推荐的第一家公司,特别是如果你完全没有经验的话,是Language Line Solutions。
I personally work for them and this is the third biggest language service provider in the world.我个人为他们工作,这是世界上第三大语言服务提供商。
And when I first applied,当我第一次申请时。
I had no experience in translation at all, other than the unofficial translations that I've been我完全没有翻译经验,除了我一直在做的非官方翻译。
doing for my family and friends.为我的家人和朋友做的。
I get paid 14 pounds and我得到14英镑的报酬。
40 pence per hour and每小时40便士。
I've been working under them for the last two years.过去两年我一直在他们手下工作。
Also, I'll put the links of these companies in the description box of this video,另外,我会把这些公司的链接放在这个视频的描述框里。
so if you want to see所以如果你想看
that, you can check that out.那个,你可以去看看。
Second company that you can have.你可以拥有的第二家公司。
Life 4 is language empire.生活4是语言帝国。
This is a company that does face-to-face translation services, so it's not over the phone.这是一家提供面对面翻译服务的公司,所以不是通过电话进行的。
But this company is the easiest one to get into in my opinion because但在我看来,这家公司是最容易进入的。
both myself and my friend, who had我和我的朋友,他曾经
no experience in translating at all, applied to this place and got the job offer.完全没有翻译经验,申请了这家公司并得到了工作机会。
So it's definitely worth a try.所以这绝对值得一试。
As this company does face-to-face translations,由于这家公司做面对面翻译。
you'd need to travel to the place that your translation service is required, but the你需要前往需要翻译服务的地点,但是
travel costs are paid for.差旅费是报销的。
The hourly rate for this is 14 pounds, so 40 pounds lower than the previous company.这的时薪是14英镑,比之前的公司低了40英镑。
Also, when I researched them, the employee reviews and employee satisfaction weren't great.另外,当我研究他们时,员工评价和员工满意度都不太好。
But I'm not sure how accurate this is because even though I got the job offer,但我不确定这有多准确,因为尽管我得到了工作邀请。
I've never actually worked for我实际上从未为
them as I prefer working from home.他们工作过,因为我更喜欢在家工作。
Third company is TransPerfect.第三家公司是TransPerfect。
This is the biggest language service provider in the world.这是世界上最大的语言服务提供商。
Professional proficiency in over the phone consecutive interpretation is required.需要具备电话连续传译的专业熟练度。
So I assume they're not as big and friendly as the first company which所以我假设它们不像第一家公司那样规模大且友好,这家公司
was LanguageLine because on the LanguageLine's website是LanguageLine,因为在LanguageLine的网站上
this qualification is only preferred, not required.这个资格只是优先考虑,并非必需。
According to Glassdoor, this company also pays 1440 to their employees.根据Glassdoor的数据,这家公司还向员工支付1440美元。
There are three stages in the application process that you'll be required to pass to get the job offer.申请流程中有三个阶段你需要通过才能获得工作邀请。
First one is an obvious one uploading your CV.第一个很明显是上传你的简历。
Second one is interview and the third one is short translation test.第二个是面试,第三个是简短的翻译测试。
For the first stage which is uploading your CV,对于第一个阶段,也就是上传你的简历。
my top tip would be to look at the skills they're looking我的首要建议是看看他们正在寻找的技能
for in the job description.在工作描述中。
and add those to your CV to prove that you have those skills and并将这些添加到你的简历中,以证明你拥有这些技能。
relate those at least one of your将这些与你至少一个(经历)联系起来
This doesn't have to be a job experience.这不一定非得是工作经历。
It can be an experience you acquired from your university or from your school.它可以是你从大学或学校获得的经历。
I took a module called Fundamental Skills for Scientists.我修了一门名为《科学家基本技能》的课程。
And in that module, we had to send a CV for a specific job that they assigned us.在那门课程中,我们必须为他们分配的一个特定职位发送简历。
And I scored 100 out of 100 in that assignment.在那项作业中,我得了满分100分。
And the tip that I've just given you probably helps me a lot to get that full mark.我刚才给你的建议可能对我获得满分有很大帮助。
Second stage is the interview.第二阶段是面试。
My top tip for this would be definitely just proving them that对此,我最重要的建议就是向他们证明
you know about the importance of confidentiality of your你了解保密的重要性
customers and of your clients.你的客户和你的委托人的。
And that you're confident you won't let any confidentiality breach to happen because of a mistake that you do.并且你确信你不会因为自己犯的错误而导致任何保密信息泄露。
Because in the course that you'll be translating personal and financial information will be discussed.因为在课程中,你将翻译个人和财务信息,这些信息会被讨论。
So you need to show them that you know how to protect that所以你需要向他们展示你知道如何保护这些信息。
information and how to get rid of that信息以及如何清除这些信息。
information safely.安全地处理信息。
For example, by practicing clean desk policy and by not speaking about the conversations you translated to anyone,例如,通过实行整洁桌面政策,以及不向任何人谈论你翻译过的对话。
because confidentiality breaches因为保密性违规
cost millions of dollars to these companies.给这些公司造成了数百万美元的损失。
And to refresh your knowledge on confidentiality, you need to complete a yearly compliance training on their learning portal.为了更新你对保密性的知识,你需要在他们的学习门户上完成年度合规培训。
Third stage is the short translation test.第三阶段是简短翻译测试。
If you've come to this state, well done.如果你已经达到了这个阶段,做得好。
This is the easiest stage to pass in my opinion because here,在我看来,这是最容易通过的阶段,因为在这里。
they only test if you actually speak the language他们只测试你是否真的会说这种语言
that you claim to do.你声称会说的那种语言。
Before this test, they send you a list of around 300 key terms that could come up during your assessment.在这次测试之前,他们会给你一份大约300个关键术语的列表,这些术语可能会在评估中出现。
These are mostly medical and financial terms.这些大多是医学术语和金融术语。
So my top tip would be for you to familiarize yourself with those terms.所以我的首要建议是让你熟悉这些术语。
So that's basically it.基本上就是这样。
I hope this was useful.我希望这很有用。
Consider subscribing and I'll see you in the next one.考虑订阅一下,我们下期见。