Abstract:

Today’s technological developments have influenced the translation industry and the expected services and performance from the translator as in every field. One of the environments in which we can clearly see these developments is the digital platforms in which the ads are included. The purpose of this research is to create a profile based on the characteristics of the translator currently sought in the published translator ads and thus enable the translation students to recognize the industry. For this purpose, 49 translator ads were selected on the LinkedIn platform accessed on 10 March 2023. The selected ads have been analyzed and analyzed in the framework of the categories identified by the method of textile content analysis. These categories include industry distribution, graduation, experience, language distribution and qualifications. Translator advertising sectors have been evaluated separately in other categories. The sectors that require translation include health, media, real estate, information technology, language services and localization, human resources, trade companies and education. In the ads, the translators considering the departments where they graduated, the requests were mainly addressed to which departments. It has also been studied whether the experience was taken into account for searched translators and in which language or language pairs the translator was searched for. Finally, the skills and social skills that are specific to the profession of translation have been gathered together, the characteristics expected to be possessed by modern translators, and a profile has been achieved. In light of the data obtained, although there are institutions that train translators in our country outside the language and localization sector, it has been seen that the need to be a graduate of the translation department in the advertisements is still not required, although the need for professional experience in the language and localization and the media sector is not required in other sectors. This situation shows that other sectors are more open to new graduate students and that there are more job opportunities in these sectors. Although the English is the first searched language in all sectors except the commercial companies sector, the Spanish and Arabic are searched in the media sector. In addition to professional skills in all sectors, interpersonal communication and individual development and motivation characteristics are mainly sought within the framework of social skills. While variing according to the sector, project management is among the other qualifications that are sought in MS Office programs and translation technology and social media use translators candidates.

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