Toss-up...
Jan. 6th, 2011 09:03 amOne of the cute tricks some agencies pull with translator résumés is to include them with proposals in order to show the agency's depth of experience, etc. Often, they'll even ask the translators to write short "test" translations that are also appended to the proposal.
The trick involves never actually using such translators in the event the job is landed, because there's always someone out there willing to work for a penny-and-a-half a word. And for some reason—very likely the fact that the people who pay for the work are far removed from those who actually have to use the product of the work and thereby don't really care about product quality as long as costs are contained—agencies that pull this kind of fast one fail to go out of business as often as not.
The thought crossed my mind, as I went through the exercise of updating my own résumé, of adding a line to the footer, to the effect of "This resume may not be used to solicit work without the express consent of [me] or [my company]," but in the time it has taken to tap my way this far, it occurs to me that I'd just be stroking my ego by doing so. Worse, there is the potential of ticking off good clients while not eliciting any response at all from the tricksters (especially when they solicit work using my résumé!).
Cheers...
The trick involves never actually using such translators in the event the job is landed, because there's always someone out there willing to work for a penny-and-a-half a word. And for some reason—very likely the fact that the people who pay for the work are far removed from those who actually have to use the product of the work and thereby don't really care about product quality as long as costs are contained—agencies that pull this kind of fast one fail to go out of business as often as not.
The thought crossed my mind, as I went through the exercise of updating my own résumé, of adding a line to the footer, to the effect of "This resume may not be used to solicit work without the express consent of [me] or [my company]," but in the time it has taken to tap my way this far, it occurs to me that I'd just be stroking my ego by doing so. Worse, there is the potential of ticking off good clients while not eliciting any response at all from the tricksters (especially when they solicit work using my résumé!).
Cheers...