In our personal lives, these circumstances might relate to good relationships, holidays and birthdays, trips, etc. But what about our business lives? What gives us energy in the workplace, especially when we need it?

Leadership might get energized by smooth operations. By that, we mean things like business relationships and teamwork. For example, if team members take accountability, act to make things happen, and double check operations to ensure projects go smoothly, that will surely bring in a lot of momentum which makes everyone feel surrounded by growth and partnership. Equally important is when clients show understanding and provide positive feedback, which truly creates a very enjoyable working environment and energizes everyone as a team.

Management might like getting their hands on new projects. Bidding on a request for proposal and working on something brand new could get them energized for making new connections and new success stories. For example, even management of long-term assignments can be exciting if challenges and successes feel new.

As for others, energy at work can come from appreciation. Not just appreciation for the work they perform, but also for the work others perform. Be they coworkers, clients, vendors, or anyone, giving and receiving thanks energizes employees to do a good job for all those involved.

What gives you energy in the workplace? Let us know in the comments of this post, and we wish you a good day!

The majority of students told us that they shared our values for bridging the language gap between diverse communities and industries. Indeed, the team at Monterey Language Services feels very grateful to have the opportunity to serve people and society by providing translation and interpretation services every day at work.

Students’ professional experience consisted of internships and volunteer work ranging from medical interpretation in hospitals to technical translation on important topics such as oncology, nuclear energy, manufacturing, and IT.

Students had all sorts of questions about internships and the possibilities for work at regional and international levels that Monterey Language Services offers. Many of them had diligently done research and knew about our upcoming project management and interpretation vacancies. They were impressed by the numerous opportunities offered by our company and admired our community involvement. After a very concentrated exchange of ideas, they left our booth feeling very hopeful in the future of the translation industry and our company’s role in it.

Monterey Language Services is committed to bridging the world’s languages by providing quality, professional and efficient translation & interpretation services in over 175 languages. Please feel free to request a quote from us.

Monterey Language Services is offering a full-time project management position, to manage translation and interpretation projects in a large number of languages.

We are looking for a MATURE, ENERGETIC, SELF-MOTIVATED, AND RESPONSIBLE person with the following experience/requirements:

• At least one year of experience handling multilingual projects in the TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION business
• Has a great sense of responsibility and passion about working as Project Manager
• Able to cooperate with others as well as work independently
• Good English communication skills – both written and verbal
• Experience using SDL Trados or similar as a Project Manager
• Experience using interpreter scheduling software is welcomed
• Likes working with technology and tools

If you are interested, please email your COVER LETTER, Resume and recent salary history to Mei-Ling Chen, Director of Translation, at mei-ling@montereylanguages.com

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Translation is not an easy task. It requires knowledge, experience, and cultural awareness. Machines can greatly assist humans in the process of translation, but they are still far from being able to autonomously provide accurate translations that reflect cultural differences and take into account the context of a discourse. This underscores the need to ensure that only the best translators are selected for a particular assignment, based on their experience, subject expertise, and native fluency. When the selection process is not properly carried out, anything can happen. Some examples are illustrated by this lively video we found on You Tube.

Today, we found an interesting blog item about the concept of cloud-enabled printers that would enable any device located anyplace to print to a printer anywhere in the world:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_wants_you_to_print_from_the_cloud.php

This is an example of the spirit of innovation that underlies our work.

Currently, we upload files to our online system and customers need to download them in order to print.  With cloud-enabled printers, however, in the future our clients will be able to save precious time by printing files directly.

Monterey Language Services will continue to monitor future trends on translation quality, translation processes, project management, multilingual technology, content management systems, e-commerce, and cloud operations.  We invite you to follow us on our blog.