Specializing: a ticket to the high end of the profession?: recommended reading ... though I think I would have preferred Specialisation: a ticket to the high end of the profession?
By David Jemielity. Published on 18 August 2014.
Also the one-day symposium “Future-proofing the translation profession” co-sponsored by the ITI, the European Commission and the Chartered Institute of Linguists. To see what the speakers and panelists had to say, click here.
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