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Translation skills required by Master’s graduates for employment: Which are needed, which are not?
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Yu Hao School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, , Australia

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Anthony Pym School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, , Australia

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Pages:
158–175
Online Publication Date:
16 Nov 2021
Publication Date:
16 Nov 2021
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2021.00012
Keywords:
translator training; employability; translation skills; translation competence
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Abstract

There is ongoing debate about which skills translation students require for employment. Numerous “bridge the gap” studies draw on translation professionals in order to list the skills that graduates should have acquired. However, many of the available surveys indicate, with some regularity, that only a minority of graduates from Master’s programs in translation actually find stable employment in the translation industry. Here we report on a survey of graduates from the University of Melbourne and the skills that they say they require once in employment. The graduates who are employed in the translation industry prioritize skills that are significantly different from those prioritized by graduates employed in other sectors. This raises an underlying question of whether we are training for an industry or for society.

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  • Anthony PYM (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, University of Melbourne, Australia)
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