No, I’m not suddenly branching out into a music career.
I’m talking about the importance of acoustics when choosing a space to host EWC meetings.
Until I started interpreting regularly at EWCs, I didn’t realise the task of hosting these meetings.
Organisation is vital when you are involved in EWCs.
In my last post, I talked about the benefits of having regular interpreters for each language combination.
I’ve been interpreting at European Works Councils for the best part of a decade.
In case you’re not aware, the European Works Council (EWC) is a cross border employees’ representation body for social dialogue and communication with management in multination companies.
A standard part of my preparations for jobs is deciding whether a pre-session meeting is necessary.
Often it isn’t, but sometimes, it’s key to the success of the assignment.
At face value, that’s quite a demoralising sentence, but seen in context, it was a compliment.
At a recent assignment, I was interpreting for the management team of an investment business.
We all know how temporary news is – in fact, in today’s social media society, news is even more transient than ever.
At OSLS we translate a lot of press releases. The one thing that my communications clients value over anything else is promptness. A 24 hour turnaround is vital in our whirlwind world.
Did you know that videos are not interpreted at events, unless they’re supplied in advance? This is one of those across-the-board “rules” in the interpreting industry.