Document translator
| Highest | $3,200 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 0–1 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4-year bachelor, work often during study |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
What does the day look like?
You work at a desk with paper on screen: you read contracts, diplomas, powers of attorney, bank statements and civil-status certificates, check terms against past translations and client glossaries, translate in SDL Trados Studio, memoQ, Phrase TMS, XTM Cloud or Smartcat, edit your draft against the source, run spelling and consistency checks, rebuild stamps and seals in Adobe Acrobat to mirror the source layout, and deliver a PDF with a signed statement of accuracy. ABBYY FineReader handles scanned PDFs. The elegant sentence-switching you picture is a small part of the clock time; most of it goes to term research, file handling, revision, email with bureaus and clients, and rework after reviewer queries.
In a bureau you work daytime office hours with deadline peaks. As a freelancer you work irregular hours, paid per word or per page, with rush jobs in evenings and weekends. Night and on-call patterns belong to live interpreting, not to this written role, except when a filing deadline forces overnight delivery.
Where does this lead?
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