Interpreters & Translators

Also called: Interpreter, Medical Interpreter, Sign Language Interpreter

Career Cluster: Education & Training
What they do:
Interpret oral or sign language, or translate written text from one language into another.
On the job, you would:
  • Follow ethical codes that protect the confidentiality of information.
  • Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally or by using hand signs, maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.
  • Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.
KNOWLEDGE

Safety and Government
  • public safety and security
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
  • foreign language
Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Business
  • customer service
  • administrative services
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Attention
  • pay attention to something without being distracted
  • do two or more things at the same time
Ideas and Logic
  • order or arrange things
  • notice when problems happen
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Self Control
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Foreign language software
  • AceTools.biz Ace Translator
  • Stormdance CatsCradle
Web platform development software
  • Extensible hypertext markup language XHTML
  • Hypertext markup language HTML
EDUCATION


bachelor's degree or master's degree
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JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are less likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $99,830.00
Median: $59,440.00
Low: $35,630.00
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