ProZ.com Plus membership comes with all the benefits members have come to know over the past nineteen years, plus a lot of new tools and opportunities designed with the serious freelance language professional in mind. This series takes a look at these additional benefits, one at a time.
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The future looks bright for a certain type of translator, interpreter, or anyone providing language services.
These are the language professionals who are able to adapt to the changes that affect us all in general, and the changes that affect how things work in the industry. Some of these changes are related to globalization, some are tech-based, others have to do with how we have come to expect a service to be delivered, in terms of time, cost, and quality, and very often without even having met the person or persons providing the service.
Tomorrow's translator and interpreter is continually improving. They are staying up to date on what's new, both good and bad. They are able to accurately inform their clients about what's new, what the best solution might be, and deliver a service that really meets those clients' needs. They are learning and incorporating the technology, processes, and tools that allow them to do this.
That brings us to today's topic: watching videos on the internet.
Wait! Did you just open a tab and go to YouTube to watch cats and dogs doing funny things?
1. You did the right thing,
2. Stick with me a bit, because I was talking about something else.
Call it what you want-- professional development, continuing education, training, "what every professional should be doing"-- tomorrow's translator and interpreter is taking in new information about all different aspects of the business, and putting it to work for them, in order to stay on top of their game.
ProZ.com has been offering language professional training for more than ten years, and the ProZ.com community is full of experts on all different facets of the business. This expertise and knowledge has been collected in the new Plus subscriber video library. If you want to learn more about translation software, or the art of translation or interpreting, or negotiating with clients, or finding new clients, or a particular field within translation and interpreting, the video library is a good place to start. It's free with your ProZ.com Plus subscription, and you can watch what you want when you want, on your computer, tablet, or mobile phone.
At the moment, the video library contains over 1,000 hours of content, in various languages. If you were to pay for access to all of that content separately, it would run you around 20,000 USD, which, even if you have that kind of money just burning a hole in your pocket, you're going to want to spend it on something else, right? Granted, not every course in the library will be of interest or applicable to you, as tends to happen with most libraries. But it could be a very valuable professional resource to have in your set of tools, and again, it's free with your Plus subscription. And as the number of Plus subscribers grows, so grows that library of knowledge.
If you have not had a look yet, I encourage you to check it out, at http://videos.proz.com/
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If you already have a Plus subscription, be sure to refer to your Plus subscriber checklist to see what you can do to get the most out of your investment.
If you are still considering membership at ProZ.com, this is the full list of membership benefits.
If you have questions or need help, feel free to drop me a line.
