In-house posts available at Amazon Europe

Amazon in Luxembourg are advertising a number of in-house posts in translation and editing.

The contracts are fixed-term for one year, and the offered salary is €36,000 gross. Amazon are looking for native speakers of English (DE-EN), French, German, Italian and Spanish. Requirements and language combinations for each position vary slightly.

in-house positions

I've seen a few interesting-looking jobs advertised round recently, mostly due to Uwe Muegge, who apparently never sleeps... :) See also retweets at http://twitter.com/#!/MATSnews.

In order of increasing distance from Portsmouth:

There's a company in Buckinghamshire looking for a biochemistry graduate with excellent German and native English for an in-house job with full training given.

LTC in Kingston-on-Thames is looking for a German to English translator for a full-time permanent in-house position. A company in London is looking for a French native speaker translating from English or German. Xerox in Welwyn Garden City are also looking for a French native speaker for a 12-month temporary contract.

Amazon's Seller Help and Education are hiring a project manager to look after localization and translation, based in Cork. Also in Ireland, Google is looking for a localization product team lead in Dublin.

SAP are hiring an English to German translator for a temporary full-time position in their Finance and Insurance department in Walldorf, Germany. Transline in Reutlingen, Germany, are hiring a German to English technical translator.

Amazon.eu in Luxembourg are also hiring in-house translators, native speakers of French, English or German, to contribute to the expansion of product selection on their European websites. Appointed candidates will be responsible for: 

    * Download of product detail page information from internal Amazon systems
    * Use of CAT tools to generate translation
    * Translate according to specific guidelines to make it in-line with Amazon's internal standards for product detail pages
    * Upload product content using internal Amazon tools
    * Work in close contact with country-specific product departments
    * Contribute to the overall efficiency of the translation process with suggestions for improvement
    * Take ownership of specific tasks within the translation team

[Syntactic apologies; I spent a few minutes trying to design a main clause that could govern all those bullet points but had to give up - Ed.]. 

It's a 1-year contract with a possibility of extension based on performance. See all Amazon job openings on http://amazon.co.uk/careers. Please indicate the language pairs you are able to provide translation for (source / target language).

Qualifications:

    * Native speaker in at least one of the following languages: French, English, or German
    * Translation degree or at least 2 years of experience in the translation field
    * Strong writing and editorial skills
    * Ability to work under time pressure
    * Goal oriented and able to meet performance metrics for output and quality
    * Strong focus on details, accurate
    * Professional attitude, enhanced team spirit 

People who are interested in shoes will have a competitive edge [only partly joking here - Ed.].

Blizzard Entertaiment in France are hiring an English to Castilian Spanish games localiser. No mention of shoes here but a passion for heroic fantasy is a plus. Blizzard Entertainment also have an interesting-looking internship programme though there is no explicit mention of translation/localisation.

Amazon are hiring a technical writer for the Kindle team in Seattle. 

Twitter are hiring a 'community manager' based in San Francisco to work with their volunteer translators. 

A couple of jobs in Japan for Japanese to English translators and proofreaders here (part-time post) and here.

As always, no recommendation is made in respect of any of these companies, which aren't personally known to me (except Twitter. And Amazon I suppose. And, er, Google...). Good luck to any readers who apply!

in-house translation/interpreting position (EN-DE), Illinois

I have just seen a job advertisement for an in-house translator and interpreter at Lions' Club International in Illinois which may interest some of our readers.

jobs with Spanish and German

For those of you working with German, a quick reminder that there are job listings on the website of the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer; click on 'Aktuelles').

Posts are sometimes advertised on the websites of the ITI and the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

In case it may be of interest, here's a job listing for an in-house translator with Spanish and English based in Chicago, Illinois. (The advertisement is oddly unspecific about whether they are looking for a Spanish or an English native speaker.)

in-house translation posts

In-house translation jobs advertised here and here.

On working as an in-house translator see this post on the Prospects website. 

The company EV translations seems to be advertising in-house posts, freelance posts and internships for French, English and German native speakers at their offices in Germany, Nottingham and Atlanta.

job opportunities at thebigword

Some of you may be interested in in-house employment opportunities at thebigword, a large and growing translation service provider. More details of freelance opportunities with the company here.

job DE-EN for Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

Deutsche Bank are advertising an in-house position in Frankfurt for a German-English translator. It looks like a very good opportunity for a more experienced translator with some background in the industry.

jobs with German and a web link

As if more proof were needed of the usefulness of German in the translation job market, I see that the BdÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) has a page on their site listing translation jobs from and into German (look under 'Aktuelles'). For our Canadian students, Alpha Translations in Canada has a number of jobs advertised, also with German.
And I came across a nice translator's website with good-looking glossaries on legal and administrative topics for English and German, which may be of interest.

EU competitions for translators and interpreters

I hear the EU competition for translators will be open for registration at the EPSO website at www.eu-careers.eu from 13 July to 12 August. According to the site, there will be competitions for translators into Danish, German, English, French and Slovenian, and for interpreters into Bulgarian, English, Dutch, Romanian and Slovenian.

While you are waiting for registration to open there are a couple of resources you might find helpful. Charles, a translator at the DGT, has a Facebook page where he answers questions from potential applicants for translation posts with the EU institutions - see the Discussions board. And sample texts in all languages for the translation competitions can be found here.

Good luck to any readers of this blog who apply! :)

In-house translation jobs, IT-EN, EN-DE

Hi guys,
A couple of good-looking in-house translation posts advertised in the Guardian recently. Previous experience required.

In-house job opportunity for French native speaker

Hi all,
This advertisement may be of interest to French native speakers out there. A two-year fixed-term in-house contract for a translator from English and one of: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish or Russian into French at the ITU in Geneva.