Alpha

English to Korean Translator

Alpha

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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About the role

  • Translate a variety of text types and subject matters
  • Transcreation
  • Review and post-edit machine-produced translations
  • Conduct terminology research
  • Create and maintain translation memories and termbases
  • Create and maintain style guides
  • Participate in occasional meetings with client contacts
  • Make occasional visits to clients for product demos or briefings

Requirements

  • Translators must master Korean at mother-tongue level
  • Excellent grammar and fluent writing style
  • Translation qualification and minimum of three years’ experience
  • Willingness to learn new things and to go the extra mile
  • Ability to review work of others, edit and provide feedback
  • Ability to work under pressure without impacting quality
  • Good time management and versatility
  • Professional approach and commitment to quality
  • Able to work autonomously as well as within a team
  • Good eye for detail and ability to pay attention to multiple references
  • Cultural awareness
  • Client orientated and a team player
  • Familiar with MemoQ, Trados, Smartling, Memsource and other CATs (optional)
  • Ability to translate/transcreate marketing-type messages (optional)
  • Experience translating for the ecommerce and finance sector (optional)
  • Subtitling videos (optional)
Benefits
  • Alpha has been at the forefront of the translation, localization and now globalization industries since 1987, and is now a global top-ten localization provider.
  • We’ve built an in-house production model for the world’s most demanding companies.
  • Alpha is a warm, lively and welcoming firm with over 30 nationalities represented in its 18 offices.
  • Every individual adds their own personality to our culture, and allows us to paint a bright, vivid and multi-faceted picture of the world, in micro, in each place.
  • In the end, being part of the team is about more than work. We service an impressive range of internationally known clients in various sectors.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
translationtranscreationpost-editingterminology researchtranslation memory maintenancetermbase maintenancestyle guide creationsubtitling
Soft skills
excellent grammarfluent writing stylewillingness to learnability to review worktime managementversatilityprofessional approachcommitment to qualityattention to detailcultural awareness
Certifications
translation qualification