Make a Career with Online Translator Jobs  

Do you speak a second language and frequently you help your friends and family with translations? If your answer is yes, you might consider working as an Online Translator. Do you like the idea? Excellent! Stay where you are because next, I’ll tell you how to apply for Online Translator Jobs, even if you do not have experience 😉 

What options do I have to find Online Translator Jobs?

Your first option is to work as a Freelance Translator. This option is better for those ones who are not professional translators or don’t have a certification but they speak the language because is their native language or grew up with it as a second language. For example, in my case, I speak English which I learned in high school and I’ve perfected after marrying an American. But due to I don’t have any training in translations, I only feel comfortable doing translations into my native language which is Spanish.

Another way is through companies looking for translators to work on their projects. But you will not be a company employee rather you will work as an independent contractor. To apply for these companies, you will have to gather certain requirements like approving a test. But do not worry, if you speak fluently your mother tongue and more than fair the second language then you will not have problems being accepted as a translator.

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Online Translator Jobs
Where to Apply

1. Websites for Freelance Translators

There are two companies which are very popular and free to register, I mean to Upwork and Freelancer.

Registering at any of these two sites is not complicated. As I mentioned above, there’s no fee for signing up, and you don’t need to pass any tests to be accepted. All you have to do is fill out a form with your personal information, skills and work experience, as well as the job you are looking for.

For this case, you will specify “looking for translation jobs” and what kind of translation projects you can do, for example, translations from English to Spanish and Spanish to English. Or Chinese to English and vice-versa. Another data you’ll mention on the form is your hourly rate. So, who searches for a translation job could see your rate.  

Wondering how these sites work? Let me explain it to you. The site shows your profile to people who are looking for different services like the one you are offering “translation jobs,” at the same time, you receive notifications with offer jobs that match your profile. Once you find an offer that suits you, apply for it if the person or company is interested, they contact you.

Freelancer and Upwork do not charge you for finding you a job, but they charge you a commission for each job you perform. Which is fair, do not you think?

One more thing that you want to know, the payment is through PayPal. So if you don’t have a PayPal account yet, it’s time to create one.  

2.- Companies that hire you as a Freelance Contractor

 

Unbabel

This company offers translation services to companies through artificial intelligence and human working together. Unbabel provides quality translation services to companies looking to reach more customers having Multilingual websites and apps.

Some of the companies that are using Unbabel’Apps and Unbabel API are Oculus, Pinterest, bit4coin, among others. Can you imagine that you could contribute to improving the customer service of large enterprises with your bilingual knowledge? Cool, right?

They also offer translations for blogs, articles, email marketing, products listing, audio transcriptions, and video subtitles.

If you are interested, you can apply on their website. The company accepts people without experience as long you pass the evaluation process. After the evaluation, they score your skills and performance which determine your hourly rate and which customer task you have access to.  

Guess what? They pay Via PayPal or Skrill.

Gengo

This is another company offering different types of translations to its clients in many languages where professionals and beginners for this job are welcome.

If you want to try this site, all you have to do is create a free account and take your two-part test, but do not worry as they give you a guide to prepare. And this’s it, once approved you will be able to see all the translation projects available. One more thing, about the payment method they do it via PayPal or Payoneer.

 

Well, this is all I have for today, what do you think? Do you like the idea of working as an Online translator? Please leave me a comment; I am always happy to hear from you. 

 

Looking for other options where to use your translation skills? Read my post on how to teach English online or any other language for an extra income.