Translate or interpret written, oral, or sign language text into another language for others.

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1. Follow ethical codes that protect the confidentiality of information.

2. Identify and resolve conflicts related to the meanings of words, concepts, practices, or behaviors.

3. Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally or by using hand signs, maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.

4. Proofread, edit, and revise translated materials.

5. Check translations of technical terms and terminology to ensure that they are accurate and remain consistent throughout translation revisions.

6. Read written materials, such as legal documents, scientific works, or news reports, and rewrite material into specified languages.

7. Refer to reference materials, such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks, as needed to ensure translation accuracy.

8. Compile terminology and information to be used in translations, including technical terms such as those for legal or medical material.

9. Adapt translations to students' cognitive and grade levels, collaborating with educational team members as necessary.

10. Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.

11. Check original texts or confer with authors to ensure that translations retain the content, meaning, and feeling of the original material.

Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Foreign Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Clerical - Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Education: Most of these occupations require a four - year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training: Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

The college search results are undergraduate programs associated with Interpreters and Translators. Further education may also be required to pursue this career.

The training search results include both short and long-term programs associated with Interpreters and Translators, and may be more appropriate for adult and non-traditional students. Further training may also be required to pursue this career.

In NY the average wage for this occupation was:

$30,330 for entry level workers, and $65,440 for experienced workers.

Based on the total number of annual openings and its growth rate, the employment prospects for this occupation are described as Favorable.

During 2006, there were approximately 2,970 Interpreters and Translators employed in NY.

We estimate that in 2016 there will be 3,430  employed in NY. This represents an increase of 50 job(s) each year, and a total of 70 job openings each year.

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