- Professional Development Event: Beyond the Basics of Freelancing, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Presenter: Corinne McKayDescription: Now that you’ve launched your freelance business, are you thriving or just surviving?
In this interactive session, we’ll discuss practical strategies for doing a “good to great” makeover on your freelance translation practice. After presenting some tools for fine-tuning your basic marketing materials, we’ll talk about how to make optimal use of social networking tools (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) to grow your name recognition, and how to tap into the translation blogosphere as a reader, commenter or writer.Drawing from the presenter’s experience working with both agencies and direct clients, we’ll discuss strategies for increasing your earning power with both types of clients and how to pre-screen clients before you start working with them. In addition, we’ll look at some strategies for thriving in a down economy, improving your writing and editing skills and expanding your range of services to diversify your income base.
Location: Conference room L-200 of the College Hill Library, 3705 W. 112th. Ave., Westminster. This is the *upstairs* conference room where Cris Silva’s presentation was, not the big meeting room downstairs.
Cost: $10 for CTA members, $15 for non-members, please bring a check made out to CTA or exact change in cash.
- Interpreter Training Workshop: Summer Interpreting Workshop Western Colorado State College Gunnison, Colorado,
June 29 – July 3, 2009
This event is not sponsored by the CTA, but may be of interest to our members.Are you ready to improve your Spanish-English/English-Spanish interpreting skills? Take advantage of this great training opportunity!
This workshop is aimed at interpreters who have already passed the written federal exam or who are state court certified.Instructors Melinda Gonzalez-Hibner and Tony Rosado are federally certified court interpreters.
Cost: $450 for CAPI members, $475 for non-members.
Please register by June 1. For complete class information and to register online today, visit the Western State college Extended Studies site by clicking here and scroll down to CAPI Court Interpreter Training.
- Interactive Training for Professional Interpreters, Course Duration:
4 Saturdays in June (June 6, 13, 20, 27) – 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
This event is not sponsored by the CTA, but may be of interest to our members.As announced at the last CAPI meeting, Cesco Linguistic Services is sponsoring the first Interactive Training for Professional Interpreters.This effort has been in the works for a while and it is finally coming to fruition. It began thanks to few of you who shared with me the desire of an affordable training program during non working business hours so that no work was missed in this tough economy.And here we are….We are fortunate to have hired Rosabelle Rice as our trainer and author of this training course. Please read her biography in the Course Outline to get to know more about her.Corey Ciocchetti, Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies will be our Guest Speaker on the second day of our course. His speeches on Ethics and Integrity are a true inspiration and very motivating. They will positively impact the way we think and how we work as professionals. It’s an experience not to miss!
Course Outline: This interactive course will provide you with useful and practical tactics that you will be able to apply in your day-by-day profession with specific insights on the following areas:
• Ethical Standards
• Modes of interpreting
• Cultural Awareness and Professional Settings
• Creation of glossary for Medical and Legal fields
• Practical Exercises and Scenarios / Role Play
• ResourcesIf you are interested in attending, please fax your signed application to 720.293.9086. Your application will be complete upon receipt of payment.
Location: Mi Casa, 360 Acoma Street, Denver, CO 80223
Telephone: 303.539.5597Cost: $130.00
Attendance is limited and seats are filling up quickly. Reserve your spot today! Personal check or PayPal accepted. If paying via PayPal please send payment to Giovanna.
Please click here to download a pdf with the course description and the application form.
