Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

interpretation agency managertotranslation agency manager

A interpretation agency manager already meets 52% of what the translation agency manager role asks for. The move turns on 13 required skills not yet in the profile.

From interpretation agency manager
52%
Overlap1
To translation agency manager
23 Skills carried over
13 Required, not held
57.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

52%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

57.2/ 100

1 Share of the translation agency manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the interpretation agency manager profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A translation agency manager role treats 18 of its required skills as things a interpretation agency manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply grammar and spelling rules
  • assess quality of services
  • assume responsibility for the management of a business
  • build business relationships
  • customer relationship management
  • develop a translation strategy

What stands in the way is 13 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 23 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A translation agency manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a interpretation agency manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held perform sworn translations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held follow an ethical code of conduct for translation activities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held develop a translation strategy information skills
  • already held unseen translation arts and humanities
  • already held assess quality of services information skills
  • already held preserve original text communication, collaboration and creativity

All 23 carried skills, including the 18 the translation agency manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 28 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 8 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held comprehend the material to be translated required
  • required, not held negotiate settlements required
  • required, not held review translation works required
  • required, not held translate different types of texts required
  • required, not held negotiate service with providers required
  • required, not held proofread text required
  • required, not held provide written content required
  • required, not held use consulting techniques required
  • optional, not held create subtitles optional
  • optional, not held improve translated texts optional
  • optional, not held adapt text culturally optional
  • optional, not held analyse text before translation optional
  • optional, not held coach employees optional
02 information skills 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held consult information sources required
  • required, not held maintain updated professional knowledge required
  • optional, not held identify new words optional
  • optional, not held conduct scholarly research optional
  • optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
  • optional, not held develop technical glossaries optional
03 business, administration and law 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held quality standards required
  • optional, not held transcreation optional
04 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required
  • required, not held office software required
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held follow translation quality standards required
06 arts and humanities 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held court interpreting optional
  • optional, not held musical genres optional
  • optional, not held semantics optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a translation agency manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 23 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply grammar and spelling rules skill
  • already held assess quality of services skill
  • already held assume responsibility for the management of a business skill
  • already held build business relationships skill
  • already held customer relationship management knowledge
  • already held develop a translation strategy skill
  • already held follow an ethical code of conduct for translation activities skill
  • already held grammar knowledge
  • already held lead a team skill
  • already held liaise with colleagues skill
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held master language rules skill
  • already held observe confidentiality skill
  • already held preserve original text skill
  • already held project management knowledge
  • already held speak different languages skill
  • already held spelling knowledge
  • already held write work-related reports skill
  • already held linguistics knowledge
  • already held perform sworn translations skill
  • already held technical terminology knowledge
  • already held translate language concepts skill
  • already held unseen translation knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held postediting optional
08 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use computer-aided translation optional
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held create subtitles optional
  • optional, not held identify new words optional
  • optional, not held improve translated texts optional
  • optional, not held postediting optional
  • optional, not held transcreation optional
  • optional, not held adapt text culturally optional
  • optional, not held analyse text before translation optional
  • optional, not held coach employees optional
  • optional, not held conduct scholarly research optional
  • optional, not held court interpreting optional
  • optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
  • optional, not held develop technical glossaries optional
  • optional, not held musical genres optional
  • optional, not held semantics optional
  • optional, not held use computer-aided translation optional
19 held skills the translation agency manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role chuchotage interpreting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role interpret spoken language between two parties skill
  • not needed by the target role interpreting modes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role liaise with financiers skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with government officials skill
  • not needed by the target role manage a good diction skill
  • not needed by the target role manage office facility systems skill
  • not needed by the target role motivate employees skill
  • not needed by the target role perform bilateral interpretation skill
  • not needed by the target role perform sight translation skill
  • not needed by the target role phonetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role preserve meaning of original speech skill
  • not needed by the target role provide advocacy interpreting services skill
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role show intercultural awareness skill
  • not needed by the target role tape transcription knowledge
  • not needed by the target role translate spoken language consecutively skill
  • not needed by the target role translate spoken language simultaneously skill
  • not needed by the target role write research proposals skill
7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held office software required
  • required, not held quality standards required
  • optional, not held postediting optional
  • optional, not held transcreation optional
  • optional, not held court interpreting optional
  • optional, not held musical genres optional
  • optional, not held semantics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from interpretation agency manager

Full index of moves from interpretation agency manager

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.