Why Hire a Translation Agency

By Tom Bombidier


Should your company hire a professional translation agency to take care of new documents, advertisements and incoming translations when a language other than the one you speak is required? You may be tempted to opt for a cheaper option such as hiring a college student or asking a bilingual friend. Top corporations in the country will tell you there is no replacement for a professional translation agency; in fact, they list five major reasons: Consistency, reliability, reduced stress, accuracy and integrity.

Accuracy is the first advantage to hiring a professional translation service. Yes, that college student working for his next meal may speak the language, but he's not a professional and doesn't have years of experience translating professional documents. A professional translator normally has years of experience speaking, reading, and writing industry-specific lingo in their languages. A non-professional simply can't provide the accuracy that is demanded of professional or legal documents. Inaccuracies are bad news for sales ads and website content as well.

You can also reduce stress for yourself and your employees when you bring in a professional translating agency. You do not have to rely on your bilingual employees to take on your growing load of translation duties, and you do not have to worry about their ability to do those duties with accuracy and professionalism.

Professional translators offer another important advantage in business, which is certifiable integrity. Do you ever deal with legal or governmental documents? These are processed by specific agencies and they are not going to accept the work of your friend or a neighbor's college kid home on break. Certifiable integrity is definitely important, particularly if you are trying to grow your business. Employ professionals for each and every translation project your business faces.

Yet another advantage you have with a professional translation service is reliability. Do you want to wait for the college student to get over a weekend of partying before translating your important papers? Your neighbor may be a great help to you on many occasions but can you really depend on the quality or timeliness? Students, friends and neighbors have other obligations that may take precedence over your documents! When you work with a professional agency, you will have access to well trained professionals who are highly educated and will prioritize your documents. Moreover, once you have established a relationship you will never have to search out a new translator for future projects.

Without employing a professional agency, you will have trouble obtaining consistency for all of your translation projects. Once you find a good translation service and work with them on a regular basis, they will know what you expect of the service and work diligently to give your company exactly what it needs. Keep in mind the translation service will have a vested interest in pushing their translators to provide you with accurate, high quality work of superior integrity in order to keep your repeat business.

You can save a bit on the budget by cutting corners with translation services, but what is the risk to your business? Do you see why this type of service is considered very important to large corporations? This can be difficult for smaller businesses, however if you will look around you can find agencies who cater to the smaller company and lower budget. In addition, you will have many if not all of the perks described above for a lower cost. You want to find a translation service that can provide you the level of service you need at a price you can afford. One thing that will help in that endeavor is offering the translation agency consistent business.




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