Language-based job titles
One of the reasons I use LinkedIn is to find out about the emerging trends and developments in the language industry. There are an awful lot more different kinds of language-based jobs in the industry than “translator” or “interpreter”. I am collating a list of them here:
- Community interpreter
- Court interpreter
- Data scientist for machine translation
- Interpreter
- Language data manager
- Language technologist
- Lawyer-linguist
- Legal translator
- Linguistic editor
- Localization manager
- Machine translation post editor
- Proof-reader
- (Translation) Project manager
- Sensitivity reader
- Subtitler
- Terminologist
- Translation data engineer
- Translator