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Google yourself. 
Just hear me out. What kind of results do you get? 
 
Luckily, when I Google myself I’m the first person that pops up, including my Instagram channel, LinkedIn, and personal website. This is because I’ve worked on building my personal brand and online persona for quite some time now. 
 
The last two years have showcased an undeniable need for building your professional digital presence, or as I like to call it, your brand.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! One of the continuous missions of Vendor Experience is to provide our global community a little peek behind the curtain when it comes to our valued TransPerfect freelancers, and this month, we celebrate our AAPI team members.

It’s been a pleasure to honor and get to know our linguists in and outside of the continental US that choose to work with us every day. To celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, we asked some members of the freelance team to share their advice for other freelancers, as well as cultural sights they encourage others to research or visit one day.

We are officially into a new year! To our new freelance experts, welcome. We can’t wait to watch our partnership with you develop. And to our veterans, thank you for your many years of continued collaboration! 

Taking time off is central to a person’s well-being. It can increase efficiency and output upon returning to work.

The goal of translations is access a wider audience, so it's critical to appropriately and accurately translate gender identities and consider the impact of words on the LGBTQIA+ community.

How can you get more freelance work? Here are five steps to help you maintain your current workload and get more work when you’re ready.

TransPerfect's community of freelance linguists came together in one of the most difficult years to date to provide the highest quality of translations and lingual support.

Improving the Machine Translation Post-Editing Workflow

We spent August, which is Women in Translation (WiT) Month, getting to know TransPerfect’s newest female translators, and we’re thrilled to introduce you to a few of them! If you’re interested in learning more about the origins of WiT, check out last year’s blog post: TransPerfect Celebrates Women in Translation Month 2019.

Women’s Equality Day recognizes the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. August 26th, 1920, is a day that signifies the validity of the female voice. Prior to this, only a handful of states allowed women the right to vote.

With much of the global workforce shifting to remote work in light of recent events, we polled our freelance community of linguists, most of whom have been working from home for their entire careers, for their best advice on making the transition. See what our “working from home veterans” from around the globe have to say about getting the job done in a nontraditional work environment.