The ATA Mentoring Experience
Listen to mentors describe their experience taking part in ATA’s Mentoring Program. Mentors volunteer to help mentees but, in return, they gain new perspectives and appreciation for their translation and interpreting careers.
Read MoreBecoming a Mentor: Giving Back and Leveling Up
Mentoring someone isn’t just about sharing wisdom, passing along expertise, or supporting the development of (future) colleagues. Mentoring is also expected to benefit the mentor. Whether you’re working with a student, a new professional, or a colleague, the interactions you have as a mentor will lead you to reflect more critically and deeply on your professional practice.
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Starting Out in Translation? Find a Mentor!
This post originally appeared on sciword and it is republished with permission. I was reading one of Kevin Lossner’s blog posts from 2010, titled…
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Mentoring and Beyond: Business support by and for peers within ATA
The American Translators Association (ATA) set up its current mentoring program in 2011, and since then an estimated 240 mentor/mentee pairs have worked together…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Mentoring
Photo Credit: Pexels This post was originally published on the Ben Translates blog. It is reposted with permission from the author. This week, I…
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Tapping into the Expertise I Needed: My Experience as an ATA Mentee
Have you ever wondered what the ATA Mentoring Program entails, who joins, and what they get out of the experience? With the application deadline…
Read MoreThe Mentor’s Bounty: How Mentoring Enriches both Mentor and Mentee
During the 59th ATA Conference in New Orleans, a colleague asked me, “What was the motivation that drove a group of translators to create…
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How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA: The Mentoring Program
In January 2015 I joined the American Translators Association for the first time and was ready to give it my all. When I logged…
Read MoreNeed advice or want to share your wisdom? Join the ATA Mentoring Program!
The Mentoring Program is an ATA membership benefit. Any ATA member can apply to become a mentee; this is a valuable privilege many members…
Read MoreThe ATA Mentoring Program through the eyes of a mentor-mentee pair
With the deadline to apply for the ATA Mentoring Program for 2015 fast approaching this week—March 7, to be more precise—we thought this would…
Read MoreFrom ATA’s Mentoring Committee: How to Be a Happy and Prosperous Translator or Interpreter
By Eric Chiang ATA’s Mentoring Program has had two lives so far. Its first life began as the brainchild of then ATA Board member…
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