Monterey Language Services is offering a full-time project management position, to manage translation and interpretation projects in a large number of languages.

We are looking for a MATURE, ENERGETIC, SELF-MOTIVATED, AND RESPONSIBLE person with the following experience/requirements:

• At least one year of experience handling multilingual projects in the TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION business
• Has a great sense of responsibility and passion about working as Project Manager
• Able to cooperate with others as well as work independently
• Good English communication skills – both written and verbal
• Experience using SDL Trados or similar as a Project Manager
• Experience using interpreter scheduling software is welcomed
• Likes working with technology and tools

If you are interested, please email your COVER LETTER, Resume and recent salary history to Mei-Ling Chen, Director of Translation, at mei-ling@montereylanguages.com

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“Alright, my website’s traffic is going up!” “Hey, new customers are coming to us!” Did you hear similar voices from your competitors? How can they be so lucky?

Put yourselves in the shoes of their website’s visitors, and you will find out what they are thinking: “Cool! This website is in my native language! I can breeze effortlessly through anything in this website, even when I’m not in my home country! I will definitely visit this website again!”

When your website speaks their languages, they can browse through your website easily. They come and stay. That’s it. Better yet, they can see your website easily, even when they type the keywords in their own languages in the search box!

You can have great website traffic and new customers! We are here to help! Monterey Language Services is equipped with a strong team of experienced project managers, expert translators, quality assurance specialists, marketing professionals, and localization engineers to give you a multilingual website!

Contact us and embrace a flood of visitors to your website and welcome new customers to your company! The website localization services that we provide specifically aim to achieve the above goals.

1. Translate website content clearly and accurately
2. Translate all SEO content in order to rank high in search results
3. Maintain translation of the website to keep them up to date
4. Keep records of previous translation and reuse them

Connect and communicate with your customers who speak languages other than English! We cannot wait to hear you tell us about all the new leads that your website brings in!

To see more details about website SEO (Search Engine Optimization), please see our article on GALA (Globalization and Localization Association), a well-known association in localization industry:

http://www.gala-global.org/press-release/improving-world-economy-increases-need-e-commerce-translation

The 2015 annual conference of California Healthcare Interpreting Association (CHIA) was held here in Monterey. We were particularly glad to be part of the sponsoring bodies, as medical interpretation is one of our specialties here at Monterey Language Services.

Enjoy the video clips capturing some of the fun activities during the event. Two interpreters won the raffle prizes offered by Monterey Language Services. With the award-winning wine, they can enjoy it with their loved ones, and say to each other in Spanish “Te quiero!” and in Mandarin “我爱你！” (“I love you!”).

Language services can be as fun as the raffle! Monterey Language Services provides comprehensive, quality, professional and efficient translation & interpretation services in over 175 languages (we are also constantly adding new languages according to our customers’ needs), including:

• Medical Interpretation (in person/phone/video remote)
• Conference Interpretation (consecutive/simultaneous)
• Translation (hospital/business)
• Multimedia (subtitles/voiceover)
• Localization (website/software)
• Medical Interpreter Training & Evaluation

We guarantee that the quality is as good as the wine!  Increase your hospital’s service quality by partnering with us!

4/19 Monterey Language Services attended Evento Cultural Indigeno / Indigenous Cultural Event in Greenfield, CA. We held a free raffle. This is the exciting and silly drawing. Wait til you hear Heidi try to speak Spanish! We enjoyed the event, especially meeting people who spoke indigenous languages: Mixteco, Triqui, and Purepecha, Mum, Kiche, Zapotec, and more.

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The training will move you forward toward
the following goals:

• Meet minimum requirement to take national certification exam!
• Be part of the 46% growth in interpreting jobs in the next decade
• Help the community fulfill the need in healthcare interpreting
• Improve the quality of services in the healthcare industry

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The team here at Monterey Language Services wishes you a fabulous 2015! You deserve it!

We are so very proud and grateful that you remain our friends and continue to support us.

Happy New Year! To a year of growth for us all!

Translation Services Launches 40-hour Minimum Training
Required in the Healthcare Interpreting Industry

MONTEREY, Calif. (11/19, 2014) – Monterey Language Services (MLS) will be hosting an intensive 5 day, 40 hour training course in medical interpreting. The course will take place the week of 1/19-1/23/2015 and is open to all area bilinguals interested in pursuing jobs as medical interpreters.

Monterey Language Services first announced the 40 hour training course at its successful community service workshop last weekend, which let the public get a glimpse into the inner workings of the medical interpretation field—a field that comes with many common misconceptions.

“I was wondering if they (medical interpreters) start out as many of us, interpreting for family and friends, or if they have jobs where the employer saw a need to better train the janitor, for example, so he could fill two roles,” said one participant, “as was the case with my father in 1969.”

“Today, industry standards require medical interpreters to show proof of 40 hour training, successful assessment, and qualification,” said Mei-Ling Chen, Director of Translation at Monterey Language Services, who is also a Monterey Institute of International Studies trained interpreter.

Just because you’re bilingual doesn’t mean you’re qualified to interpret in healthcare. The era of family member “interpreters” is over. “Just being bilingual, it’s not enough. But if you have a certificate from Monterey Language Services, it’s good,” said Victor Sosa, the head of the Language Access at Natividad Medical Center, during his presentation at the workshop.

The Monterey Language Services-hosted program will provide the 40 hour minimum training required in the healthcare interpreting industry to obtain a national certification. Training will be conducted by experienced medical interpreters and trainers. Upon successfully completing the course, participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Those who pass the exit exam will also receive a certificate of competency in medical interpreting from Monterey Language Services. The course will take place 1/19/2015 – 1/23/2015, cost: $800 onsite, $750 online.

Download the workshop info and registration form here.

Registration form: http://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Flyer-Medical-Interpretation-v2.pdf

For more information, please call 831 655 3460.

Screenshot taken from the Californian’s website.

Our upcoming training seminar, Medical Interpreting as a Profession, was broadcast by the Californian, a newspaper based in Salinas, California, where the county government is located and the majority of residents are Spanish-speakers from Mexico.

This area has a strong need for medical interpretation services, so this workshop allows us to provide a much needed and valuable program for the community. Our goal is to help bilingual speakers and interpreters enter the medical interpretation field. Download the workshop info and registration form here.

Registration form: http://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Medical-Workshop-Info-and-Registration_Monterey-Language-Services_updated.pdf

Here is the news:
Translation service launches training seminars

Monterey Language Services has launched an interpreter training seminar to move area bilingual speakers into jobs in healthcare.

The seminars will begin in November and are open to all area bilingual residents interested in pursuing jobs as medical interpreters.

Since 2010, Monterey Language Services has seen a steady increase in the need for professional medical interpreters.

MLS will offer its first “Medical Interpreting as a Profession” seminar from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 15 at 2600 Garden Road, Suite 130, Monterey. The seminar is $60 attending in person, $45 online.

Information: 831-655-3460.

Other than translation, Monterey Language Services provides interpreters to hospitals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties and is the official bilingual evaluator for the County of Monterey. Our main services include interpreter training and certification as well.

MONTEREY, Calif. (Oct. 27, 2014) – Monterey Language Services (MLS) today announced its first “Medical Interpreting as a Profession” seminar, to be held on November 15, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at MLS’s offices at 2600 Garden Road, Suite 130.

The seminar, which is open to all local bilingual residents interested in pursuing jobs as medical interpreters, is intended to usher local bilingual speakers into jobs in healthcare.  If participants pass MLS’s exit exam, they will be issued a certificate that is accepted by regional hospitals.

According to the United States Department of Labor Statistics, employment of interpreters and translators is projected to grow 46 percent from 2012 to 2022.

“This means Spanish-speakers, and speakers of other languages such as Chinese and Arabic, can use their language skills to find full-time work,” said Mei-Ling Chen, owner of MLS and a graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. “Certified training is an important step to starting a career in this growing field.”

Since 2010, Monterey Language Services has seen a steady increase in the need for professional medical interpreters, as healthcare organizations have come to prefer interpreters with certification credentials over non-certified candidates. As a leader in the field of medical interpreting locally, this training allows MLS to share its experience and in-depth knowledge with potential service providers.

The cost for the November 15^th event is $60 if attending in person and $45 if attending on-line. This is the premiere of the seminar series. Please call 831-655-3460 for more information.

Download the workshop info and registration form here.

Monterey Language Services will be hosting the workshop Medical Interpreting as a Profession.

Date:   Saturday, November 15, 2014, 10 am – 1 pm

Location:
Monterey Language Services
2600 Garden Road, Suite 130
Monterey, CA 93940

Medical Interpreting as a Profession will focus on interactive discussions about the requirements for being a medical interpreter, getting certification, and the overall steps to success in medical interpretation.

The workshop is designed to give you the information and direction to take action, so you can improve your skills or advance in your profession as a medical interpreter.    

Who will be presenting: Our certified medical interpreters with experience in the field, and clients who have worked closely with medical interpreters.

Who should attend:

• those who are thinking of becoming interpreters in the medical field
• interpreters who wish to gain more insight into the field
• those who are bilingual or proficient in a second language, but have not interpreted professionally before
• those who already have medical training or experience, but have not interpreted professionally before

Cost:   $60 if attending in person, $45 if online.
Pay by October 27 to receive a $10 early bird discount:  $50 in person, $35 online  

How to register: Download the workshop info and registration form here.

We look forward to seeing you! (And let your colleagues know!)