What kind of support do you need?

No matter where you are in your career, the advice and encouragement from working professionals with on-the-job experience is priceless. ATA offers mentoring options so you can choose one-on-one support, coaching in small groups, or both!

需要经验

The ATA辅导计划 and ATA策划计划 require two years of experience for participation. If you’re not there yet, we recommend following 精明的新人 for everything you need to know—from getting started to finding clients and more. There’s something here for everyone!

辅导计划

Offering matching services to members at different stages in their career, mentees and mentors benefit from this mutually rewarding program.

策划程序

Having difficulty running your businss alone? Working together in small peer groups, you will benefit from a combination of brainstorming, 教育, 和支持.

What our members say about ATA mentoring

The biggest impact on my professional development was the sense of empowerment, 建立信任, 取得了进展.
——凯瑟琳·J.

I learned to sign up for webinars of interest, negotiate with clients, and establish myself as a
businessperson—something I never saw myself doing!
——Teodosia R.

When I made the switch to working for myself, I felt a bit like a fish out of water. There was so much to learn—how to attract direct clients, get my foot in the door at agencies, juggle a large number of jobs with different expectations. I wanted advice from someone who had been in my shoes. My ATA mentor turned out to be just what I was looking for.
——杰西卡·H.

My mentor was very generous with his knowledge and experience. I always left our sessions with a sense of purpose and concrete strategies to reach my professional goals.

——卡拉·S.

My mentor encouraged me to trust my instincts when it came to marketing and networking, regardless of what the “how-to” articles say. And she reminded me to be patient with my business. There is no short-cut to getting clients. Really, she helped me in so many ways. 很难把它全部总结出来!

——Molly Y.

My mentor showed me what he did to succeed in a competitive, but high value, segment of the market. Even though I had been running my own successful translation business for nearly four years, there was a lot to learn from how someone else handled the challenge of finding new clients.

——本·K.

指导: Get As Much As You Give

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从翻译开始? 找一位导师!

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指导的好处

By 精明的新人 | 2019年8月6日

Photo Credit: Pexels This post was originally published on the Ben Translates blog. It is reposted with permission from the author. This week, I was informed that I have been…

Tapping into the Expertise I Needed: My Experience as an ATA Mentee

By 精明的新人 | 2019年2月12日

Have you ever wondered what the ATA辅导计划 entails, 他加入, and what they get out of the experience? With the application deadline for this year’s program approaching, I’d…