Translation Project Manager intern Review

Overall I enjoyed it. I learned a lot about the industry I graduated in and feel like I learned something new every day on the first couple of months. After a while, though, I felt like the work started to be a bit repetitive and there was nothing "new" to learn in the intern to-do list.

I felt quite valued in an every-day basis: everyone always said thank you after helping them with projects and overall listened to my suggestions and thoughts about how we could improve a translation / way of doing things.

My mentor has been amazing, always ready to help whenever I was struggling with something and prompt to give support and council if necessary. You can see they have had many interns during the years because everything was taught little by little so I didn't feel overwhelmed, and every "intern session" in which I was given additional workload photocopies with explanations were provided to help me keep track on things.

There were some very busy days, while other days there was nothing to do pretty much. After being here for some time, however, I have found that this is a constant for the agency in general, so not related to my internship.

The day to day task was essentially QAing files managed by the PM. This of course entails responsibility because this were to be the final version to be delivered to the client, but I the more I continued the internship the more I felt like I would have wanted to have more responsibilities like liaising with clients and having more projects of my own.

I started my internship after having finished university, so of course it didn't assist me in my degree studies in any way. Generally speaking, though, I feel I really know much more about translation industry than I did after graduating. I recommend this internship even if you want to be a freelancer after university, because it gives you insight on client expectations, working hours and competition. Myself, I have decided to stay at Language Connect, so

The majority of the communication is on Skype or Microsoft teams, which makes the atmosphere in the office pretty quiet and focused. Otherwise everyone is really friendly and helpful.

The internship is very well organised: at the beginning you get a "to-do" list with everything you will learn to do during your stay at LC, and I also got a booklet (now online) in which you determine your expectations so you can confront them when you finish the experience.

As I said, I feel like in the first few months I learned quite a lot and quickly, but after a while the tasks became quite repetitive and I started to feel like I didn't have much new to learn anymore.

They are quite often looking for new people to join the company, including myself 3 people have become Project Executives from intern in the 6 months I have been here.

We went out for beers quite a lot, nothing organised by the company, just between ourselves. There are 8 interns in the company at all times so it's easy to make friends.

It's London, and the company is in the city centre, so it's quite expensive.

Again it's London and the agency is in the city center, so there is quite a lot of places to go to at all times.

During the months I have been there, there has been only one team building activity (a pizza making night, which was of course fun). Since the majority of the interns come from outside the United Kingdom and potentially do not know anybody, it would be nice if they could be more involved in out of work activities.