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A professional who directs and coordinates activities of interpreters and translators engaged in translating spoken passages, documents, and other material from one language to another for business establishments, government agencies, and academic institutions. Responsibilities include:
* Studies material, using knowledge of language and linguistics, to determine best qualified personnel for specific projects.
* Assigns projects to personnel and reviews work for quality.
* Attends meetings of groups and organizations engaged in international relations to promote translation service.
* Prepares budget for department and determines allocation of funds.
* Interviews and selects personnel for staff positions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who translates spoken passages from one language into another. Responsibilities include:
* Provides consecutive or simultaneous translation between languages.
* In consecutive interpreting listens to complete statements in one language, translates to second, and translates responses from second into first language.
* Expresses either approximate or exact translation, depending on nature of occasion.
* In simultaneous interpreting renders oral translation of material at time it is being spoken, usually hearing material over electronic audio system and broadcasting translation to listeners.
* Usually receives briefing on subject discussed prior to interpreting session.
* May be designated according to language or languages interpreted.
* May specialize in specific subject area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides translation between spoken and manual (sign language) communication. Responsibilities include:
* Translates spoken material into sign language for understanding of deaf.
* Interprets sign language of deaf into oral or written language for hearing individuals or others not conversant in sign language.
* May translate television news and other broadcasts for deaf viewers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides translation between spoken and manual (sign language) communication. Responsibilities include:
* Translates spoken material into sign language for understanding of deaf.
* Interprets sign language of deaf into oral or written language for hearing individuals or others not conversant in sign language.
* May translate television news and other broadcasts for deaf viewers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who translates documents and other material from one language to another. Responsibilities include:
* Reads material and rewrites material in specified language or languages, following established rules pertaining to factors, such as word meanings, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
* May specialize in particular type of material, such as news, legal documents, or scientific reports and be designated accordingly.
* May be identified according to language translated.
* May represent or spell characters of another alphabet and be designated Transliterator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who devises and creates crossword puzzles. Responsibilities include:
* Draws form setting up numbered blank squares for insertion of words and black squares to complete design.
* Fits words, whose spelling coincides vertically and horizontally, into blank areas and composes short definitions numbered correspondingly with matching series of blank squares.
* Sets up filled puzzle as key to solution.
* May originate puzzles for specific purposes, such as advertisements or holiday specialities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of amusement park educational department to present educational scripts during animal performances. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews educational materials to gather information for scripts.
* Confers with animal trainer to verify format of performance, and writes script to coincide with performance, or reviews scripts prepared by department researchers for suggested changes in format.
* Prepares brochures containing information, such as time of performances, theme of performances, and map of park facilities.
* Reads reservation log to determine information, such as name of visiting groups, size of groups, and time of arrival.
* Greets visitors, passes out brochures, answers questions, and escorts visitors to site of performance.
* May introduce trainer to audience and present memorized script during performance over speaker system and be designated Narrator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who formulates design concepts, selects locations and settings, and directs and coordinates set design, construction, and erection activities to produce sets for motion picture and television productions. Responsibilities include:
* Reads script and confers with heads of production and direction to establish budget, schedules, and determine setting requirement.
* Conducts research and consults experts to establish architectural styles which accurately depict given periods and locations.
* Conducts search for suitable locations and constructed sets.
* Assigns assistants and staff members to complete design ideas and prepare sketches, illustrations, and detailed drawings of sets.
* Directs design and production of graphics or animation to produce graphics or animation for on-air programs.
* Estimates construction costs and presents plans and estimates for approval.
* Directs and coordinates set construction, erection, and decoration activities to ensure that they conform to design, budget, and schedule requirements.
* Reviews budget and expenditures reports to monitor costs.
* May make rough drawings of design concepts.
* May formulate design concepts for costumes, makeup, photographic effects, titles, and related production items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who advises clients relative to fashionable shades and color combinations in paper, paint, draperies, floor coverings, and other permanent installations for furnishing interiors of homes, offices, and other commercial establishments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws cartoons for publications to amuse readers and interpret or illustrate news highlights, advertising, stories, or articles. Responsibilities include:
* Develops personal ideas or reads written material to develop ideas from context.
* Discusses ideas with editor or publisher's representative or sketches cartoon drawing and submits drawing for approval.
* Makes changes and corrections as necessary and finishes drawing.
* May develop and draw comic strips.
* May be designated according to type of cartoons drawn as Editorial Cartoonist; Sports Cartoonist.
Industry:Professional careers
