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Are you an expert Project Manager looking for a new opportunity?   Interested in joining our award-winning Project Management Team?   We’re hiring!!   We currently have a vacancy for an enthusiastic, client-focused, experienced part-time project manager with great communication skills to build rapport with clients, linguists and colleagues, as well as plenty of initiative to find the right solutions for different types of projects. We are a small yet ambitious company based in New Mills, Derbyshire. Peak Translations is

As our relationship with countries in the EU and internationally changes, we are presented with more and more opportunities for growth.  When engaging with new markets, effective communication is key. It is not enough to simply translate your marketing material into your chosen language. Six areas you may wish to consider in your market entry planning:   Is the size of territory large enough to justify your market entry cost? Is your type of product in demand, or do you

Wanting to find the best price for a service is a driver for any business. Paying for translation is no different. Yet, like any other service or product, reducing the price comes either at the expense of speed or quality. Reduce the cost and maintain the speed, and quality drops (since the cheapest translators are the cheapest, and most available, for a reason). Reduce the cost and maintain the quality, and the translation will take longer to deliver. After all,

Introducing Peak’s Partner Programme It is likely that we all know companies who are working internationally. It could be our own clients. Contacts through our networking. Or perhaps even a different department of the organisation we work for. As a business with a 45-year heritage, Peak Translations understands and is fully committed to developing long-standing, sustainable relationships with both its clients and suppliers. We pride ourselves on our exacting standards. That is an investment that pays off when many of

When you’ve no personal knowledge of your target language, it can be incredibly difficult to measure if your translation partner is doing a good job. They may well refer to their ‘value add’ but what does this mean in concrete terms, and what impact does it have on your finished work? At Peak Translations, we articulate our ‘value add’ as six key qualities: 1. Subject specialisms Each of our talented translators is hand-picked for his or her subject specialism; be

More and more, the world is choosing to engage digitally. But what of your foreign audiences? How do you make sure they enjoy the same user experience as their native-English-speaking counterparts? The answer lies in voiceover and subtitles. There are many different occasions when you might want to attract or engage with an international audience. It could be that you want to impart knowledge about a particular subject, and have chosen e-learning as your channel. Perhaps you want to attract

When you’ve no personal knowledge of your target language, it can be incredibly difficult to measure if your translation partner is doing a good job. They may well refer to their ‘value add’ but what does this mean in concrete terms, and what impact does it have on your finished work? At Peak Translations, we articulate our ‘value add’ as six key qualities: 1. Subject specialisms Each of our talented translators is hand-picked for his or her subject specialism; be

Here at Peak Translations, we are forensic in our translation work. It is our job to make your messaging as clear as possible for your target audience. That requires a contextual understanding of every word, and the work is often painstaking. There are, however, some checks you can undertake yourself before passing on your copy for translation, which will save time, money and energy further down the line. Here’s our top tips on getting your original document ‘translation ready’: 1.

Peak Translations are delighted to have been named Project Management Team of the Year 2022 in the annual ATC Language Industry Awards. The awards, hosted by the Association of Translation Companies, recognises and celebrates excellence in the language services profession.   The company first scooped the prestigious award in 2018. Since then, the Project Management Team has doubled in size, with one of the 2018 winners, Madeline Prusmann, now heading up the team who was delighted to be a winner

So, you want to grow your overseas sales, you’ve identified the target markets and decided to invest in a dedicated website in the language of the target audience. But how do you make sure you get maximum return on your investment? Quite simply, you need to make sure your website not only appeals but can also be found by your target audience, and the way to do that is by localising the content and ensuring the site is fully optimised