Freelance or Professional Translation Agency
Companies and clients looking for translation services go through a great dilemma trying to work out whether to hire a specialized translation agency or a freelance translator. It has been observed that some clients prefer to hire a freelance translator every time they want a translation project completed whereas others prefer to get their translation done by a professional, certified translation agency. There are yet some others who first hire a freelance translator and then get the translation quality checked by a professional agency. But the million dollar question is “Which approach is right? Freelance or Professional Agency or…..both?” The first type of clients, those who hire freelance translators for each separate translation job, usually suffer the most because of the lack of consistency of quality each time a freelancer is hired. As there are no quality standards for separate translations and no systematic method to ensure the same, the freelancer usually goes unchecked an