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Interpreter

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Advocate interpreter Bilateral interpreter Bilingual health advocate Business interpreter Community interpreter Conference interpreter Consecutive interpreter Court interpreter Guide interpreter Interpreter Medical interpreter Police interpreter Public service interpreter Remote interpreter Simultaneous interpreter Social interpreter Sworn interpreter Telephone interpreter Television interpreter

Interpreters understand and convert spoken communication from one language to another. They retain considerable amounts of information, often with the aid of note-taking, and communicate it immediately after whilst keeping the nuances and stress of the message in the recipient language.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Studying relationships between ancient parent languages and modern language groups, tracing the origin and evolution of words, grammar and language forms, and presenting findings;
(b) Advising on or preparing language classification systems, grammars, dictionaries and similar materials;
(c) Translating from one language into another and ensuring that the correct meaning of the original is retained, that legal, technical or scientific works are correctly rendered, and that the phraseology and terminology of the spirit and style of literary works are conveyed as far as possible;
(d) Developing methods for the use of computers and other instruments to improve productivity and quality of translation;
(e) Interpreting from a spoken or a signed language into another spoken or signed language , in particular at conferences, meetings and similar occasions, and ensuring that the correct meaning and, as far as possible, the spirit of the original are transmitted;
(f) Revising and correcting translated material.

Knowledge

  • Literature and linguistics
  • Language acquisition
  • Education science
  • Medicine

Digital competencies

  • Translating and interpreting
  • Technical or academic writing
  • Using foreign languages
  • Managing information
  • Conducting academic or market research

Digital competencies

  • Using word processing, publishing and presentation software

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Following ethical code of conduct

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Legal, social and cultural professionals

Authors, journalists and linguists

Translators, interpreters and other linguists

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Translators, interpreters and other linguists

657

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

77,57%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-6,81% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

53,58%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

40,33%

Part-time contracts

1,44% Turnover index

640

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

5%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Legal, social and cultural professionals

41%

59%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Legal, social and cultural professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Authors, journalists and linguists

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Translators, interpreters and other linguists

No experience
4%
Less than 1 year
59%
Between 1 and 2 years
10%
Between 2 and 4 years
16%
Between 4 and 8 years
2%
More than 8 years
9%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
30%
Information and communication
15%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
14%
Manufacturing
12%
Administrative and support service activities
12%
Others
17%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.