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Poll: Do you recommend a colleague to your clients if you cannot accept a particular project?
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Michael Wetzel
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Germany
Local time: 04:22
German to English
yes and no Oct 15, 2014

I do not recommend colleagues who are actually in competition with me (= translators specialized in German > English and specialized in art), although I am in the process of figuring out if I should begin to do so or begin to outsource appropriate projects that I don't have time to do myself.

I almost always recommend or, if I can't recommend someone, at least name colleagues and sources for finding translators (mostly the lists of members of translators' associations) when I get re... See more
I do not recommend colleagues who are actually in competition with me (= translators specialized in German > English and specialized in art), although I am in the process of figuring out if I should begin to do so or begin to outsource appropriate projects that I don't have time to do myself.

I almost always recommend or, if I can't recommend someone, at least name colleagues and sources for finding translators (mostly the lists of members of translators' associations) when I get requests for bids for projects involving English > German or other language pairs or other subject areas. ▲ Collapse
 
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Poll: Do you recommend a colleague to your clients if you cannot accept a particular project?






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