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SpbS Graduates in demand on the job market!

SpbS graduates are claiming their rightful space on the language mediation market in Russia and in the world.

In 2009-2011 40 graduates of the School have been awarded diplomas in conference interpreting and conference translation. This is where they find employment:

The MFA of Russia – 7 people (5 are on staff in the Department of Linguistic Support (Moscow) and one person holds a position at the Russian Mission to the EC, one person is employed at the MFA Office in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), staff interpreters.

The UN Headquarters (New York) – 4 are staff translators in the Russian Translation Service, and another 2 are currently going through the staffing procedure to enter the Service later in the year.

The UN Information Centre (Moscow) – one person as a staff interpreter.

10 graduates are on the UN freelance interpreters list

2 graduates were on short-term assignments with the Russian Translation Service in the UN Offices in Geneva and Vienna

One person is on the EU freelance interpreters list

Internships in the UN Translation and Interpretation Services:

• UN Headquarters in New York – 20

• UN Office in Geneva – 4

• UN Office in Vienna – 2

16 are successful freelancers in Russia.

Corporate employment:

• NGO “Medecins sans frontieres” (Netherlands), Moscow office, staff member,

• «ABBYY» Inc., staff member,

• Translation agency “Janus” (Moscow), staff member,

• Translation agency “Martin” (Moscow), staff member,

• “Eclectic Translations”, LLC (St Petersburg), staff members,

• “Northern Capital Gateway”, LLC, staff member,

• Siemens Gas TurbineTechnologies, LLC, staff interpreter,

• “Ilim”, LLC, staff interpreter,

• “UNIBEP” Holding, Airport City St Petersburg company, staff member,

• “Okhta Business Center” JSC (Gazprom in S.Petersburg), staff translator.

• “Fagerhult”, LLC, marketing coordinator

В.А.Чижов: «Потребность в Русском Языке В ЕС Растет!»

On May, 18 Vladimir Chizhov, Permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the EU, visited Herzen University. Vladimir Chizhov had a meeting with the School trainees. He appreciated the work of the School and reaffirmed the long-term commitment of the Russian MFA to its graduates. The honorable guest explained Russia’s foreign policy towards the European Union and stressed the importance of European values for Russia as well as the growing demand for Russian language specialists in the EU. Vladimir Chizhov answered questions from the audience and described the challenges facing interpreters working in IOs – the constant need to upgrade the command of one’s foreign language and broaden the scope of general knowledge. Vladimir Chizhov also had a meeting with First Vice-Rector Sergei Goncharov.

Круглый стол: «Стандарты качества в сфере перевода»

On 6 March, the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation hosted a round table discussion “Quality Standards in Translation and Translation Competency Assessment”. A constructive and engaged discussion lasted from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. Among the participants were A. Krivtsov, Chief Expert of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Moscow), V. Strizhakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Staff Assessment in the Research and Training Center “Control and Diagnostics” (Moscow), N. Duplenskiy, Vice President and Chairman of the Expert Board of the National League of Translators (Moscow), E. Maslovskiy, a UTR Board Member, representatives of translation agencies from Moscow and St Petersburg and the Proverbum Center, administration and trainers of the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation and St Petersburg State University. The participants of the discussion came to the conclusion that it was necessary to develop national industrial quality standards and expressed their readiness to take part in this process together with the Russian Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Март-апрель 2012 г. – мастер-классы К.Г. Касьянова, старшего переводчика Секции русского устного перевода Штаб-квартиры ООН в Нью-Йорке.

March-April 2012 – Master Classes of Kirill Kasyanov, Senior Interpreter, Russian Interpretation Section, UN Headquarters, New York.

From 18 March to 8 April 2012 the School hosted Kirill Kasyanov, a senior interpreter from the Russian Interpretation Section at the UN Headquarters in New York who gave a series of master classes. During three weeks of rigorous work the students practiced their interpreting skills doing actual speeches from the UN meetings. Thanks to our guest’s professionalism every class became a unique experience in professional communication, and his criticism helped the students to understand and try to avoid the most typical mistakes of a simultaneous interpreter. In addition to the classes, Kirill Kasyanov took part in several mock-conferences and sat as an expert on the Admissions Panel for the new applicants.

|Симпозиум по истории перевода в РГГУ (Москва)

On September 15-17 the Russian State University for the Humanities hosted a Symposium on intercultural approaches to the study of the history of translation. Russian academics and their colleagues from Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, the US, Sweden, India, Iran discussed the main issues of the science of translation, national specifics of translation theory, different approaches to translation of sacred texts, translators and other issues. Irina Alexeeva’s report on Innokenty Annensky, a translator of the early XX cent., gave rise to a lively discussion about translator’s personal styles.