Job Posting

Project Manager/MT  San Jose, CA

Our Enterprise E-Commerce client is looking for a Localization Project manager to oversee a team of linguists on an MT project. Also should have an understanding of Machine Translation and its different uses.  This is a full time position.

Please contact Gary Lafave at glafave@anzuglobal.com

Job Posting

Brazilian Portuguese QA Engineer  Woburn, MA

Our Fortune 100 client is looking for a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker to provide testing and debugging for the Portuguese version of their software.  Candidate has to be fluent in Portuguese and have some localization and testing experience.  This is a 3-6 month contract opportunity.

Please contact Gary Lafave at glafave@anzuglobal.com

Language Service Providers You never heard of:

Many of the top 100 Language Service providers you have never heard of.  In this multi-billion dollar industry there are many companies that just work with the government, military or specialize in interpreting only.  If you look at the list below, there are many companies that ‘fly under the radar”

Common Sense Advisory has been tracking language service providers (LSPs) that make it to the Inc. 5000 ranking yearly since 2010. This year, 19 LSPs appear on the list (see table below), which is one fewer than last year.

Seven of these LSPs appear on our ranking of this year’s largest LSPs in the world: TransPerfect (number 3 in our ranking at “The Top 100 Language Service Providers: 2013,” May13), Welocalize, (#8), CyraCom International (#20), Certified Languages International (#48), Global Language Solutions (#63), Geneva Worldwide (#87), and CETRA Language Solutions (#94). Two other companies from the Inc. list, Kinetic.theTechnologyAgency (named as only ‘Kinetic’ on the Inc. list) and InDemand Interpreting, appear on our regional ranking for North America (#29 and #30 respectively).

Five companies have made it to the Inc. ranking every year since 2010: TransPerfect, Welocalize, CyraCom International, CETRA Language Solutions, and Dynamic Language. The first four appear regularly on our rankings, too.

Inc. Rank	Language Service Provider	3-Year Growth Rate	Revenue in US$ millions
204	CWU	2062%	10.2
423	Mid Atlantic Professionals TA/SSI	1076%	9.2
821	InDemand Interpreting	550%	3.9
1549	Bridge360	257%	6.4
2514	adaQuest	141%	12.7
2610	Kinetic	135%	4.1
2636	Global Language Solutions	133%	10.5
3064	Propio Language Services	109%	2.1
3292	Addison Group	97%	139.3
3310	CETRA Language Solutions	96%	5.9
3396	CyraCom International	92%	48.7
3676	Welocalize	81%	90.8
3839	Certified Languages International	74%	14.4
4082	1-Stop Translation USA	65%	2.3
4248	Universal Language Service	59%	6.1
4287	LinguaLinx	57%	4.3
4363	TransPerfect	55%	341.3
4522	Geneva Worldwide	50%	7.4
4631	Dynamic Language	47%	9.2

Call to Action

Sorry to interrupt the flow of globalization blogs…as part of the globalization community, would like to speak out against actions proposed by Obama.

If you have reservations about bombing Syria, please read on.  Please invest  five to ten minutes on some of the action items below.  With the internet there are many steps we can take that will have an impact.

My personal views:  diplomacy works, war does not.  Greater effort has to be taken with engaging allies in the region, engaging the UN Security Council, working with Congress.  The US can focus on relief efforts for the Syrian people, at a much lower cost than invading the country.  Have we not learned from Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Action items:

--tweet the President your views @BarackObama

--Call the White house  comment line #202-456-1111

--Contact your Congress  (use this tool to find them: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/ )

--Write a letter to your local paper

--Forward the action item list to friends via email, post on Facebook, Twitter

--Sign and circulate these petitions:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/truly-protect-the-syrian?source=homepage

Funny Language Mistakes

Person A: Is this a big project?

 Person B:  No, but this is just the ice of the tipberg.