Stu13 wrote:Good morning, I am trying to find out information about translation/interpretting work in Scotland for my girlfriend. She is Ukrainian and speaks English and German as well as her native languages i.e Russian and Ukrainian. She studied english and german at university.
Does anybody have any links to agencies that deal with this type of work or actual companies that may be looking for someone with her kanguage skills. At the moment she still lives in Ukraine so would need a work permit unless she waits until she come over here and we marry.
Any advice will be received gladly.
Not easy, my Russian partner has been here for over a year and. whilst we've not tried very hard, there's not much call for russian lang skills and prolly less for Ukrainain.
Mine is a qualied Translator and interpreter, i think it's important to remeber that those are skills in themselves, speaking a language sometimes is only half the battle, remember Claudio Ranieri's 'translator'! hahaha!
I'd say chance of a Work Permit is nil, or almost, as she'd need to be here to get the job, who employs people they've never seen! Unless it's via one of these dodgy IT-type software comanies.....
It's a good post you've made, it's a reality that many Russians/Uktrainian's married to Brits and who have with multiple degrees end up working in ASDA, cos the degrees are worth nowt here (my partners bro bought his).
Steve