Erin Everett

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While Erin Everett has applied her love of languages to her job at Lucent Technologies, she says that a career in localization is not just about translation. “Localization means adapting a product to a specific culture, so in the instance of say a certain website or video game, that can involve language translation, the graphics and even the sound effects that are appropriate to that language. There are opportunities for graphic designers, sound technicians, project managers and QA Engineers/Website and software testers.”

If you’re looking for clues as to whether or not a localization career is right for you, Erin believes that “It takes more than someone who’s interested in languages, it takes someone who’s interested and open to foreign cultures.” Erin has immersed herself in French culture during sabbaticals from Lucent: once at the prestigious Monterey Institute of International Studies, www.miis.edu, and another time at The Cordon Bleu www.lecordonbleu.com culinary arts school in Paris, where she completed a certificate program that condensed one year of culinary school into five weeks.

 

For More Information:

What Can You Do with a Degree in Linguistics? Visit: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/student/careers/subjectoptions/linguistics.shtml

Read more about how companies use localization services by visiting the “Case Studies” page at Language Works: www.languageworks.com.