{"id":4681,"date":"2017-04-18T23:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2019-06-29T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:22:27","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be certified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To be or not to be\u2014a certified linguist, that is. The meaning of certification in our profession today has taken on a host of meanings, and this is not always a good thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With end users of interpreting and translation becoming more aware of the importance of certification in specific settings, it is useful to review the meanings of terms like <\/em>certified<em>, <\/em>qualified<em>, <\/em>licensed<em>, <\/em>registered<em>, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This overview, provided by the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section of the Department of Justice, succinctly reviews what it means to be a certified linguist, and which questions are relevant to ask interpreters and Language Service Providers (LSPs) when entering into new business relationships.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on certification, check out The Savvy Newcomer\u2019s recent post on the issue here: <a href=\"https:\/\/atasavvynewcomer.org\">https:\/\/atasavvynewcomer.org<\/a>. Helen Eby and Daniela Guanipa do an excellent job at fleshing this subject out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 30px;\"><em>Aleyna Maria Tusa, Contributing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FEDS-what-does-it-mean-to-be-certified.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">FEDS-what-does-it-mean-to-be-certified<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FEDS-what-does-it-mean-to-be-certified.pdf\">Open and download the PDF here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/fcs\/fcs-publications-major-interest\">https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/fcs\/fcs-publications-major-interest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be or not to be\u2014a certified linguist, that is. The meaning of certification in our profession today has taken on a host of meanings, and this is not always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>With end users of interpreting and translation becoming more aware of the importance of certification in specific settings, it is useful to review the meanings of terms like <em>certified<\/em>, <em>qualified<\/em>, <em>licensed<\/em>, <em>registered<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This overview, provided by the Federal Coordination and Compliance Section of the Department of Justice, succinctly reviews what it means to be a certified linguist, and which questions are relevant to ask interpreters and Language Service Providers (LSPs) when entering into new business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on certification, check out The Savvy Newcomer\u2019s recent post on the issue here: <a href=\"https:\/\/atasavvynewcomer.org\">https:\/\/atasavvynewcomer.org<\/a>. Helen Eby and Daniela Guanipa do an excellent job at fleshing this subject out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: left;\">Aleyna Maria Tusa, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,180],"tags":[48,140],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blog","category-professional-practice","tag-certification","tag-credentials","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What does it mean to be certified? 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