Issue with UE's call for tenders for translators: PM test ناشر الموضوع: Marcello Lega
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Marcello Lega 
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عضو (2013)
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Hello everyone,
I need help with the following:
I submitted my tender to become a UE translator, but I filled the wrong form and indicated that I'm also a project manager (I thought it was mandatory).
Now I've been enrolled in a translation project management test that I can't take because it involves the translation of a multilingual document of 10k words in 1 day
Does anybody know what should I do now?... See more Hello everyone,
I need help with the following:
I submitted my tender to become a UE translator, but I filled the wrong form and indicated that I'm also a project manager (I thought it was mandatory).
Now I've been enrolled in a translation project management test that I can't take because it involves the translation of a multilingual document of 10k words in 1 day
Does anybody know what should I do now?
I'm worried that if I skip this test, even if it is not relevant to my tender, my submission will be rejected entirely and I won't be able to take the actual translation test for my language pair.
Any sort of help will be more than welcome
Thank in advance!
Marcello ▲ Collapse
| | | | Keith Jackson
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| Contact them and explain | May 31 |
Above all, don't panic! 😉
(I know this is not helpful!)
What about reaching out to whoever was responsible for the tender and explaining your situation with a polite request to be excused from the project management test and be reassigned to the appropriate test for your language pair? Apologize for any inconvenience.
| | | | Marcello Lega
أسبانيا
Local time: 14:16
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بادئ الموضوع | Can't find the contracting authority contact | May 31 |
Keith Jackson wrote:
Above all, don't panic! 😉
(I know this is not helpful!)
What about reaching out to whoever was responsible for the tender and explaining your situation with a polite request to be excused from the project management test and be reassigned to the appropriate test for your language pair? Apologize for any inconvenience.
Thank you Keith,
that is what I'm trying to do, but I can't find a direct way to contact the contracting authtority for this tender.
Do you know anybody who could know who I can reach out to?
Thanks.
M
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I’m afraid there’s nothing to do at this stage, because the fact that you have received a test to do means that the tender is already under way. Anyway, all EU freelance translation competitions are organized by EPSO and you should have an EPSO account. I wonder if you’ll find an answer to you... See more I’m afraid there’s nothing to do at this stage, because the fact that you have received a test to do means that the tender is already under way. Anyway, all EU freelance translation competitions are organized by EPSO and you should have an EPSO account. I wonder if you’ll find an answer to your question here (https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/help/faq/epso-account-application). Do you have the number or the name of the tender? Or are you referring to the permanent tender published by the Cout of Justice? ▲ Collapse
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Marcello Lega
أسبانيا
Local time: 14:16
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بادئ الموضوع | already search through FAQ | May 31 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I’m afraid there’s nothing to do at this stage, because the fact that you have received a test to do means that the tender is already under way. Anyway, all EU freelance translation competitions are organized by EPSO and you should have an EPSO account. I wonder if you’ll find an answer to your question here ( https://eu-careers.europa.eu/en/help/faq/epso-account-application). Do you have the number or the name of the tender? Or are you referring to the permanent tender published by the Cout of Justice?
Hello Maria Teresa and thank you for replying,
I searched in the FAQ section but with no results. There's only a form to contact IT support, which I did and they replied that it's not their domain, of course.
If anything works before, I'll try to upload a txt file during the test, explaining that I am a translator and not a project manager of an agency... although I'm pretty sure that this is not going to work
M
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I was a staff translator at an EU institution for 20 years and I’m retired since 2006. Many things may have changed since then but I’m very surprised that they asked you within a project management test to translate a multilingual document. As far as I know a project manager does not translate an entire document, he/she manages the entire life-cycle of multiple translation projects, organizes and leads the project team, allocates the work to one or more translators, makes the work plan and w... See more I was a staff translator at an EU institution for 20 years and I’m retired since 2006. Many things may have changed since then but I’m very surprised that they asked you within a project management test to translate a multilingual document. As far as I know a project manager does not translate an entire document, he/she manages the entire life-cycle of multiple translation projects, organizes and leads the project team, allocates the work to one or more translators, makes the work plan and workflow in each phase and takes care of the quality control. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Marcello Lega
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Local time: 14:16
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بادئ الموضوع | error during submission | May 31 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I was a staff translator at an EU institution for 20 years and I’m retired since 2006. Many things may have changed since then but I’m very surprised that they asked you within a project management test to translate a multilingual document. As far as I know a project manager does not translate an entire document, he/she manages the entire life-cycle of multiple translation projects, organizes and leads the project team, allocates the work to one or more translators, makes the work plan and workflow in each phase and takes care of the quality control.
Maria Teresa,
That's why I believe I made a mistake while I was filling the forms. There was a tab for project managers and the instructions of the document clearly stated to fill in all the mandatory fields, which I did. Perhaps, all the docs are designed with agencies in mind... I don't know. I hope EPSO will reply to my message!
Fingers crossed!
M
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