by the LKTeam | 1st February 2023 | Language, LKT, Translation
A week or so on from receiving the fantastic news that after carrying out their annual quality audit one of our biggest customers has rated us their number 1 translation supplier, I’ve been reflecting on all things “quality”. If you can’t sell on quality, as some...
by the LKTeam | 21st June 2022 | CPD, LKT, Travel
As a team member who’s based off-site in Edinburgh, I’ve enjoyed being a part of the ITI Scottish Network, one of the regional groups within the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, ever since I moved from Manchester back up north of the border. The Scottish...
by the LKTeam | 20th September 2021 | Celebration, LKT, Team
This week marks 15 years since Siobhan Gorrie joined the team at LKT. It’s impossible to overstate Siobhan’s value to LKT. Having joined us as a trainee on completion of her MA, she is our longest serving in‑house employee. Sadly often mistakenly confused with lack of...
by the LKTeam | 3rd February 2021 | LKT, Team, Training
On this website and in published articles, we’ve talked extensively about our unique Translator Academy model and how we use it to transform our new recruits into fully fledged translators who are able to handle every aspect of a translation project independently....
by the LKTeam | 28th September 2020 | LKT, Team, Training
We recently returned to our office building in Middleton after almost six months of working from home.* An appropriate time to reflect, maybe, not only on events of the past months but also on how our team setup pre-COVID equipped us – for better or for worse – to...
by the LKTeam | 20th November 2019 | CPD, LKT, Team, Training
It may be tempting to think we were done with learning when we left school or university, but we all learn something new every day. We might discover a shortcut to work, find out why a friend hasn’t been replying to our texts or read a word we’ve never seen before....