Market Demand Survey Of Translation Professionals In Jilin Province

Training of translation professionals must closely connect with translation industry andtranslation market. Only in this way can translation professionals adapt to the demand ofmarket, and meet the requirements of translation industry. In addition, when preparingrelevant materials for market demand of translation professionals in Jilin province, theauthor finds that there are quite a few articles and books on academic research of translationtraining but little research on market demand of translation professionals. However, thesearticles are mostly based on the situation of national translation market, and can not be thereference of a certain region, such as Jilin province.The present situation of translation market in Jilin province is that the employment oftranslation professionals concentrates mainly on government sectors, enterprises,universities and colleges and translation companies. Therefore, according to the availablematerials, the author designs a questionnaire to implement investigation. The survey ofworkload, education background, major, ability of translation professionals and otheraspects can show the present situation of translation market and demand for translationprofessionals in Jilin province. Based on data analysis and demand analysis, universitiesand colleges could improve MTI education which is able to accord with market demand totrain qualified translation professionals.After analyzing the results of interviews and questionnaire surveys about marketdemand of translation professionals in Jilin province, the author puts forward the proposalto translation professionals and MTI education. The author hopes to help translationprofessionals acquire awareness of the present situation of translation market, and toimprove the overall quality of translation professionals.