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Thread poster: Peter Motte
Peter Motte
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Belgium
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Nov 8, 2023

A potential job offer says:
Selection process:
1. We need any previous translation sample in Marketing domain Source file + translated file

But that's not allowed because of NDA's.
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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Not all NDAs are created equal Nov 8, 2023

Peter Motte wrote:
But that's not allowed because of NDA's.

Not all NDAs would disallow this sort of thing. Plus, if you anonymize the text, some believe that even despite an NDA it would be safe to send the files.

Christopher Schröder
Thomas Pfann
Jorge Payan
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Juno Bos
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Zambia
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German to Dutch
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They can ask me anything Nov 10, 2023

But it doesn't mean I will answer

Christopher Schröder
Daryo
 
Arianne Farah
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Canada
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English to French
Are they published? Nov 16, 2023

Peter Motte wrote:

A potential job offer says:
Selection process:
1. We need any previous translation sample in Marketing domain Source file + translated file

But that's not allowed because of NDA's.


If they've been published & freely available, a link to the source and a link to the translation should suffice (with a note if they were reviewed/modified by a 3rd party before publication).
 


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