This course in Business Management (BM) is designed to train you to become a leading manager, or to work as a freelance consultant, with a company operating in multiple markets around the world.
It is an intensive, short course created to provide professional development in managing business operations on an international scale. You are free to work at your own pace so completion time depends on you.
Corporations operating globally need BM's to manage the localization of marketing materials, technical manuals, etc. for domestic markets worldwide.
Candidates for these positions need to be able to learn quickly, think on their feet, and mobilize teams to fulfill commitments with clients relative to deadlines, quality, and cost. A university degree is advantageous but not necessarily essential. Foreign language skills can be useful but in your role as business manager you would not normally be required to translate or interpret as these tasks would be carried out by qualified translators and interpreters who would form part of your team.
Persons with a background in languages, translation studies or linguistics would be able to fill some positions calling for such skill sets as a precondition. (Some smaller companies combine management and language skills in a single job offering.)
This course takes you through the processes and procedures involved in managing and localizing marketing materials and other documents in a step-by-step presentation of study materials. Special attention is paid to web content and the tools used to produce websites with subsites holding information for target markets
You will be able to measure your progress through quizzes and other tests, with feedback on your outcomes.
There is no doubt that the job market for localization and translation services is facing a dramatic increase as the figures demonstrate: In 2012 the projections from the “Language Services Market 2012″ report states the industry will reach US $33.5 billion shared by over 26,104 suppliers of related services across the globe; Microsoft alone executes over 1,000 localization projects a year.
