Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: starting out as a freelancer advice on purchasing CAT tools
Poster: Katrin Braams
Post title: Trados
If you plan to work for agency clients Trados should be your first choice, as among the jobs which prescribe the use of a certain CAT tool it is certainly the one most often called for. I don’t remember ever having seen a job posted which made the use of Cafetrans mandatory. If clients do require other tools, such as Memsource, MemoQ or XTM, they usually provide free licenses. But they never provide a free license for Trados.
Trados is somewhat difficult to learn, not really intuitive. But once you have understood how it works the use of any other (client-imposed) CAT tool will not really be a challenge for you, as most other tools are easier to use or have similar features as Trados. If you succeed with Trados, you succeed everywhere!
Topic: starting out as a freelancer advice on purchasing CAT tools
Poster: Katrin Braams
Post title: Trados
If you plan to work for agency clients Trados should be your first choice, as among the jobs which prescribe the use of a certain CAT tool it is certainly the one most often called for. I don’t remember ever having seen a job posted which made the use of Cafetrans mandatory. If clients do require other tools, such as Memsource, MemoQ or XTM, they usually provide free licenses. But they never provide a free license for Trados.
Trados is somewhat difficult to learn, not really intuitive. But once you have understood how it works the use of any other (client-imposed) CAT tool will not really be a challenge for you, as most other tools are easier to use or have similar features as Trados. If you succeed with Trados, you succeed everywhere!