Last night, Sir Alan Sugar picked his Apprentice (no spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet!) and here at Taptu, we think we may have found ours. Or at least we’ve found a new wacky person to join the team!

Dear Taptu.com team,

I have read your email regarding your search for translators and can tell you one thing: this is your lucky day! You have just found the most awesome prospective employee under the sun.

In order to avoid beating about the bush I will list a few reasons explaining why you should choose me:

1. I am such an amazing person. You’d love to meet me personally.
2. My English is more than fluent.
3. Polish is my first language. I personally believe anyone who knows Polish should be worshiped.
4. I am concentrating on my Modern and Medieval Languages degree atm, specializing in German and Russian. The last text we had to prepare in our translation class included sentences like “Sir Cathart’s eyes bulged out of his head” or “The college is swarming with bloody poofters”. This task definitely made me stronger.
5. I’m a loser and when I’m not translating, I sit in my room with the curtains drawn and browse the Internet.
6. Being a loser does not prevent me from being a fantastic team worker.
7. Even though I don’t have a degree in Computer Sciences, I have an older brother who does. He has taught me everything a blonde should know about computers. References available on request.
8. I have a laptop and I want it to marry me.
9. I am a poor, underprivileged student, living on baked beans. I need this money!! Otherwise I’ll starve!
10. I strongly oppose what’s happening in Tibet at the moment.

I hope I have managed to persuade you I’m the right person for the job and look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly and sincerely,
K.

Seriously, how could we not invite her for an interview?

As Taptu expands, we want to increase the number of languages we support. Currently we are looking for translators to translate our website into Romanian, French, Russian, Polish, Indonesian and Italian.

This is what’s on offer:

• Approx. 2 weeks of full work (8 h/day) depending on how quick you translate
• £7.30/hour (2 weeks wage guaranteed, £7.30 is approx. €9.20)
• You work from at home
• As we change our website quite often, we might need your help again once with bits and pieces of translation and related work

Essential criteria:

• You are a native speaker of one of the above languages and you’re fluent in English (”school English” is not sufficient)
• You are familiar with using the internet and you understand web-related terms
• You ideally have or are studying on a B.A. (if not, try to convince us)
• You are used to working independently but you are a team player as well
• You have a computer at home to work from and access to the internet

If you think you are the person we are looking for, contact us telling us why you’re special: translations@taptu.com

We’re also looking for a Mobile Traffic Guru, so have a look at the job spec if you’re tempted.

We’re looking for someone to join the Taptu team in Cambridge, as Mobile Internet traffic guru, taking care of PPC campaigns and traffic analysis.

If you can find your way around online advertising systems with your eyes shut, can navigate Excel like a pro and enjoy trying to make sense of web statistics, then have a look at the job spec we’ve just posted and get in touch!