Intergovernmental organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations regularly hold recruitment tests to find translators who can meet their exacting standards. How effective are those tests as instruments of selection? How should they be designed? What skills should they measure? Little research has been done into translation at international organizations and even less into the testing of translators for employment purposes. The groundbreaking study presented in this book begins to fill that gap. A survey of 25 organizations provides an array of insights into how translators at...