What kind of support do you need?

No matter where you are in your career, the advice and encouragement from working professionals with on-the-job experience is priceless. ATA offers mentoring options so you can choose one-on-one support, coaching in small groups, or both!

Experience is required

The ATA Mentoring Program and ATA Mastermind Program require two years of experience for participation. If you’re not there yet, we recommend following The Savvy Newcomer for everything you need to know—from getting started to finding clients and more. There’s something here for everyone!

Mentoring Program

Offering matching services to members at different stages in their career, mentees and mentors benefit from this mutually rewarding program.

Mastermind Program

Having difficulty running your businss alone? Working together in small peer groups, you will benefit from a combination of brainstorming, education, and support.

What our members say about ATA mentoring

The biggest impact on my professional development was the sense of empowerment, confidence building, and progress achieved.
- Katherine J.

The Mentor’s Bounty: How Mentoring Enriches both Mentor and Mentee

By The Savvy Newcomer | January 15, 2019

During the 59th ATA Conference in New Orleans, a colleague asked me, “What was the motivation that drove a group of translators to create an audiovisual division in the ATA?”…

How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA: The Mentoring Program

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 16, 2016

In January 2015 I joined the American Translators Association for the first time and was ready to give it my all. When I logged into my online account with my…

Need advice or want to share your wisdom? Join the ATA Mentoring Program!

By The Savvy Newcomer | February 2, 2016

The Mentoring Program is an ATA membership benefit. Any ATA member can apply to become a mentee; this is a valuable privilege many members don’t know they have. If there…

The ATA Mentoring Program through the eyes of a mentor-mentee pair

By The Savvy Newcomer | March 3, 2015

With the deadline to apply for the ATA Mentoring Program for 2015 fast approaching this week—March 7, to be more precise—we thought this would be a great opportunity to showcase…

From ATA’s Mentoring Committee: How to Be a Happy and Prosperous Translator or Interpreter

By The Savvy Newcomer | September 23, 2014

By Eric Chiang ATA’s Mentoring Program has had two lives so far. Its first life began as the brainchild of then ATA Board member Courtney Searls-Ridge. Courtney followed her dream…