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51114.02 – Terminologists

Terminologists conduct research to itemize terms connected with a certain field, define them and find equivalents in another language.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Legal terminologist
  • Medical terminologist
  • Terminologist

Core competencies

  • Writing to clearly and concisely define, explain and standardize terminology across various contexts, ensuring precise, accessible language that meets industry-specific requirements
  • Reading Comprehension to read and understand complex texts and documents, identify nuanced meanings and extract specialized terminology accurately
  • Selective Attention to concentrate on specific linguistic details and variations in terminology, filtering out irrelevant information and ensuring accurate and precise term selection
  • Information Ordering to logically and efficiently organize complex linguistic data, definitions and classification systems to support clear, accurate and context-appropriate terminology
  • Attention to Detail to analyze linguistic nuances and the accuracy of terms, while using precise and consistent terminology across documents and systems, in order to ensure clarity and prevent misinterpretation in specialized fields
  • Knowledge in Languages to understand nuances of languages and terminology to accurately translate specialized documents with the use of reference materials

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Identify the terminology used in a field of activity
  • Conduct terminological research on a given subject or in response to inquiries for the preparation of glossaries, terminology banks, technological files, dictionaries, lexicons and resource centres, and add to terminological databases
  • Manage, update and circulate linguistic information collected from terminological databases
  • Provide consultative services to translators, interpreters and technical writers preparing legal, scientific or other documents that require specialized terminologies.

Additional information

  • Translators, terminologists and interpreters specialize in two languages, such as French and English, the official languages of Canada. They may also specialize in another language and one of the official languages. The main areas of specialization include administrative, literary, scientific and technical translation. Interpreters may specialize in court, parliamentary or conference interpretation.

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NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

5 – Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport

TEER

1 – Occupations usually require a university degree

Major group

51 – Professional occupations in art and culture

Sub-major group

511 – Professional occupations in art and culture

Minor group

5111 – Writing, translating and related communications professionals

Unit group

51114 – Translators, terminologists and interpreters

Occupational profile

51114.02 – Terminologists

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