Find a Linguist is regularly cited as one of the key benefits by CIOL's members

Indeed, many members report having found some of their best clients through this valued service. And the opportunity to find accredited linguists from a Chartered body is certainly popular with Language Service Providers (LSPs) and other translation buyers. In the last 12 months alone, we've seen over 165,000 Find a Translator page views and more than 77,000 Find an Interpreter views through Find a Linguist.

With such high demand, we've been carrying out some improvements to Find a Linguist:

• Improved Member Profiles: We've moved the Statement section to the top of member profiles. This change is important as it's a chance to stand out. If you don't have a statement, we strongly encourage you to add one to your profile.

• Streamlined Language Options: While we pride ourselves on having very many language pairs amongst our members, we've streamlined the number of languages users choose from (still incredibly extensive). We've also added English at the top of the search bar as, for example, almost every search in Find a Translator involves English in one language direction.

• Enhanced back-end systems We’ve upgraded our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, ensuring faster, more reliable searches for users seeking CIOL accredited linguists.

These small but important improvements to Find a Linguist are an interim step before we embark on the more major project of upgrading our whole website, which will allow us to make bigger improvements to look, feel and functionality. In the meantime we plan to consult and engage both our members and users of Find a Linguist further, in case there are other useful small changes we can make, as we work towards an updated 'look and feel'.