Translator Cover Letter Example

I translate 2,500 to 3,000 words daily across contracts, court filings and financial disclosures for law firm and corporate clients, and I have completed more than 400 certified immigration and court translations with zero accuracy rejections. I'm applying for the translator role at [Agency name] because your caseload leans heavily into the legal and financial documents I already specialize in.

I maintain a 99.2% first-pass QA rate on independent bilingual review over three years, and I manage a 1,200-term shared glossary across a six-translator team that cut terminology inconsistency flags by 50%. I also mentor two junior translators on legal terminology and CAT tool workflow, reducing their average project turnaround by 20%.

I hold ATA certification for English to Spanish, an active state court certification, and I work daily in SDL Trados with both translation memory and machine-translation post-editing workflows. I translate in both directions, English to Spanish and Spanish to English, and I know the formatting requirements for USCIS and state court filings without a second reference check, and I turn around rush same-day requests within a four-hour window when a filing deadline requires it.

I would welcome a conversation about [Agency name]'s current caseload and where my legal and financial specialization could add capacity fastest. I can share my QA record and sample certified translations. Thank you for your consideration.