Hi everyone,

I’m currently looking for part-time freelance translation work. I mainly target games, books, films and TV, since that’s where most of my past experience is, but I’m open to other fields as well if something interesting comes up.

The problem is that most of my professional translation projects happened quite a long time ago, and I have no references. Because of that, I decided to build my portfolio, but I’m not fully sure what would be considered the “right” kind of content.

Right now, my portfolio contains some excerpts from published books I worked on (originaltect and translation). I also have some old game localization samples from well-known titles, I added them as screenshots from Excel sheets with source and target columns, and I’m unsure whether that looks professional enough. On top of that, I added a small section with test tasks I completed in the past (even though I wasn’t selected), mostly to show different content types like dialogues, UI strings, skills and achievements. I polished these samples before adding them, but I’m still hesitating.

Would you consider Excel-based game s

amples acceptable? Is it okay to include test tasks?

I’ve built a simple portfolio page in Notion, but I’d really appreciate any insight into what recruiters and agencies actually value most when reviewing portfolios.

Thanks in advance!

What is better to include in a translation portfolio (games / books / audiovisual)?