Examples of types of question to be asked when you are offered a job option: Job dates and venue Language combination and language into which you will work. Subject matter and possible documentation, can it be accessed? Consulted? Client: who is the client? (if pertinent) Team members and booth members and head of team? Are there any beginners in the team? Is it simultaneous? Consecutive and whispering required? Social functions? Dinners, field trips, etc. Conference schedule Professional fees and expenses, accommodation, transportation, etc.? When is confirmation expected? Terms of payment? Some of these questions can be answered as soon as the option request is made. Others cannot but will be answered in due course. If and when the option becomes a firm offer, all you need is an individual contract to be signed by the client and the interpreter and the specification of the terms of payment.

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