Is Constance Abidemi-Voigt a real translator

No. She is invented for this page, and so is Steinwerder Legal Services. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's practice.

How should freelance work be listed

As a role, with the volume and the client count. Self-employed with 900 000 words a year for fourteen regular clients is a business, and it should be described like one.

Is a deadline record worth stating

It is the strongest line a translator has. Six hundred and twenty projects with two missed deadlines is a statement about reliability that a project manager can check with one reference call.

What did the checker score it

98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 3 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 95 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.

Where do the language levels go

In their own languages section with levels, not in a skills row. The example carries German, English and Dutch with levels, the reader keeps them as their own section, and the sworn status stays a certification with its year.

Which design is this rendered in

Placard, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Slim, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set. It is a property of the layout and it says nothing about any employer's software.

Example · Languages

A free translator résumé example, counted in words and deadlines

One complete translator résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— volume, deadline record, terminology. the rest is a sample.

The translator example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Placard design: name, summary, three dated roles with five lines under each, education, languages and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Placard design, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Translation is sold on a sample and bought on reliability, and a translator's page is where reliability has to be visible. This example is written out in full so you can read one, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Constance Abidemi-Voigt
Translator, German to English
Leipzig, Germany · [email protected] · +49 341 5550 0163

Summary
German to English translator with nine years in legal and technical work, delivering 900 000 words a year for 14 regular clients and maintaining term bases across contracts, patents and engineering documentation.

Experience

Freelance Translator · Self-employed, Leipzig · 2019 to present

Translated 900 000 words a year for 14 regular clients in law and engineering, and held a repeat-business rate above 90% since 2019.
Delivered 620 projects over 5 years and missed 2 deadlines, and renegotiated both of those dates with the client a week beforehand.
Built term bases of 8 000 entries for 3 clients and cut their review time by 28%, which removed 2 rounds from every project.
Reviewed 200 000 words a year of other translators' output and returned 94% of those files inside the agreed 48-hour window.
Handled 40 sworn translations a year for 6 courts and notaries, and no certified document required a correction across 5 full years.

In-house Translator · Steinwerder Legal Services, Hamburg · 2016 to 2019

Translated 40 contracts a month for 6 partners under a 48-hour turnaround and cleared every one of those 1 400 documents on time.
Standardised 1 200 legal terms across 4 practice areas and cut partner queries about wording from 30 a month to 6 within 2 years.
Trained 5 junior translators on the house style and the review process, and 4 of them still work at the firm today.
Built the review checklist that 9 translators applied to 500 files a year, and rejected work fell from 12% to 3%.
Managed 3 external agencies on overflow work of 300 000 words a year and held the quality score above 95% on every batch.

Junior Translator · Steinwerder Legal Services, Hamburg · 2015 to 2016

Prepared 2 000 pages of technical documentation for review in a single year and corrected 96% of flagged segments without a second pass.
Catalogued 4 000 glossary entries from 60 archived contracts and gave the practice its first searchable terminology file for German company law.
Checked 900 translated documents a year against the source text and returned 140 of them to the translator before any client delivery.
Supported 6 partners with 200 urgent turnarounds a year and delivered 9 in every 10 of them within 2 working days.
Documented the file handover routine between 3 offices, and the firm cut lost source files from 40 a year to none.

Education
MA Translation Studies · Elsterwerda School of Languages, Leipzig · 2012 to 2015

Skills
legal translation, technical translation, terminology management, proofreading, editing, contract drafting, German, English, translation memory tools, quality assurance

Languages
German · native · English · C2 · Dutch · B2

Certifications
Sworn translator, German courts · 2018

Words, clients, deadlines

Nine hundred thousand words a year for fourteen regular clients. Six hundred and twenty projects over five years with two missed deadlines. Forty contracts a month under a forty-eight hour turnaround. Those three lines tell an agency everything it needs before reading a sample.

Naming the two missed deadlines is what makes the record credible. A perfect claim invites doubt; a near-perfect one with the exceptions counted invites a conversation.

Terminology is the professional differentiator

Termbases of 8 000 entries for three clients, with review time down 28%. Twelve hundred legal terms standardised across four practice areas. Terminology work is what separates a translator a client keeps from one they use once, and it is the part almost nobody puts on a page.

Revision work belongs there too: 200 000 words a year of other translators' output reviewed. Being trusted to correct other people is the clearest seniority signal in the profession.

Skills for a translator résumé, grouped

Constance's skills fall into specialisms, languages and quality. Specialisms: legal translation, technical translation, contract drafting. Languages: German, English. Quality and tools: terminology management, proofreading, editing, translation memory tools, quality assurance. An agency project manager reads the specialisms and quality groups together.

Put your language pair in the headline as well, since it is the first filter any client applies. The résumé builder takes any group names you choose, and it is free.

From junior translator to freelance specialist

A junior translator's résumé proves accuracy under review: words translated, revisions accepted, glossaries built. The Steinwerder roles start there. An in-house translator adds a specialism and volume.

A freelance specialist adds clients, deadlines and terminology work that others rely on. Write the freelance period like a job, with dates and results. The freelance work guide covers the format.

How it reads and scores

The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 3 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five points it withheld all belong to one rule: tense. How the reading and the score are produced is set out in the note on how these examples are made.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Constance Abidemi-Voigt's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Constance Abidemi-Voigt's translator résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Constance Abidemi-Voigt's translator résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What this example leaves off

No client names, no document titles and no sample passages. Confidentiality is most of the value a legal translator offers, and an agency reads a page that names clients as a page that will name them next year.

Rates are left off as well. A rate is a negotiation, it belongs in the email rather than on the page, and quoting one on a résumé anchors a conversation before the work has been described.

What to change for your own

Change the pair and the field. Literary, medical, patent, subtitling and localisation work all use this shape with different units and different tools. Then put in your own volumes, client counts, deadline record and terminology work.

Keep the language levels in their own section; the guide on languages covers the levels to use. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the copywriter example, the teaching assistant example and the librarian example sit beside this one.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Constance's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Placard design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Constance Abidemi-Voigt a real translator: No. She is invented for this page, and so is Steinwerder Legal Services. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's practice.
How should freelance work be listed: As a role, with the volume and the client count. Self-employed with 900 000 words a year for fourteen regular clients is a business, and it should be described like one.
Is a deadline record worth stating: It is the strongest line a translator has. Six hundred and twenty projects with two missed deadlines is a statement about reliability that a project manager can check with one reference call.
What did the checker score it: 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 3 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 95 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.
Where do the language levels go: In their own languages section with levels, not in a skills row. The example carries German, English and Dutch with levels, the reader keeps them as their own section, and the sworn status stays a certification with its year.
Which design is this rendered in: Placard, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Slim, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set. It is a property of the layout and it says nothing about any employer's software.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.