Si un miembro de la audiencia nos pide nuestra tarjeta y nosotros NO somos los organizadores, ¿debemos entregarla?

I also think it is best to forward the person's card to the recruiting interpreter.

Some other situations come to mind e.g. where someone asks a group of interpreters for their business cards. If the recruiting interpreter is one of them, it is always helpful to let him/her go ahead and to claim to have forgotten to bring your own cards. Lengthy explanations why you don't want to give your own card might sound strange to the person who asked.

Any recruiting interpreter who was happy with the services rendered by his/her colleague(s) will remember who was on the team and recruit the same interpreters if possible or at least some of them in case he/she can accept the assignment himself/herself next time.

A menudo, la opción de tener una tarjeta del intérprete consultor para entregar puede complementarse con escribir nuestro nombre (sin más datos) de puño y letra sobre esa tarjeta. De ese modo, el interesado que quedó satisfecho con nuestro trabajo puede mencionar nuestro nombre al intérprete consultor. En general, los intérpretes consultores no tienen inconveniente con este proceder. Después de todo, al cliente seguramente le sucede como a nosotros cuando damos con un buen vendedor en una tienda, o una buena colorista en la peluquería - en nuestra siguiente visita querremos ser atendidos por la misma persona que se ganó nuestra confianza.

Hello Vicky,

I am on and off ask for a business card when I am working in a team organized by another colleague. I always say that I have not any. If the consultant interpreter is at the venue, I put both prospective client and consultant interpreter in contact. If the recruiting interpreter isn't there, I often end up with the client's business card in may hand. Sometimes, I tell the prospective client to give me his/her busniess card and I tell the client that the recruiting interpreter will contact him/her. Afterwards, I get in contact with the organizing colleague and explained what happened and I send him/her the business card and details so s/he can take care of it. I feel that on an assignment I represent the organizing interpreter in every aspect and I must be loyal and fair to him/her. I expect the same the other way round. As Santiago puts it: the nice collateral is that this way you get brownie points with the recruiting colleague.

I don't go into explaining why I don't give the client my business card. Too much explanations and the client does not really understands, I fully agree with Almute

Estoy de acuerdo en NO entregar nuestra tarjeta personal en las situaciones en las que somos contratados por otro colega. Lo que justifica y explica este comportamiento es que debemos tener siempre presente que NUESTRO CLIENTE es el colega/intérprete consultor que nos contrató y a él/ella debemos lealtad.

...failing your 1st alternative, the third would also do at a pinch: my advice would be NEVER to give out your own card if you're not the recruiting interpreter.

These days, almost everybody has an Inet page, so giving out the recruiter's url could also be a way out, best if on something provided for the purpose, say a bookmark or some such... if you don't have any on you, perhaps someone else on the team does, you could promise to get back to the contact in question later during the conference.

Getting the third party's card and making sure the recruiter gets it will close the loop... AND get you brownie points with the recruiting colleague :-).

A menudo, la opción de tener una tarjeta del intérprete consultor para entregar puede complementarse con escribir nuestro nombre (sin más datos) de puño y letra sobre esa tarjeta. De ese modo, el interesado que quedó satisfecho con nuestro trabajo puede mencionar nuestro nombre al intérprete consultor. En general, los intérpretes consultores no tienen inconveniente con este proceder. Después de todo, al cliente seguramente le sucede como a nosotros cuando damos con un buen vendedor en una tienda, o una buena colorista en la peluquería - en nuestra siguiente visita querremos ser atendidos por la misma persona que se ganó nuestra confianza.