In the 21st century, ICT competence plays a major role in knowledge generation, information retrieval, extraction and processing. Under constantly increasing and changing requirements imposed by ongoing technological progress, translators should become even more proficient in the use of computer-assisted translation tools that address such issues as quality assurance and control, terminology management, pre-editing, post-editing, etc. ICT competence is also closely related to the development of such skills as creativity, logical reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving, decision making, networking, etc. The present paper aims to identify the main advantages of ICT competence in translator training.