Reflection on the Profile

Hi everybody!

This week’s project was to interview a person in our field or who has the job we want to get after school, and make a profile about him/her. I thought that project was very interesting because I had the opportunity to talk to someone who was doing exactly what I want to do, and I was very excited!

I interviewed Marie-Pierre Lavoie, she is a translator in Canada. At first I was not sure who I was going to interview because I did not know anybody who was a translator. My former boss told me that his mom was a translator so I was going to interview her and she directed me to Marie-Pierre Lavoie because she retired a while ago and destroyed her résumé.

So, the first step was completed. The day of the interview came and the professor told us the interview should last 15 to 30 minutes. We talked for an hour! I was so excited that I asked more questions than the ones I wrote. It was very interesting to know more about the profession, I do not feel like professors gave me enough information about translation and the career I could have in the field. She told me about softwares, how it works when you are freelancing, and she gave me advice on how to enter the field but also on a translating program in Canada.

I was not expecting the profile to be so hard to write. It sounded very simple but I just could not figure out where to start. She said so many interesting things to me that I was not sure I could include it all. The hardest part was the introduction, I wanted to start on something powerful but I ended up describing her. The rest of the profile came pretty naturally and easily though. I tried to make it look like the profiles we saw in class and the ones I used to read in magazines when I was a teenager. So I tried to be as creative on the things surrounding the profile as possible. It was definitely a very type of writing compared to the ones I usually do in my other classes. I mostly write essays and they are pretty straight forward; you have to write about a text, state your claim and then analyse it. For the profile you have to describe someone, and it is harder than it sounds.

I think the easiest part in the profile was the quotation. I had a lot of fun writing the little boxes around the profile too, I included fun facts because not everybody would know or understand some facts stated in the profile; and I added a detailed career section on the side so that people can see her accomplishment even though I am not talking about all of them.

In the end, I learned a lot about my dream job and I am so glad I had the opportunity to talk to Marie-Pierre Lavoie. It got me even more excited and set up new goals for me.

If you want to read the profile, just click on the link below!

That’s all folks!

Signing out