Sofia Riesco (Transperfect, Paris)

A student from Swansea University recently completed an internship in our TransPerfect office in Paris in Translation Project Management. She worked on translation projects from beginning to end, looked for corresponding linguists in the database, negotiated with freelance translators and proofreaders, final-eyed deliverable documents against the source to make sure the product met the client’s needs, ensured deadlines were met with linguists according to projects, prepared job folders and files for translation and issued purchase orders for linguists. The intern certainly exceeded all expectations. During her internship, she learnt fast, was always willing to help the team and took into account all the feedback given to her in order to improve. She was therefore not only supporting the Global team on placement and communication with the linguists but also handling her own small projects from beginning to end (normally we let interns help with projects, but not manage whole project lifecycles by themselves, but this intern did so well we trusted her with her own projects). We intend to make the student an offer of employment as a Project Coordinator.