Poll: How well does your ProZ.com profile picture represent you professionally? Người gửi thông tin lên tuyến đoạn: ProZ.com Staff
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I don’t have a photo on my profile, I have a logo. BPT started life in 1985 in Brussels as a small translator’s cooperative. More than 30 years later, some of us left to work for the EU Institutions, in 2017 I decided to move back to Lisbon for family reasons and we are no longer a cooperative. Now we are just two, I’m the “front of the house” and my associate deals with the “back of the house”. I still use the same logo as it appears in many places: business cards, website, invoic... See more I don’t have a photo on my profile, I have a logo. BPT started life in 1985 in Brussels as a small translator’s cooperative. More than 30 years later, some of us left to work for the EU Institutions, in 2017 I decided to move back to Lisbon for family reasons and we are no longer a cooperative. Now we are just two, I’m the “front of the house” and my associate deals with the “back of the house”. I still use the same logo as it appears in many places: business cards, website, invoices, letterhead, and envelopes. I don’t think a different logo or a good photograph would get us more work. That's not why clients come to us. I must say also that on the few occasions I have outsourced work to other translators I have been more interested in their qualifications to do the job than in their appearance. ▲ Collapse
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Nilton Junior 
Braxin
Local time: 06:41
Thành viên kể từ 2009
English to Portuguese
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My picture was taken casually by a friend at college. He wanted to test the camera on his new phone, asked me to look at him and that was it. Since you can see a keyboard and a project screen in the background, I thought it was good enough for my online profiles (I dislike taking pictures, mind you) and use it everywhere to this day.
I don't think a different picture would have changed anything for me, but I believe having any picture is better than having none at all.
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Thayenga
Đức
Local time: 07:41
Thành viên kể từ 2009
English to German
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| It's just right. | Jan 4, 2020 |
My photo, taken at the Grand Canyon, represents... the creative side of translation within.
[Edited at 2020-01-04 12:39 GMT]
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Kay Denney
Pháp
Local time: 07:41
French to English
I don't know that it's for me to say!
It's just a selfie of me in my living room, deliberately blurred to hide the wrinkles. I use it for all professional stuff, on LinkedIn and wherever else one is needed.
Clients don't need to know what I look like, so just anything that shows that I'm not an ogre will do, AFAIAC.
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Jan Truper
Đức
Local time: 07:41
English to German
| It couldn't be better | Jan 4, 2020 |
It was done years ago by a good friend of mine who was a cartoon & tattoo artist. Originally it served as a logo for the music production / composing business I had going at the time, but when I switched to the translation world, I slightly changed it by adding the flags.
[Edited at 2020-01-04 11:50 GMT]
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Angie Garbarino
Local time: 07:41
Thành viên kể từ 2003
French to Italian
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| Other: it is just me | Jan 4, 2020 |
Just me at my age now, it was taken last summer,
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but I invested in this professional photo to use for my business-related profiles
(my friends and family love it, but they may be bias )
[Edited at 2020-01-04 13:23 GMT]
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| It's pretty bad | Jan 4, 2020 |
I would like a better one, maybe of me sitting at my desk looking studious, but I just don't photograph well.
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| it's just fine | Jan 4, 2020 |
isn't it?
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Liena Vijupe
Latvia
Local time: 08:41
Thành viên kể từ 2014
French to Latvian
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I don't like taking photos of myself and don't have many of them, this is the one I use for professional purposes. It was taken on my birthday a couple years ago and originally included also a glass of champagne which got cropped out. I think it does a good job showing I have a face and also making me look nice, other than that I really don't know.
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Mario Freitas
Braxin
Local time: 03:41
Thành viên kể từ 2014
English to Portuguese
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| Freelancer working at home | Jan 5, 2020 |
Representing a freelancer who works at home in a small picture is a bit hard. A picture of myself wearing bermuda shorts and slippers and sitting by my desktop would certainly not be better than the picture I'm using right now.
[Edited at 2020-01-05 02:22 GMT]
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Muriel Vasconcellos
Hoa Kỳ
Local time: 22:41
Thành viên kể từ 2003
Spanish to English
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This is a rather informal photo. I used to use a professional photo but I got tired of it, and it's 8 years old. The current photo is 3 years old. I have cut my hair since then.
I'd like to use this opportunity to say that I really like to see people's photos, rather than cartoons or logos. I feel more connected.
[Edited at 2020-01-05 07:52 GMT]
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IrinaN
Hoa Kỳ
Local time: 00:41
English to Russian
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| You be the judge | Jan 7, 2020 |
I am pathetically non-photogenic. No, it's not about being much younger and ten times prettier in real life:-), it's just that most of the time I can't see and recognize my nature and my character, the way I feel about myself. 5-6 pictures over the years are all I really like, and all have been taken on the fly. At least this one at the launch pad of Antares rocket proves my hard labor as an interpreter. I'm 62 on it:-).
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