My Experience with Interviewing & Profiling

Before starting this project, I experienced some doubts about interviewing someone who is currently working in my field of study. I have never interviewed anyone for anything in the past, which made me feel scared and worried that I might fail to achieve and complete this task successfully. The process of finding the right person was a bit difficult at first as I had a few people in mind to interview for this assignment. Since the assignment required me interview someone who is currently working in the field I’m studying for, I decided to interview a person who currently works in one of the design firms I am planning to apply for after graduation. The design firm is located in my home country, which is why I felt at the time that the person that I picked would be the appropriate choice for me. The person I interviewed is a Graphic Designer named Sarah Al-Husseinan. She graduated a year ago and currently works at Tajalla Creative Agency located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 When I first started with the project, I wasn’t so sure about what type of questions would be appropriate to ask for my first interview. However, the struggle of coming up with interview questions was quickly resolved after my class peers and I participated in an activity where we had to all brainstorm ideas of questions that we thought was relevant to ask a person in an interview. This activity was extremely useful and gave me an idea on what questions would be applicable to ask in an interview.

Writing the profile after completing the interview was certainly the most complicated part of this assignment. Writing a profile about someone is a type of writing that I have never encountered in the past. All my English composition courses that I took before were focused on various writing genres such as narrative writing, journal entry, poetry and essays. Writing a profile about someone was my first and was very informative and beneficial for me at the same time. However, I mostly struggled with the writing process of the profile. The introductory paragraph was the easiest part for me, but when I began to write about the interviewee in detail, placing the interviewee’s quotes in the appropriate context was difficult for me. Thankfully, after continuous writing, I began feeling more comfortable with the genre and felt more confident in writing the profile in the appropriate manner.