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This analysis focuses on the point at which trainees and training systems converge, considering the former more than the latter as the territory of vocational training by alternation. Based on two previous studies showing on the one hand, that the training system collides with the trainees’ logic of performance (study 1) and, on the other, that every trainee substitutes his own itinerary for the one prescribed by the training system (study 2), we examined in detail the manner in which the self is constructed. The hermeneutic analysis of the meanings given by the trainees’ to themselves in the context, and that they give to the context, during interviews of 59 supervisors undergoing training by alternation (study 3), allowed us to identify four types of self-construction: mastery, appropriation, integration and empowerment.