CVs

[SnapFrakkleAndPop]

Posting this here because I figure people will have experience of this problem!

When writing a CV do you translate:

everything?
the name of a course but not the institution?
the name of the course and the institution?
the name of the organisation you worked for if the acronym is different (e.g. NATO/OTAN) or if it's a government department?

If you translate the name of a course which doesn't have a direct equivalent like a Masters to a Masters do you make it clear that it's an approximation? Or do you use the name the course is known by in the target language (it's a professional course but country specific)?

Obviously job descriptions are translated and descriptions of what you did on the courses are but I'm wondering about the protocol for Proper Nouns.

Not for me BTW, am doing BIL a favour but he needs his CV into English (he's written, I'm proofing), and he has French and Dutch qualifications which he's translated into English but it looks very odd to me, howeve that could be because he's transliterated Ecole des mines as 'mine school'.

I would go for the clunky but explicit option: put the original language and then where necessary, in parentheses, write (equivalent to...) or give a short explanation and the relevant equivalent/approximation.

That doesn't seem to take up too much extra space :) He's given good summaries about what he did at each of the places he studied and what the qualifications are, it was just translating the name of the insitution which looked bizarre.

Translating the name w/o putting the original might mean that if s.one reading the CV wanted info on that institution then they'd not know what it was actually called. And, in the case of "mine school", they'd get a v odd idea of what the place was (!).

Last few days are dragging but DH is currently in your neck of the woods so baby is banned from arriving! I'm finding all sorts of fun projects to keep my mind off things...like going over BIL's CV!