Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

N+1

English translation:

Line manager

Added to glossary by Angie Taylor
Oct 22, 2012 16:41
11 yrs ago
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French term

N+1

Non-PRO French to English Bus/Financial Human Resources
I'm translating a HR document for the procedure for recruitment of personnel. There is a table with three columns "Etapes", "Contenus" and "Responsables". Under the "Responsables" column, in one of the boxes it just says "N+1 du demandeur". I can't provide any more context than that.
Proposed translations (English)
5 +7 Line manager
3 Level/grade + 1
Change log

Oct 22, 2012 16:50: mchd changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Nov 5, 2012 08:49: Angie Taylor Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (3): Catharine Cellier-Smart, Tony M, mchd

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Discussion

Tony M Oct 23, 2012:
@ Moira Thanks! I just searched for 'siphon' and got 30 results at once. You may need to check your settings; in particualr, I systematically check the "also search reverse language pair" box.

I tend to prefer googling using 'KudoZ' as a search term rather than the 'ProZ.com' domain as it helps avoid quite a bit of noise if some term has at some point appeared in other forums on ProZ.com, as occasionally happens. Of course, it does sometimes throw up thing in the 'wrong' language pair — but even that sometimes proves helpful for further research!
MoiraB Oct 23, 2012:
@ Tony instead of KudoZ, use site:proz.com + "your search term" for a more targeted result. I get no results with the "new, improved" search facility on ProZ, with or without spaces. In fact, I just searched for the word "siphon" (in previous question above) and got zilch. Something very wrong there....
Angie Taylor Oct 22, 2012:
Eoghan Strange because it seems that whether I do it with or without spaces between the characters, I get 51 results. They are results for 'N' and '1', so some for no. 1 and some for n-1, but plenty are for N+1 too. I don't know why it doesn't work for others.

Proposed translations

+7
5 mins
Selected

Line manager

This has come up plenty of times before, eg.

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/human_resources/...

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Note added at 6 mins (2012-10-22 16:47:46 GMT)
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Line manager or whatever the equivalent term is in the organisation in question.
Note from asker:
Thanks, I have searched for it and nothing comes up when I enter it
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : Though when I did a KudoZ search (because I knew we'd had it before) I got no hits. I wonder why that was.
1 min
No gaps between the characters :)
agree Tony M : The new advanced search facility is better, but if in doubt, Google "[my term]" + KudoZ, for example / AKA "immediate superior", though that may not be terribly politically correct these days!
3 mins
Thanks Toy
agree Pauline Teale
5 mins
Thank you
agree Emma Paulay
1 hr
Thank you
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne
4 hrs
Thanks Nikki
agree Daniel Weston
6 hrs
Thank you
agree Manoj Chauhan
13 hrs
Thank you
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
6 mins

Level/grade + 1

I assume the "n" stands for "niveau". So it's referring to the applicant's immediate line manager/supervisor.
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