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French: "un renforcement des moyens humains"

English translation: expanding the workforce







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French term or phrase:"un renforcement des moyens humains"
English translation:expanding the workforce
Entered by:Ysabel812
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French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
French term or phrase: "un renforcement des moyens humains"
Any better way to say this than "new hires?"
Ysabel812
France
Clarification request(s) and response
juliebarba: 12:43pm Jan 3, 2008: Depends on the greater context - you need to post it + the sentence please. Thanks
Ysabel812: 12:49pm Jan 3, 2008: Context - This company is talking about continuing development in 2008. "Cela se fera tout d'abord par un renforcement des moyens humains, un challenge important pour les responsables pays de XXX, mais aussi par le biais d'acquisitions sur lesquelles nous travaillons déjà."
Thanks!

expanding the workforce
Explanation:
another option
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CherryPie
France
Note from asker to answerer
I decided to go with this one. I like "expand" as well. Thanks to everyone for your contributions.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4expanding the workforceCherryPie
4 +2strengthening/reinforcement of human resourcesmistahara
4building human resource capacitiesFrancis Marche
4"a reinforcement of the staff"Vittorio Ferretti


  

Answers

8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
expanding the workforce

Explanation:
another option

CherryPie
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
I decided to go with this one. I like "expand" as well. Thanks to everyone for your contributions.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree writeaway: or even expand human resources. Expand sounds like the right word.
29 mins
  -> TY & Happy New Year!
agree xxxCMJ_Trans: boosting the workforce
35 mins
  -> TY & Happy New Year!
agree Sandra Petch
55 mins
  -> TY & Happy New Year!
agree juliebarba: agree with W/A too. Although not boosting as that could also have other meanings....
1 hr
  -> TY & Happy New Year!
disagree Vittorio Ferretti: "expand" implies only "more quantity" and excludes "more quality"
1 hr
agree katsy
2 days4 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
strengthening/reinforcement of human resources

Explanation:
"strenghtening of human resources" is a common term in HR strategies

"Development and strenghtening of human resources" - a standard phrase

http://www.google.ro/search?hl=ro&as_qdr=all&q=+%22strengthe...

mistahara
Romania
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Michael H G
6 mins
  -> Thank you, Islander!
agree Assimina Vavoula
6 mins
  -> Thanks, Assimina!
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"a reinforcement of the staff"

Explanation:
an option

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-01-03 15:04:11 GMT)
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For julebarba: funny, in my Google display, all the entries of the first page are "reinforcement of the staff" hits; the first one is from WIPO

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_pbc_9/wo_pbc_9...

Vittorio Ferretti
Germany
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral juliebarba: I don't think this works in English.That has no meaning - that's the number of hits combined for each word. I just looked and couldn't see an appropriate example on the first pages at all
1 hr
  -> it works in 34,000 Google hits
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1 day6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
building human resource capacities

Explanation:
Over 700 ghits for this one.

The "capacity-building" thing used ad nauseam in corporate literature is "renforcement des capacités" in French. That's standard glossary stuff. The term is ubiquitous.

"moyens" and "capacités" are synonymous in this type of context.

Francis Marche
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral rkillings: One hopes they're after capabilities rather than mere capacity.
1 day3 hrs
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