Softshoe (Human Resources)

Portuguese translation: Here: software / Idiomatic: dancing around

03:02 Mar 7, 2002

English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources / Human Resources

English term or phrase: Softshoe (Human Resources)

Alguém saberia me dizer se Softshoe é apenas o nome de um software de seleção de pessoal ou se o software recebeu esse nome em função de alguma expressão idiomática que foge ao meu conhecimento?

contexto: Processo de seleção interna de funcionários: "POSITION POSTED VIA SOFTSHOE".

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Márcio Badra KudoZ activity Questions: 58 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 732 Brazil
Local time: 17:45

Portuguese translation:Here: software / Idiomatic: dancing around

Explanation:
Hi Marcio:
Good question.

Softshoe is a type of dance contrasting with tap dancing. Tap makes a noise, softshoe doesn't.

Figuratively, softshoe means to dance around a situation, you know, like "jogo de cintura".

Sometimes, though, a cigar is just a cigar.

Alhough the original name of the software may have had some metaphoric connotation, now it is just the name of hiring software.

Hope this helped.

Selected response from:

Theodore Fink
Local time: 16:45

Grading comment

Thanks a lot, Theodore. You gave me the insight I was looking for. It seems that "softshoe" is similar to "luvas de pelica".
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Software

José Antonio Azevedo

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Here: software / Idiomatic: dancing around

Theodore Fink

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peer agreement (net): +2

Software

Explanation:
Márcio, em todos os sites que procurei encontrei o termo Softshoe citado apenas como um software de recrutamento.

Reference: http://www.resumix.com/solutions/softshoe.html

José Antonio Azevedo
Brazil
Local time: 17:45
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PRO pts in category: 4

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Here: software / Idiomatic: dancing around

Theodore Fink
Local time: 16:45
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks a lot, Theodore. You gave me the insight I was looking for. It seems that "softshoe" is similar to "luvas de pelica".

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