ESCAE Amiens, France
I come across this from a resume yesterday. What kind of education/ qualification is this? One of my colleagues speaks French, but couldn't help. Can French readers please help?
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2 comments:
Hi, Anna Maria,
I am Chinese backgrounded graduate student studying in France. I am quite sure ESCAE is short for École Supérieure de Commerce d'Amiens (should mean Amiens Superior School of Commerce) whose web lies here: http://www.supco-amiens.fr/fr/index.php. Only French version, like most of the other French schools unfortunatly.
Since I am also writing English Resumes for jobs outside France, I had doubt in putting my school name. If I write "école centrale de Paris" in resumes, you may be confused, however "Central School of Paris" will not lead you to the website of my school if you google. The International Dpt of my school told me not to tranlate but just put it in French and they assumed that everyone (comprising ones don't speak French) should know what it means. Firstly I was persuaded because even in the English website of my school, they put the French name without translation and the English meaning was quite easy to guess (is that so?). Well, after reading your post, I really want to be confirmed if it is the case. Should I put the English School name on my CV (followed by "a leading French engineering school")or just a French name?
Looking forward to your post and many thanks in advance.
Xinyi
Dear Xinyi
I certainly respect your school's recommendation of not translating the school name. However we have to be careful using abbreviations. While many people understands INSEAD or MIT, not everyone understands ESCAE. If you write École Supérieure de Commerce d'Amiens, it is easy to make a guess. People with some basic European language knowledge would be able to guess. But what puzzles me is the abbreviation.
Considering readers who might not read your language, I would suggest to write your original school name and followed by a statement like: "study commerce at secondary level" or "obtain bachelor's degree in commerce".
However for my candidate from a Chinese university, I would still consider translating the school name, because it would be really difficult for non-Chinese to make a guess.
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