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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Quereinsteiger

English translation:

lateral entry (career changers)

Added to glossary by Siegfried Armbruster
Sep 3, 2008 09:30
15 yrs ago
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German term

Quereinsteiger

German to English Bus/Financial Human Resources
Ausbildung
Proposed translations (English)
3 +9 lateral entry (career changers)
4 +1 Someone who comes from a different professional or educational background
4 someone with lack of experience (or inexperienced) in the job he applies for
3 +1 someone who enters [education] by an unusual route
3 someone who changes his course of education from one to another, where they are usually not related
References
Muret-Sanders: Quereinsteiger m; -s, -,...
Change log

Sep 4, 2008 11:58: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"

Jan 5, 2009 14:02: Siegfried Armbruster Created KOG entry

Discussion

TonyTK Sep 4, 2008:
Just in case you're not sure how to do a search in the database: if you move your cursor over the "Kudoz" thingy at the top of the page, you should get a drop-down menu. Click on "Terminologiesuche auf Proz.com" (at least that's how it works on my screen)
TonyTK Sep 3, 2008:
This has already been asked lots of times. Try a terminology search.

Proposed translations

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lateral entry (career changers)

The Licensure Section of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is pleased to assist candidates for lateral entry with information on how to ...
www.ncpublicschools.org/licensure/lateral/ - 19k

Be-Lufthansa.com / Entry Options / Lateral entry ... lateral entry career changers from the fields of natural sciences, social sciences or humanities. ...
www.be-lufthansa.com/en/entry-options/lateral-entry/ - 20k -

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Lateral Entry Program : The lateral entry option allows eligible students to contract into the Advanced Course at the time they are academic juniors, ...


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It is also used in the UK:

Lateral Entry. 17. Whilst lateral entry already happens between UK police forces, section. 45 of the 2000 Act provides the basis for a wider degree of ...
www.nio.gov.uk/police_(northern_ireland)_act_2000_-_review_... -

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldhansrd/t...

20 Mar 2007 : Column GC164

Northern Ireland, commonly known as the Patten report. This report made a number of recommendations on policing in Northern Ireland, including the need to address the religious imbalance within the police service so that it is representative of the society that it polices. It recommended that all candidates, either as police officers or support staff, who wished to join the Police Service of Northern Ireland and who reached a specified standard of merit in the selection procedure should be placed in a pool from which one-half of those appointed would be Catholic and one-half non-Catholic. This arrangement became known as 50:50 recruitment and is in place today for all trainee police officer recruitment campaigns and directly recruited support staff where six or more similar posts are being filled.

The report also recommended that Catholic police officers from Northern Ireland serving in the police service elsewhere, particularly at more senior ranks, should be identified and encouraged to apply for positions in the Northern Ireland police. This arrangement is commonly known as “lateral entry”.



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Specific exercises will be run to encourage members of ethnic minorities with successful careers in other professions to apply for lateral entry to the ...
services.salford.gov.uk/solar_documents/SRSC10010505.DOC
Peer comment(s):
agree sylvie malich (X)
4 mins
agree Nicole Schnell
16 mins
agree GET ENERGY (X)
17 mins
agree transatgees : lateral entrant
22 mins
agree Julia Lipeles
1 hr
neutral Helen Shiner : This is very much a US term and does not seem to be used in the UK, though that may not matter for your purposes, Unna./It is not used in education, which is what is under discussion here. We just change courses in the UK.
2 hrs
agree Elitsa Ch : Just bumped into this: "1.) Quereinsteiger (m) career changer; someone changing to a new profession without having a formal education on the new field. "
2 hrs
agree EC Translate
9 hrs
agree Sharon Moler
15 hrs
agree David Moore (X) : I suppose you might call me a "Quereinsteiger" into the translation field....?
1 day 1 hr
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+1
7 mins

Someone who comes from a different professional or educational background

Ref: Collins German-English Dictionary, fifth Edition, 2004
Peer comment(s):
agree Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
7 hrs
Thanks!
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someone with lack of experience (or inexperienced) in the job he applies for


he has a different professional background
Peer comment(s):
neutral Helen Shiner : That is probably a bit too negative, since they may be an inspirational candidate./also isn't this about training or education?
1 day 1 hr
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10 mins

someone who changes his course of education from one to another, where they are usually not related

Joins work from a different branch and is usually not trained in the new one.

In the sense of education, as you mention, he simply switches from one course to another (unrelated course).

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What further explanation can I give? A combination of all of these is correct and the term lateral entrant as you mention, Helen, is not used in the uk and unfamiliar to me (British citizen).
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+1
4 mins

someone who enters [education] by an unusual route

You'd have to give more context to get a more precise answer, but hope that helps for now.

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or part way through a term, or with a different set of qualifications/experience than usually prescribed.

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For career application: we do use 'career hopping'/'career hoppers', probably informally, though I have seen it used a term to differentiate between types of candidates in a formal sense.
Peer comment(s):
agree Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth : you could also call this a "non-traditional" student e.g.
2 hrs
Thank you, Antoinette-M.; I am struggling to find a standard term for the UK.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Muret-Sanders:
Quereinsteiger m; -s, -, Quereinsteigerin f; -, -nen; bes. POL., WIRTS. person who enters a career different from their educational background and qualification
© Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München
Peer comments on this reference comment:
agree Helen Shiner : Thing is, in the UK this happens so much more often than in Germany that we may not have thought of a term for it. We speak alot of second and third careers and are generally not as fixed to a set career path, as you will know, of course, writeaway!
1 hr
for some reason we are more open to career swings/changes.
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