Didier Fourcot Oct 12, 2016:

@Carla I don't think the tagline "professional translator" is the same as "Diplômée Supérieure de Banque":
1) Capitalization: French uses caps only when needed, and we may asusme a CV is properly proofread, so I understand "Supérieure de Banque" as meaningful
2) "Diplômé" has a meaning, and rather strict in France, not all schools are allowed to deliver a diploma of "ingénieur" for example, so "Diplômé xxx" used for example on nameplates of physicians, describes something

By the way did you look at other sources, professional profile of the person (LinkeIn, Viadeo...) or alumni, copainsdavant, etc?
For example:
http://dz.viadeo.com/fr/trombinoscope/trombinoscope/?schoolI...

Carla Selyer (asker) Oct 11, 2016:

Thanks Nikki. We are on the same page. :) Therein lies the difficulty.

Nikki Scott-Despaigne Oct 11, 2016:

Yes, I see what you mean. The person in drawing attention to the fact that they have "higher" or "advanced" professional banking qualifications. The individual might not even be pointing to one specific diploma but the fact that they generically have advanced banking qualifications. AS this is a tagline, the rest of the context probably points to level, but the tricky thing to avoid in rendering this is not to "translate" a title, or apparent title, which could be considered as attributing someone with a qualification or level of qualification they might not have... or indeed, selling them short if they have more.

On my French CV I have a tagline "diplômée en droit, langues, sciences et sciences humainess". It's not a qualifications, but a description of the fields in which I holds formal qualifications. It's a "read on" tag! From what you say, this is what this is about, with a pointer to professional banking qualis, which will mean something to bankers generally in terms of leve, no doubt.

Carla Selyer (asker) Oct 11, 2016:

Dear Nikki,
Yes, this is exactly the reason why I have described this as a statement below the person's description of their career focus. The CV starts off with the persons' name, below that is this tagline (Diplômée Supérieure de Banque). It is followed by the usual CV structure, such as personal details and the usual list of qualifications as per the standard CV (which should not generally be translated, I agree).
I believe that the structure is similar to what someone would say below their career statement, sort of a tagline. Unfortunately this is all the context I have to go by. There is no mention of a specific bank, as I stated, this is a tagline. However, further on in the CV, the person lists several international qualifications as I mentioned (France).

Nikki Scott-Despaigne Oct 11, 2016:

Context : which country, which bank Hello Carla,
Further details may be of use here. It would certainly help to indicate whether the country in which the qualification was obtained is in metropolitan France or in another French speaking country.
It is also likely that the name of the bank could help. One of my neighbours worked for the Crédit Agricole after leaving school and worked her way up to managerial level, all within internal official banking courses.
Finally, an indication of the date upon which the diploma in question was obtained may also help.

A reminder here too of the conventional practice of not translating names/titles of qualifications. They are country specific and even, as may be the case here, specific also to an institution or group of institutions. Some translation is sometimes required by clients, but transator have to ensure that in so doing, they are not indicating some level of equivalence which is just not a translator's role. ;-)

Example of the Credit Agricole internal qualifications I was describing earlier, governed by official texts nonetheless.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...

Carla Selyer (asker) Oct 11, 2016:

Below this, the person lists all of their qualifications. I think it is similar to when you write your name, below that you write "professional translator" or something like that.