Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Concurso Documental

English translation:

Qualifications based competition/procedure

Added to glossary by Ana Vozone
Dec 8, 2020 10:32
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Portuguese term

Concurso Documental

Portuguese to English Other Human Resources These are conditions for applying for an academic position
Abertura de Concurso Documental para Carreira de Docente.

This is part of the sentence where the term is used
Change log

Dec 9, 2020 15:27: Ana Vozone Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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Qualifications based competition/procedure

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agree Cláudia Pinheiro Pereira
50 mins
Obrigada, Cláudia!
agree Sergio Carré
1 hr
Obrigada, Sérgio!
agree Mario Freitas :
4 hrs
Obrigada, Mário!
agree Mark Robertson
20 hrs
Obrigada, Mark!
agree Maria da Glória Teixeira : concordo
6 days
Obrigada, Maria da Glória!
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30 mins

Competitive Examination

This is a pure guess. Concurso is term used in Spain referring to competitive exams taken for career judgeship. There are 2 types: Oposición Libre (Open Competitive Examination) and Concurso-Oposición (Competitive Examination with a merit assessment). Source: Rebecca Jower (Lexicon of SP-EN legal terminology)
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Competition on the basis of qualifications

This phrase seems to be more common. Google retrieved almost 35,000 search results: https://www.google.com/search?q="competition on the basis of...

Concurso: (exame) competition
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/portuguese-e...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2020-12-08 13:11:21 GMT)
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If placing “qualifications” first, a hyphen is required: qualifications-based competition. See “ Hyphen in a Compound Expression With a Noun and Past Participle” on this page: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/hyphen/
Example sentence:

* Such a requirement contravenes the very concept of a competition on the basis of qualifications, transforming it into a competition on the basis of tests...

* Mr Morina was one of the applicants for the internal competition on the basis of qualifications...

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