Postuler, succursale

Bonjour Gee !

 

Thanks for your message. I must admit that my native French colleagues and I had to look this point up, and here's why: nowadays, in colloquial French, people never use "postuler" as a transitive verb, but use "postuler pour" and "postuler à" instead. We even asked our family and friends who confirmed they would never use "postuler [quelque chose]".
Of course, you are correct that L'Académie Française recommends the transitive usage, however here I think we are definitely in one of those occurrences where the Académie is behind the curve of modern colloquial usage becoming the new norm :)

 

However, as it is still "technically" correct, I've now updated the question accordingly, but do keep in mind that you should favour the intransitive options when speaking to French people ;) 

I hope that's helpful!

Bonne journée ! 

Hi Alan & Gee, 

I have checked the exercise and the translation of one of our foreign branches is translated by -

une de nos succursales/agences à l'étranger 

which doesn't appear to be wrong to me although I would say that 'agences' in business terms is used for branches of banks normally.

From my understanding, the difference between 'filiale' ( subsidiary) and 'succursale' (branch) is the same as in English.

A large company will have branches ( with the same name normally) in different parts of the same country or abroad. They are a whole and the same company.

https://www.legalstart.fr/fiches-pratiques/holding/filiale-et-succursale/#ancre1 

A parent company ( société mère) may have subsidiaries ( filiales) which will have different names and entities. The following wiki page gives the example of Daimler AG -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_m%C3%A8re#:~:text=%C3%80%20titre%20d%27exemple%2CDaimler,m%C3%A8re%20de%20sa%20filiale%20Free. 

There are very different legal and fiscal implications.

Hope this helps!