Hindi or English? Getting the language right for a Delhi application

Delhi corporate hiring runs in English and an English resume is correct for the large majority of roles. But central government correspondence is bilingual by rule, and a real set of Delhi positions expects Hindi.

Sending English where Hindi is expected marks a candidate as unfamiliar with the institution. Sending machine-translated Hindi is worse, and the sender cannot see why.

Where Hindi is genuinely expected

• Central government and PSU applications, where the proforma is bilingual
• Rajbhasha and official language positions specifically
• Hindi media, publishing and broadcasting
• Teaching posts in Hindi-medium institutions
• Field and community roles across the Hindi belt

For these, a Hindi edition demonstrates you can work in the language the job is conducted in, which no English claim can establish.

Why machine translation is visible

Hindi official register — the vocabulary of government correspondence — is specific and largely Sanskritised. Translation software produces colloquial or literary Hindi that reads as wrong to anyone who works in that register daily.

Professional and technical terms are the second issue. Much Hindi professional writing retains English terms, and translating them produces words nobody in the field uses.

Devanagari typesetting is not automatic

Hindi runs 15 to 20 per cent longer than English and its matras sit above and below the line. A layout that fits one page in English usually does not in Hindi, and tight line height clips the vowel marks.

Legacy Kruti Dev files are also not Unicode: text that looks right on your machine may be unreadable to the recipient and unsearchable in any database.

How a proper bilingual pair works

Matched structure across both editions so a panel reading either sees the same career in the same order, with the Hindi written in the register the institution actually uses rather than converted from the English.

How Content Factory writes it

Content Factory writes both editions in the same building. Our Hindi writers work in the official register professionally, and the Hindi edition is proofed independently rather than checked against the English.

We convert legacy Kruti Dev material to Unicode before typesetting, which is a step most candidates do not know is necessary until a file arrives unreadable.

And we advise honestly: for most Delhi corporate applications you do not need a Hindi edition, and we will say so rather than sell a second document.