Continuing education and recognition

Einschlägig is the word that sorts applicants in this field, and it leads a second life a learner should know about before putting it in a letter. In a job advert or a funding rule it means belonging to the field in question: einschlägige Berufserfahrung is experience in the same line of work, and einschlägige Literatur is the reading that goes with a subject. Carried into a court report, the very same sense becomes an accusation. Er ist einschlägig vorbestraft says a man already has a conviction for the same kind of offence, and der Polizei einschlägig bekannt says the police know him for it. Nothing in the word has changed; only the field has. So when a recognition authority asks for einschlägige Nachweise, it wants papers from the trade you are applying in, and nothing about a criminal record is implied.