Job titles can be a slippery slope. In a previous blog, I discussed how employers can be stingy with the job title for a position, especially when it might mean having to pay the employee more based on additional responsibility. Similarly, job titles can be a slippery slope on resumes. Putting All of Your Experience… Read more »
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Job Titles can be Deceiving
Job titles can be deceiving in many ways. Sometimes, it’s your current boss / company who is pretty stingy with how job titles are structured. Other times, it is a simple lack of understanding about what the job entails that results in a poorly-created job title. So, what do you do when you hit either… Read more »
Define a Career Beyond Your Job Title
Define a career beyond your job title? Yes. But let’s be honest. Really, really honest. Does your current job title REALLY reflect the work you do? If yes, then you can probably skip this post. If not, then you should realize that human resource managers have a tough time with job titles simply because they… Read more »
The Dangerous Minefield of Modifying Previous Job Titles
True confession time: Did you ever ‘tweak’ a job title on your résumé because the title you worked under didn’t quite fit the work that you were doing? The truth is (and I’ve seen this a lot with clients as a résumé writer), many people have done at least some ‘creative job title engineering’ at… Read more »