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I work for a small tech company that sells ID scanning systems to bars & nightclubs. I assemble and pack all our system orders, take care of all technical support (on call 24h) as well as handle all information requests from police & law enforcement. I've been here for about 4 months and am finally getting business cards. I've been told I can come up with my own title, but am lost for terms. "Technical Support Specialist" comes to mind, but that doesn't really describe what I actually do. Within the company I'm called Batman, because our support phone is referred to as the Batphone. Probably not the right thing to put on a business card. What are some of your job titles, do they actually describe what you do? Is it a waste of time to put thought into a job title?
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Apr 16, 2014 22:57
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Batman is good. It'll help you get a job as Superman later on.
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Apr 16, 2014 23:08
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Systems Management Executive
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Apr 16, 2014 23:23
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Basic Baby Bitch (Trainee).
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Apr 16, 2014 23:57
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You dont have a job thats important enough to have a real title and "make up your own" is their way of telling you that so you might as well just loving put batman
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Apr 17, 2014 00:07
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Peon. If you've been there a year, Senior Peon. And if you've been there the longest, Senior Executive Peon.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:12
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Assistant Peon.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:14
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I just moved this to BFC to help you get a legitimate answer.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:21
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Is there a job you want in the future, or a career path you want to be on? I think that will determine what you should call yourself. For example, it would be a stretch to call yourself a Technical Business Analyst, but that might help you get an actual job as a business analyst for some software company down the line. Basically, I'd consider picking a title similar to the title you'd expect to go with a job you'd like to have, at a different company, hoping that having that on my resume would get me in for an interview somewhere. Then I'd have to prove myself to the person responsible for hiring, rather than a checkbox-ticking HR person, but it's better than not having an interview at all. Basically, I'd try to take advantage of another company's HR department's ignorance of what my desired position actually entails, and hope that a similar-sounding name and not completely unrelated experience would be enough to move past that first filter. EB Nulshit fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 00:31
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I agree with EB. Use it to promote yourself in the future. Since you asked my business card says "senior engineer" and I engineer for a living. I am the youngest engineer of 9 in my group (27 years old) which makes me laugh at my title.
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Apr 17, 2014 02:34
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How long have you been there? Are you able to search for the original job posting? They had to have put some kind of title or description. If you really have to make it up yourself, though, going off your description you sound like a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy there, so "Operations Specialist" would be a good one to cover all your bases. If you want to emphasize the technical aspects I think you can certainly go with "Technical Support Specialist" if you like. The good thing about being able to come up with it yourself is that you can change/tailor the job title to better suit whatever position you're applying for in the future, so you don't actually have to settle on just one. (Amusing anecdote: when a recruiter pitched me to a company for a data analyst position, before she submitted my resume she went through and added "__ /Data Analyst" to all of the listed titles in my job history that she could even remotely get away with).
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Apr 17, 2014 18:23
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Technical Support Specialist sounds pretty good to me. At my company we have a position of technical people that are responsible for taking our products to customers for demonstrations, as well as organizing and setting up product at trade shows. They field support requests (to a certain extent) as well. We call them "Technical Product Engineers." The interactions you have with law enforcement, is it from a perspective of them looking for data, or are you figuring out regulations that you have to abide by in creating your product? You could be a Regulations Analyst, too.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:52
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Milo Pollywalter posted:I work for a small tech company that sells ID scanning systems to bars & nightclubs. I assemble and pack all our system orders, take care of all technical support (on call 24h) as well as handle all information requests from police & law enforcement. Senior Hardware Installation Technician of Special Technological Approval of Identification for Nightclubs. That's pretty long, so you'd probably want to make it an acronym.
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Apr 18, 2014 00:15
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Logistics and Customer Support Six-Sigma Black Belt
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Apr 18, 2014 02:24
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--I got way too into this. Sorry.-- My title (Analyst) is pretty unambiguous and generally ubiquitous among banks worldwide: the position at which poo poo naturally comes to rest after a long roll downhill. It's actually remarkable everyone agrees on that because every shop has their own take on the rest of the hierarchy Since chain-of-command is kind of a big deal, titles are shown pretty much anywhere you can find someone's name. Even my assistant goes by "Expense Reporting Expert," which may be a misnomer given her astonishingly consistent inability to accurately report my expenses. Not so for analysts; we haven't had an official title since at least the Crisis. We're the only guys in even remotely client-facing positions who get business cards without titles. The space for title in the intranet Phonebook is just blank--pulls directly from the employee database, which feeds the utilities we use to populate contact lists, presentations, etc. We do control our e-mail signatures, in which the defiant insertion of our titles has remained a topic of debate (50/50, I don't). I realized 6 months or so in that it wasn't a case of "tech people / HR haven't gotten around to it yet." It's another subtle reminder that until you hit Associate, nobody gives a poo poo who you are, what you think or which parent's birthday dinner you're missing to work late. It's not like we've got super lame titles--"Communications Hardware Support II" and so on--but for whatever reason we've been deemed unworthy, artificially separated from the rest of the corporate finance hierarchy. It's the job telling us that no matter how many all-nighters or long weekends you spend at your desk, without an MBA you are a non-entity. --And yeah, that's my rant on titles.--
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Apr 18, 2014 23:34
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I like the ambiguity of not providing titles. We technically have them but almost never use them. It lets you know how head-up-rear end other people are about titles.
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Apr 19, 2014 16:29
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Custom Unit Nightclub Technitian
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Apr 20, 2014 09:10
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I like the ambiguity of not providing titles. We technically have them but almost never use them. It lets you know how head-up-rear end other people are about titles. This is how it is where I work. If someone gets your card, it's because you've handed it to them, and as such they should already know why they would contact you, giving them a business card is just a formality.
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Apr 20, 2014 09:13
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Operations and/or Logistics Manager for some context: Our Operations Manager is in charge of customer support, like the final boss who you go to when some customer issue is literally unsolvable without some kind of management exception, but doesn't deal with day-to-day stuff. He's also in charge of making sure everything gets everywhere it's supposed to and fix those issues if his employees don't. If he didn't have employees, he'd still be the Ops Manager. Beast of Bourbon fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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Apr 22, 2014 18:48
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When I was interning as a hardware/software desginer for a small (10ish people) prototyping company I took the title "Head of Sattelite Launch Division". Because even as an intern in college I knew if you got to pick your own title you where a scrub.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:31
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Ahh, so this is where that thread went. Thanks for all the replies! my new title is Batman SHITSTAIN.
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May 15, 2014 17:00
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Milo Pollywalter posted:Ahh, so this is where that thread went. Thanks for all the replies! my new title is Batman SHITSTAIN. Glad we were able to help!
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May 15, 2014 21:39
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I look at my time sheet for my rostered times I'm meant to work and no joke the title next to my name says "Receiving Dock". I consider myself though a Dock supervisor. Making sure the store is filled with product for the customers to buy...
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