Wacky Job Titles
Any like this one on their cv ?
This week, I went for a position entitled Monumental Sales. Well, this one was literally that - sales support for memorials and monuments for an church office in Sydney's largest cemetary.
Anyone care to post similar examples ........
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Sean C
Experienced IT manager with strengths in infrastructure, databases, project management, and application development.
My wife used to be a Spectacular Specialist. Even in the out-of-home advertising industry, it was a unique title. (A "spectacular" is a special kind of billboard involving mixed elements such as scrolling tickers, video screens, animations, and 3D sculpture.)
Flash Ninja - for flash website specialists
Kevin C
Call Center Quality Specialist
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Chief Happiness Officer - Some company dealing with employee engagement
Business Head - not exactly sure what the guy did but I had to chase him for invoices
Guy T
Senior VP & General Manager EMEA at Jacada
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I once met a guy at a trade show whose name was Axel Bender and his job title translated to be Head of Corporate Steerage!
Manager, Ambiguity and Faculties
Clarification added October 17, 2007:
Appeared in local Dubai Paper I think it should have read Manager, Antiquities and Faculties
VP of Amigos Development
VP Title for a local Mexican restaurant Franchise
Sayeed C
Owner, cassim unlimited
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andrew
i saw the title
prime mentor prime mentor
he called himself prime mentor of his company also called prime mentor.
another that has puzzled me was the title andrew parker bowles (camillas first husband) had
"silver stick in waiting to the queen".
sayeed
I've got a business card of someone who calls himself 'Business Insultant'.
The idea behind this is his critical view on organisation and the way he communicates his thoughts...rather honest than polite..
Chief Judaism Officer - for a Rabbi I know
I joined a broadband service provider (briefly) who had a guy whose title was "Guru" on the directory and business card. He didn't last long. These days the appropriate title would have been "Software Engineering Lead". I think "Guru" might have went to his head..LOL!
Supero Hero, head of IT at Dennis Publishing, Maxim Magazine
Brian H
Director, Gardiner Centre, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University
I knew a person who had a business card with "Chief Marketing Guy" as his title.
Anja J
GM Branding & Communications at OKI Printing Solutions
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"Head Cheese" - the MD of a company selling property on the Moon or on Venus. No, I am not joking - neither about the title nore about the business (it was online, of course.)
Phil T
Editor at China Law & Practice (Euromoney)
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'Administration Administrator', seen in a local recruitment classified recently (check the link below if you don't believe me!)
I also remember hearing of a Portable Purchase Container Retrieval Specialist (the person who shunts shopping carts around the supermarket car park). This was probably a joke however.
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Ken had a very awesome redundant title and I would like for him to post it. In the world of IT titles are pretty common from company to company but Ken's was just funny.
Frank C
fcahoj@gmail.com | Human Resources Professional, Recruiting Expert, and Talent Management Strategist
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In sourcing resumes on Monster.com for an open Project Manager position I was trying to fill, my search brought up a resume with one of the most clever (and equally outlandish) job titles I have ever seen:
Vehicular Maneuvering Specialist.........this person was a valet at a restaurant, parking people's cars. Talk about a stretch. It made me laugh though.
My favorite is "Minister of Leaves", along with several others from the story of Republic of Tea, as told in the book by Bill Rosenzweig and Mel and Patricia Ziegler, "The Republic of Tea: Letters to a Young Zentrepreneur".
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Only mildly amusing, but my employer has a number of "Business Unit Managers".
Bearing in mind that companies tend to abbreviate titles......
Back many years ago, when I was a teenager. I was a busboy for a national restaurant. chain. My title was "General" (Not the military officer but General Duties) They did not have to state "...and other duties as assigned by manager" In addition to washing dishes I cleaned out the gutters and painted the stripes in the parking lot.
When I owned a small company, my position was called *.*
Also, that title was on my business cards.
Bernard R
Sr. Technical Recruiter at Networking Technologies & Support, Inc. {berobinson AT thinknts.com}
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Great question!
I read the resume of an entry level grad who's restaurant didn't employee waiters. He was instead an "Evening Event Sales Consultant". He also wore an apron and rolled up silver ware.
I do promotion through exhibitions; on my first business card I was called "fair manager".
Someone pointed out that this was nonsense: ever heard of a manager who is fair?
At a placement service I established a Department of Resumology to standardize and target submissions to our clients. I was generally introducesd as the "Senior Resumologist", but my businesss cards actually read "Doctor of Resumology" - an honorary degree, I assure you!
Farhad N
PMO @ Lloyds Banking Group, Registered PRINCE2™ Practitioner and MSP™ Advanced Practitioner, PMO/PPSO Professional
Chick Sexer – someone who inserts illuminating tool into baby birds to determine gender.
Google Maximizer
A person who help advertisers to get the best possible results from their campaigns.
James W
Business Development
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Title? I met the president of a PR firm who had "Coyote" as his title both in his email signature and business card.
I've also cold called a british man named Richard Head (true story)
One of my former client's IT manager was named Donald Duck
Back in the height of the dot-com nonsense a competitor appointed a "Manager of Fun, Happiness & Travel" - quote: "core responsibilities will be creating and implementing incentive and morale-boosting programs to ensure employees stay motivated and proficient." The company promptly almost tanked...
I've heard of company webmasters being titled "Duke of URL" (a female friend of mine was given the title "Duchess of URL" early in her career)
Clarification added October 17, 2007:
And as a sales engineer and sales process manager, I was once nick-named the "Process Nazi." An ops guy even ordered my business cards with that title. As I was in sales, I promptly ordered new cards - titling me as "Process General"
Kate T
Market & social quantitative researcher. CEO Tribe Research, Founder Tribal Tool-Kit
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I have a small market research business and we have 3 levels in the team. Internally the titles are: Explorer, Discoverer, and Change Driver. They are on our website team page but we don't have them on business cards. Also we use generic terms that relate to their roles.
