Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation
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Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation
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#2...patiently waiting for a job title with emoji.
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#3...patiently waiting for a job title with emoji.
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#4> So when a pet supplies company advertises for a “time ninja” instead of a human resources administrator or office clerk, we need to ask why.
Why not question "human resources" too? I wonder what came first. This term or the way HR handles people as faceless commodities.
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#5> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real.
I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology. Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful, this one is only obscure if you're unfamiliar with the specific industry.
I'm fairly certain there are perfectly legitimate job titles in other industries "75% of British adults" aren't familiar with. That's okay, they don't have to be.
If it was "75% of British technical project managers", I would be far more concerned. A job opening for a "Scrum master" likely isn't an entry level position for someone with no prior knowledge of Scrum -- and if that career path is interesting to you, you'll likely already know what Scrum is.
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#6Is it ironic that the author is Sir Cary Cooper, who received knighthood at a birthday celebration for the Queen? It's an honor, but with so many knights running around, hasn't that title become a bit ludicrous itself?
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#7Maybe, just maybe, it's a reaction to all that's wrong with job titles - https://stackstreet.com/4-problems-with-job-titles/
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#8> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real. I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology . Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful,…
To be fair, I'm in tech, have known actual "scrum masters", and still don't think it's a real job title.
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#9I find it quite the offensive take on tech jobs.
Arguing that "scrum master" should have a more general name is one of the stupidest things I've read. It's based on a methodology and has a specific meaning. Asking 1000 random people what pi is might result in them defining the food so we might as well change the name of either one. If you don't know what scrum master is you should not be applying for it anyway.
There is no problem with tech job titles. If anything it's a solution. If you don't want to work for a company as a ninja then the environment is probably not the right fit.
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#10Can we stop with the self-aggrandizing CxO titles while we are at it?
I've had someone introduce themselves as a CTO of a company that has 4 people. How many other technical officers are there for you to be the chief of them?
It sounds ridiculous.