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Re: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume

Subject: Re: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:31:13 -0800


Sean Brierley wrote:

I honestly think such humor should stay off a document of first impression, such as a resume.


I think it depends on the use. If you don't often represent your company to others, there's not much harm in it. For example, at one company, the web master, arguing that "web master" was "so 1996" asked that his job title on his business card read "Zopista," since he used Zope to build the back end of the company site. Since he never represented the company in public, there was no reason to turn down his request. But if he had been a product manager or a company officer,it might have risked creating a bad impression. If nothing else, others like to know what level of access a person represents.

Another reason not to use joke titles is that the joke gets old quickly - and you still have 500 cards to get rid of before you can change it.

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