Career Tip: What’s with the Titles?

How does it help your idea of self-worth if your job titles are VP-IT and BDE but you still lead a team of 2 and fix small bugs? Continue reading to get some career tips.

On the other side, there are scores of people with modest job titles but large responsibilities, budgets, teams, and in a position to make an oversized impact.

Some promotions come with a ‘designation change’ only – no raise, no additional responsibility, nothing. Just an ego-boost. These job titles don’t help in the long run.

Your title can be anything but look for what impact opportunities you have. That will help you in the future. An exaggerated title could actually go the wrong way. Your next org may be expecting some specific skills from you as a result of that title and you may not have earned those skills.

One Life. Live Boundless.

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