Timeline for Should a resume be titled as if you have the position already?
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Jun 4, 2020 at 22:33 | comment | added | Relaxed | You know people don't write cover letters anymore? (and I am not joking, even if it varies by locale and profession obviously) | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 15:33 | comment | added | Therac | The claim of a role is meaningless if not accompanied by company name and employment dates. "CTO" in a startup is "Middle developer" in a big company. You're really not going to mislead anyone by whatever titles you mention outside of the "Experience" section. | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 11:20 | comment | added | nvoigt♦ | Hm, the title of my CV is „CV of Name“ or just "CV" when it's multi-page and the cover letter already made it clear it's me. Seemed obvious to me so I didn’t mention it. | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 11:06 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | My point is: a title on a resume would be your title (whether it's made up or not or whether it's just made to match the target job title is beside the point) and a title on a cover letter would be the target job's title. But this answer seems to imply they're one and the same. So either I'm misunderstanding what this answer is saying or the answerer believes the title on either a resume or a cover letter (possibly presented in a specific way) is not as I described above. Either way, a clarifying edit would be useful. | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 10:47 | comment | added | Flater | @NotThatGuy: Explicitly stating you've worked in that position when you haven't is fraudulent. However, there is nothing that says that a document title must invariably claim to be a professionally held title/role - and that distinction is exactly why this (imho intentionally misleading) document title is not technically fraudulent. | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 9:41 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | Where else on a resume do you put a job title, if not as one's own title or the title of any given job you've held? Most, if not all, resume templates I've seen puts the applicant's name as the primary title of the resume and some of them put a title underneath that (which carries a very strong implication of that title being the applicant's title). | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 8:08 | comment | added | nvoigt♦ | What I mean is nowhere but in the other answers does it say she is supposed to put the new job title as her job title. The other answers probably misunderstood the question. | |
Jun 3, 2020 at 7:30 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | Giving yourself a blatantly untrue title on your resume (e.g. putting it under your name) seems completely different from putting the title of the job you're applying for on the letter motivating why you should get that job (trying to write such a letter without that would be kind of awkward). Grouping the two into one seems misleading. If that's not what you meant, I would suggest editing to clarify. | |
Jun 2, 2020 at 19:40 | history | answered | nvoigt♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |