Job title inflation and fluffing
- by Amir Rezaei
When you work on the same project for a relative long time you get more experienced. You may also master many new technologies. Besides the coding you may also do what would classify other roles.
There is however one part of your career that may not get updated. That is your job title. It seems beside all technological hypes there is also job title hype.
It all depends on which company you work for. Many companies give employer better job titles because they want to keep them. The employee doesn’t change their job because the current title is much better, even if they would get better working condition and benefits if they changed their job.
When you consider changing you job you notice that your job title is kind of “outdated”. People with less skill have a much better title for their job than you. You may very well explain what you did on your project but the fact is that many employers go by the title.
So here are the questions:
Do you change your current title in your CV?
What are other options?
Here are some good readings regarding these phenomena:
Job title inflation
Job title fluffing
