In my quest for a new job I have found a lot of announcements with some funny job titles. Even in my last work I had a visit card as Software Engineer.
Let's think about it a little bit: what does a software engineer do? Well, in that case I used to be a programmer, as my collegues.
Right now I have at my side the book Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approach (Roger S. Pressman) and it has more than 800 pages. It is difficult to imagine that someone apply all these knowledge at the work, in a simple function. Let's take another kind of Engineer, like the Civil: some are specialist on bridges, other houses, other highways, and some other parts (I don't know - someone can help me on that).
Anyway the point here is: Software Engineering is a set of disciplines and as it you are supposed to work on one of these disciplines, not all of them. You could be a analyst, a designer, a programmer, or anything else.
So next time that someone ask your job or want to make a visit card for you, think about your title - remember that it shows your knowledge about yourself and your work.
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Well, what can I say? I usually consider someone who don´t really know what he does a "turtle".
Explaining: if you compare an enterprise with a tree, where the most important functions are located on the higher branchs, if you see a turtle on a branch, you can only conclude that someone put that turtle there, after all lturtles don´t climb on trees - I think everyone got the picture now.
BTW, nice blog. ;)
Nice post, good job!
It's important the initiative to write about something and share with others.
And talking about the job titles, it's a mess. In fact, a job title means different things in different places,
But the most important thing, as codename said, is the person must know what he/she is, even if the card description is something weird.
Well, first of all : great idea ! A blog is by far better than emails, and besides, you certainly have a lot to contribute with your knowledge.
Back to the topic... that´s a really interesting point. I´d say that just a few companies are really prepared for what I consider to be the ´next generation´ in human resources. That is ... profile instead of a plastered job title... According to your profile, a holistic professional x-ray that maps all your abilities ...not only the technical ones...after all , most of the time , the biggest issues are always on the ´human´ side...the communication..interaction... respect... ethics ... and a comprehensive set of qualities and limitations that can much better tell if you fit or not the organization values and needs . It´s almost as if it was a 3D job title...a holographic one...
Well ... while this approach is not yet part of our realities, let´s try to stick to honest job titles ,that can be less ego than function-oriented.
And... May the force be with U.
Let's face it: job titles are more related to ego (like Fabio said) than the job itself. I can say that people get stick with it an a nice title is something like a reward.
André I agree with you: it is a mess, but it make the research and communication more complicated, some times not even possible. If you are looking for a job, probably the first contact with the company will be with the HR girl, that absolutely doesn't know what the title means and not even if the title really means the job.
Well "codename v" you are write, but remember turtles don't climb trees, so don't touch them :)
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