A Job Is More Than A Name - Why You Should Look Deeper When Searching For A Job
Job Hunting - A Name Game?
When searching for a job you need to remember that you can’t tell everything from a name - in fact most of the time you can’t tell anything from a name when it comes to employment. If you are looking for a job it’s important to make sure that you look beyond the name and look closer at the explanation below.
A job title is pretty much worthless - you won’t be able to get a proper grasp of what will be asked of you by looking at just the job title in the same way that an employer won’t be able to explain what is being asked of you in the job in just a title.
In this light, you need to make sure you go beyond the title and look at the job description for a better insight into the job you are thinking of applying for. However, when searching for a job you should really keep in mind the following issues;
A Work Of Fiction?
You should remember that job titles are often fictitious - you should look closely at what the job is demanding and not what it is called. The company hiring needed someone to fulfil a role in the business, and to advertise for this someone they needed to create a name that would attract the best of the best.
This is a valid reason to back up the need for looking closely at what the job involves as the name may have absolutely nothing to do with the job itself.
Above One’s Station?
Some people like to beef up job titles to make themselves sound more important than they actually are - if you are working on a till in Asda you can essentially call yourself a Financial Supervisor, if you clean toilets you can call yourself a Sanitation Engineer.
It is the nature of human beings to want to give themselves the appearance of more importance than they actually have - therefore you need to make sure that the job you are applying for really is what you think it is. The English language can be manipulate in many ways, make sure it doesn’t trip you up…
You should also not turn work down because you call yourself a Sanitation Engineer and the job application calls for a cleaner - the job is exactly the same…who cares what they call it?
One And The Same?
Different companies have different views when it comes to different positions - filling one role in one company doesn’t necessarily translate to another company and you can’t guarantee that you will be a director in one company and then move to another and keep the title.
You can still be doing the same job, but under a different title - that’s the way things go!
What’s In A Name?
Are you stumbling when it comes to job titles? Do you look for the explanations? Let us know…
