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Topic: title inflation
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| mister_t | Posted – 8/27/2008 1:28:03 PM | show profile | email poster I worked for one publishing company for a long time and ended up with the title "senior editor". This company had wage freezes in place many years, and the only way to get people more money was to promote them. (We had LOTS of "Senior Assistant This" and "Associate Director of This" type titles.) My problem is - my experience matches up better with "editor" job descriptions. My concerns are that people might think I've overstated my qualifications, or for that matter, that I am being an "underachiever" if I apply for "Editor" positions. Can anyone advise me - if you've had this problem, how have you dealt with it, and/or if you've interviewed people whose titles didn't seem to quite match up to their experience? Thanks a whole bunch, Mr. T (not the famous one) |
| JimmyG | Posted – 9/2/2008 3:25:09 PM | show profile This is common in publishing and it works both ways. Often titles are given in lieu of salary increases, and sometimes titles are given to otherwise justify salary increases, as when a person's been on staff long enough to reach the limit of that position's pay scale. I was once given named "manager of editorial development" with a book publisher who didn't otherwise want to give me the "managing editor" title when the overpaid ME left. I later went from associate editor to senior editor to managing editor at a magazine with no appreciable change in duties, at least until the EIC quit and I began running the title without benefit of either his title or paycheck. My advice is to leverage the title for all its worth. At the least, with pubs wanting to pay people so little these days you could appear to be a bargain hire as an "editor." |
