What’s in a job title? Apparently lots of imagination. After some serious discussions this past week on fake job postings on Craigslist, and then responding to a Staffing Talk reader who obviously had an ax to grind with the staffing industry, I thought it would be good to have something lighter to end the week. These strange titles come from a compilation by Coburg Banks, a talent acquisition firm in the U.K. 
- Beverage Dissemination Officer – Bartender
- Digital Overlord – Website Manager
- Retail Jedi – Shop Assistant
- Wizard of Light Bulb Moments – Marketing Director
- Chief Chatter – Call Center Manager
- Problem Wrangler – Counselor
- Dream Alchemist – Head of Creative
- Light Bender – Someone who is responsible for the high-tech, precision job of making neon lights
- Space Travel Agent – This is the job of Craig Curran who is an accredited travel agent for Virgin Galactic, the world’s first space tourism business.
- Associate to the Executive Manager of Marketeer’ing and Conservation efforts –Marketing Assistant
- Pneumatic device and machine optimizer – Factory Worker
- Senior Kindle Evangelist – In charge of all things Kindle
- Chief Inspiration Officer – A ‘CIO’ is a company representative whose role is essentially to encourage ‘belief in the company’ and ‘internal evangelism of its values’
- Part-Time Czar – Czars were Eastern European supreme rulers that haven’t been around since WWII. This person is either an assistant manager or perhaps an emperior of Russia who has been kept in a cryopreserve state since 1917 and is now ready to rejoin the job market.
- Patron Saint of Academic Studying – Unless this person is several hundred years old, I doubt they are being totally honest about being a saint.
- Grand master of underlings – Deputy Manager
- Creativity analyst – Assistant Marketing Manager
- Conversation Architect – Digital Marketing Manager
- Director of Fun – Director of Marketing
- Initiative Officer – Planner
From your years of reading resumes do you have any exciting euphemisms or creative job titles to add to our list?
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Human Directional Officer = The person on the corner dancing with the Quizno’s sign.
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we just finished our third meeting on how to design the job title schema on a new staffing software product. Things used to be so simple when people had one job title, often for life. But now of course it isn’t just temps but everyone who wears many hats.
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How about language prescriptivist? Someone who corrects the language of others, or “writes a prescription” for the use of certain words. That’s a new one on me. I just heard a radio talk show host use it when someone called in to inform him he was using a word wrong.
I like your suggested title too Steve. I haven’t ever thought about it, but what would you call those people?
I did this post to make light of the creativity involved in the titling of certain jobs, but you point out the fact this is a very valid and timely issue Gregg. It’s not as easy as it used to be certainly to describe and label what people do in the workplace, and there may not be, in many cases, a single title or few words that captures all of it.