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The fear is that you're out of touch with producing actual work. Most formerly-technical managers tend to very quickly lose their skills and many don't manage t
by staunch 15y ago
The fear is that you're out of touch with producing actual work. Most formerly-technical managers tend to very quickly lose their skills and many don't manage to reattain them.
You could try simply changing the job title on your resume. Titles are mostly arbitrary anyway. Change "CTO" to "Software Developer Team Lead" or "Technical Team Lead" or whatever.
That's not going to help if you don't actually have the ability to do the job, but at least it should prevent you from getting judged prematurely.
- kls 15y agoI second this, but i would probably use the term architect as much as I dislike it,if you use a term like software lead and they do discover it was an executive level position they may feel that you are being deceptive. Where architect implies executive level but hands on. After-all the CTO position could be equated to being the top level architect. BTW I have been the CTO at three different orgs, as well as the VP of tech at a fortune 100 and have had no problem bouncing between technical and executive level positions.
- anon999999999 15y agoThanks for the insight.