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When writing resumes in the past I've taken lousy job titles and updated them with actual job titles equivalent to the work I was doing -- for example changing
by scrabble 13y ago
When writing resumes in the past I've taken lousy job titles and updated them with actual job titles equivalent to the work I was doing -- for example changing "Software Developer" to "Front End Developer" or "Full Stack Developer".
What's the opinion on this? Is it considered deceptive if it matches the work that you were doing?
My thought is that it more accurately represents what you were doing for HR filters, since I don't really care about my title on a personal level.
- grey-area 13y agoSounds fair to me. As long as you're not being deceptive about what the job actually entailed, and are trying to describe it more fully, I see no problem with switching job titles - they're just a descriptive label. Job titles in software development are mostly invented out of whole cloth anyway as it's such a young and dynamic profession, and many labels are borrowed from other professions solely to lend a patina of authority to the role - developers are not engineers or architects in my opinion except by analogy.