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Job Titles Important, But Only Go So Far

Job titles can carry some significance, but appreciating their influence and limits also is important. So reports U.S. News & World Report.

The title should be relevant to skills/talent that you bring to the firm as well as your experience and expertise, says Sarah Stoddard, a public relations associate at Glassdoor. But “an experienced screener or recruiter will quickly look at a title and even more quickly go to the content of a job,” says Jim Link, chief human resources officer at Randstad North America.

How companies use job titles may evolve with a younger and more agile workforce calling for greater flexibility and may even be discarded entirely, Link notes. Kim Dawson, director of employee experience at Austin, Texas-based HR tech firm YouEarnedIt, welcomes changes with job titles. “I think that job titles will change as cultures within companies change,” Dawson says. “I love the idea of flexibility with job titles, provided it’s not frivolity.”

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