[Sigia-l] Are you ready for it?

[Listera]

>> Job titles are not about your *current* job (you already have it), they are
>> about your *next* job. Or put differently, if you didn't have to get a 'next'
>> job, there wouldn't be any need for job titles.
>> 
> This is true but people get to rely on their title.

...to get their next job. It's a subtle but very telling distinction. Job
title is an investment into the future. It's a foretelling of future
expectations and ambitions.

> People proclaim their job title with pride, indifference or trepidation but no
> matter which way you look at it once you have said who you are people judge
> you on that and the lid is on the box.

...and that judgment process is problematic to the extent that it may reduce
your ambitions/flexibility in regards to your *next* job.

> If only [larger] companies could find a better way to cope with the concept
> of skillsets defining roles rather than job titles as part of the
> organisational management.

Of course, it'd be much better if [larger] companies weren't the inflexible
carcasses they are but simply outsourced the work to smaller, nimbler, more
intelligent and infinitely more efficient outfits, where org charts and
titles play much less of a role. :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba