I've noticed quite a few incorrect titles for jobs as I've been job searching this year. Postings for "Editor" are really video editing jobs, not traditional copy editing jobs. 🧐 Postings for "Writer" are actually technical writing/documentation jobs, not traditional copy writing jobs. ✍ Postings for "Marketing/Communications Specialist" are positions where writing, graphic design, HTML and traffic coordination are all expected in one role. 😧 What incorrect titles are you seeing out there? The examples I mentioned above give me significant pause - I automatically think the company doesn't know the difference. 🤦♀️ **UPDATE** - I am not dissing tech writers (I'm married to one!) or video editors in this post. Not at all. Just giving companies crap for not being specific.
Your observations about job title confusion are quite enlightening. Have you noticed this trend becoming more prevalent? #JobMarket 🎯
I have always seen tons of postings for copy editors that should say copywriter. These aren't interchangeable terms, but it seems like people think they are.
My brother and I have "editor" in our job titles but he does video and I did newspapers. Another thing I find irritating is reading through a job description and thinking it's a perfect fit until you get to the very bottom and it says you need to be fluent in a language you never heard of, much less speak.
Could the incorrect titles be caused by the fact that accepted job titles don't exist for the proposed job function? Our work environments get more complex by the day and traditional roles may not cover all functions needed to make a team work. I wonder if there's a better way to describe these functions and also to value the skillset necessary to fill them?
I always find “photographer” roles where they’re really looking for someone to be a photographer AND videographer… they’re two different things that need to be treated as two separate jobs. Or photography editor roles that are actually graphic design roles.
I would like any job in communications to be listed by its true title, “Chaos Coordinator.”
I’ve seen “graphic design” positions that are actually web programming positions and “marketing communications positions that were sales associate positions.
This sounds like a sign of the shifts that have happened in creative work in the past several decades. I was in the print journalism world for many years. So much has changed there and in other similar fields as our world moves in new directions. This is exciting in many ways. That said, it would serve the employers to add a bit of specificity to the titles, I think. That would help them attract the right people and help job seekers have a better idea of the role. 🤔
There are also a lot of ‘marketing’ roles being advertised which are really just in-person sales.
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2moThat's so true! I've experienced it as well. I've often witnessed confusion regarding job descriptions and titles. For example, terms like copywriter, content writer, content creator, content specialist, and content manager are used interchangeably. Meanwhile, job descriptions might state that they are looking for a copywriter who has expertise in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Premiere and is familiar with social media management, along with all the high-end software like Figma and Illustrator.