Re: job title nomenclature on biz cards

Subject: Re: job title nomenclature on biz cards
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:28 -0700 (PDT)


At my company, everyone knows me as a technical writer. However, my
card says "Manager of Documentation"...

...when I came here under the title of Manager of Documentation, I
sat down with my boss and said the last thing they needed was another
manager...what they needed was someone who actually did some work.
:-)

Anyway...I've been working with another Manager in the Product
Engineering group for the last 6 months and we've had a decent
relationship. However, last week, I needed to give him my cellphone
number and since I didn't have any paper, I wrote it on my business
card.

It's been night and day the difference in how he responds to me.

> register with people. This phenomenon is not limited to CEOs by any
> means. Go into a conference room and watch people's eyes glaze over
> when
> you hand them a card that identifies a technical function: clearly
> you
> are not a person who can negotiate for your company; so why should
> I
> bother listening to you. Now do the same exercise with a card that
> says
> you're the president of GranatEdit.com, and you'll see that the
> body language changes completely.


=====
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer



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Re: job title nomenclature on biz cards: From: Dick Margulis

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