Help me create my own job title!
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I get to put my job title of choice, within reason, on my business cards and in the company directory and my email signature. Unfortunately, there is no job title for what I do other than "admin assistant," which is fine by me, but my company wants everyone to have a "more important" title. If my company had a sense of humor, I'd have this covered, but they don't. Help me come up with something appropriately corporate sounding for what is essentially a jack-of-all-trades position. I work for a multinational corporation in real estate, in an office of about 130 realtors. Just in our metro area there are 15 other offices for our corporation. There are only three other employees, and in any other company we would be labeled "admin" or "assistant," but corporate is really gung-ho about making everyone feel super-important, and to a lesser degree they do realize we do far more than the standard job description for an admin, so we get titles that reflect the more important parts of our work to put on business cards and our email signatures. Even though all three of us do a variety of admin duties (phones, filing, scheduling, blah blah), the bulk of each of our jobs is actually several different jobs (hooray for "lean" companies. Blugh). My job aside from the standard admin work has three main focuses: marketing, office IT, and closings (when people actually finally buy or sell the property they've been trying to buy or sell). They're pretty disparate (obvs) so I would have chosen "Jack of All Trades" but was denied. "Marketing-IT-Closings Person" won't fly with my superiors either. They said it makes it look like our company is supported by scattered people who are spread too thin (which it is) when they want it to look like everyone is "more than just a this or that" (which I think is dumb but whatever). My other two compatriots are "Office Coordinator" and "Listings Database Manager." (They spend time making copies and flyers and answering phones, but like I said, they also do much more.) Is there a term or phrase that is basically "Jack of All Trades but Isn't Allowed to Wear Jeans" or something? Or can any of you come up with a decent job title for someone who splits time between writing copy and building ecards, flyers, and other marketing materials for homes for sale, and tech support for 120 people who don't understand how email works, let alone how to set it up on their phones and certainly not how to work with database queries, and tracking and coordinating real estate transactions (when they happen, who gets paid what, etc.)?
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Answer:
Operations Manager would sort of cover the IT and the closings duties, though it leaves out the marketing. Marketing Manager or Business Development Specialist would get at the marketing. Or you could keep the admin tag but call yourself Administrative Director instead of Admin Assistant. You also might think about whether you'll ever want to move to a different company, and if so what kind of work you'll want to do. Picking a title that emphasizes the work you like the best helps set you up to do more of that kind of work in the future.
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Other answers
Internal Operations Supervisor!!!!
JenThePro
I once had a job where I did some fundraising, a lot of marketing, some admin, and some "other duties as assigned". My title was "Special Assistant to the CEO' and that title has subsequently opened a lot of doors for me.
anastasiav
My rule of thumb for this kind of thing is to pick 1 or 2 'primary' roles, and describe them in the way that will be most useful for your future resume. On preview, I think augustimagination's "Marketing Technology Specialist" (or "Lead?") is a good candidate, and if you want to go the IT route in the future, winna's is a good option too.
Tomorrowful
For your future job prospects it's wise to figure out how to put Manager or Director in there.
odinsdream
I was going to suggest Promotions Technology Specialist - but I think Marketing Technology Specialist is #1. I love it how your mgmt won't give you a title, and is all vague about what makes a valid title - but they're happy to tell you when you've got it wrong.
doctor tough love
I would hesitate to use manager and would strongly urge you not to use director. The scope of responsibility for those roles is much larger than you are describing and it might actually be harder to get in the door at another job if it looks like the new job would be a substantial demotion based on your previous title. I'd also not use the term logistics - what you describe has very little if anything to do with logistics and would cause the same problems.
winna
What is your dream job? Like, if you could have any job in the reasonable universe of available jobs, what would it be? I think that really matters, because the answer to this question is that you want a job title that will impress potential future employers you want to impress. And if you want to be an IT person, that's different from if you want to be a marketing person, is different from if you want to be a lawyer or a scientist or a rodeo clown. So what are your career goals?
decathecting
If you're just trying to optimize future salaries, as opposed to flexibility for a future career or role switch: Senior Executive Assistant. That opens up pretty high paying work for CEO types at larger companies, especially since you're at a multinational now. If in the future you might be trying to get out of admin work into other positions, it sounds like one of your colleagues has already gotten away with using the word "manager," so "Operations and Logistics Manager" or similar may be your best sounding title to maximize flexibility.
deludingmyself
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