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karl
November 7th, 2013, 06:57 AM
WHAT do you say to a mobile sustenance facilitator? Onions and ketchup, please.

The ludicrous job title is, after all, for someone who works in a burger van.

It’s enough to make you fling your snack to the ground, where it could be cleaned up by the highway environmental hygienists – or road sweepers, in old money.

These are some of the examples of “jobbledygook”, ridiculous job titles dreamt up by talent delivery specialists – sorry, recruitment staff – at councils and businesses to make ordinary jobs sound much more impressive.

Recruitment expert Chris Smith said: “In today’s job market a receptionist is a guest services agent, a bin man is a sanitation engineer – the list goes on.

“We hear from candidates all the time about job titles which are wildly over the top.

“One was for a colour distribution technician – it was for a painter and decorator.

Full story here: http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/441585/What-a-lot-of-jobbledygook-Recruitment-staff-re-title-plain-jobs-to-make-them-impressive

Dark Unicorn
November 14th, 2013, 08:02 AM
Crazy stuff!Why complicate titles?

Luminous
November 14th, 2013, 08:37 AM
That is so strange..