Comments on: Death to job titles at Quicken Loans

By: No More Job Titles!

No More Job Titles! — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:15:45 +0000

[...] just read a GREAT article about putting Job Titles to Death!! (It’s not the most relevant thing to VoiceActing, but it really resonates with [...]

By: List of Job Titles

List of Job Titles — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:32:49 +0000

Now that is an interesting change. Do they just say Analyst, Supervisor, Manager, Director to differentiate between the different levels of authority ? Also, this is an interesting article Alex. Would you mind if I post this on my site http://www.jobtitles.org ? I will duly link to your website as the source/credit/copyright holder ?

By: Tiara

Tiara — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:04:35 +0000

Some people do go overboard with the creative titles though. Just look at the profiles on Twitter – half of them are “evangelists” of some kind, or “advocates”, or some other ridiculous buzzword.

I’m all for killing off job titles as they really aren’t a great way to describe who you ARE. But let’s be careful not to just make the same cookie-cutter titles with newer wording.

By: job title for me? « flowing motion

job title for me? « flowing motion — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:43:29 +0000

[...] Happiness Officer, job titles, what do psychologists do? Chief Happiness Officer has a marvellous post on job titles in marketing. Anything could be friendlier than psychologist? But what do we [...]

By: More death to job titles

More death to job titles — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:12:41 +0000

[...] You can see more titles in my previous post on this. [...]

By: Technology Can’t Fix Everything | Daily Cup of Geek

Technology Can’t Fix Everything | Daily Cup of Geek — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:12:51 +0000

[...] And anyway, how awesome is the title Chief Happiness Officer? I want that title (or even one of the cool titles they have at Quicken Loans [...]

By: Joe Deegan

Joe Deegan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:28:11 +0000

This post really struck a chord with me and then I was just reminded of it again today while participating in a discussion on the ASTD discussion boards. This discussion thread is a good supplement to what you are discussing in this post. Thanks for the enlightenment.

http://community.astd.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6401041/m/10110634/p/1

By: Scientific Ink » links for 2008-01-14 - not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:30:51 +0000

[...] Death to job titles at Quicken Loans * Royal Storyteller & Propaganda Minister * Supreme Challenger of the Status Quo & Wicked Web Site Innovator * Innovation Maven and Revenue Raiser * Mastermind of Possibilities, Visual Linguist, and Czar of the High Fiber Revolution (tags: via:chiefhappinessofficer work titles) [...]

By: Christy Brewer

Christy Brewer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:44:58 +0000

okay, I’m one who is not embracing the “cute, clever” side of the titles. I latched on to the concept of explaining what it is that you _really_ do, not what HR says you do. So, at Quicken Loans, I’m now known as “Making sure people find us when they search.” Death to “SEO Manager”!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:45:44 +0000

Dave: Excellent, excellent titles! And kudos to Officejobs.com for not going with the boring titles.

Mary K: Expert obstacle remover – not bad. And to have it conferred upon you from a (hopefully) respected manager is even better :o)

Justin: Exactly. And part of the problem with titles is, that it’s now about the title, not the value! This is what Quick Loans found and why they decided to kill off titles.