BLUF: I perform a unique function in my job. I help to manage 3 teams, run projects, and am responsible for training and development. My question is how do I capture my actual duties, performance, and responsibilities on a resume and how long do I do this without an appropriate title, status among the leadership team, or commensurate pay??
I am an individual contributor who has sought out, and been given, more responsibility within my role. Because of this I often run different project teams (this is not our core business) that will benefit the site in both long term and short term. I also help to design and deliver training for the site (the only non-management person at the site to do this). For the last 10 months I have been helping with the leadership and motivation of 3 of our repair teams to improve their quality and on-time performance.
About 3-4 months ago I interviewed for my old managers position. The result was that I was not picked but told that I was a strong contender for the position. My site supervisor, 2 levels above me, also told me that certain people on the management team did not feel that I had what it takes to be a supervisor within the organization. This strikes me as strange since they are more than willing to let me run their projects and team events, just not in a supervisory position.
My site supervisor strongly encouraged me to look for other opportunities internally (at other sites) and externally. He confided in me that I would not be promoted locally even though I deserve it and my performance reviews have said as much for the last 4 cycles.
How do I build up my resume with appropriate information to convey my role, expectations, and performance when I do not have a suitable title to go along with it when I write my resume? My current title is pretty generic, Inventory Control III, and covers less than 10% of what I actually do.
BLUF: I perform a unique function in my job. I help to manage three teams, run projects, and am responsible for training and development. My question is how long do I do this without an appropriate title, status among the leadership team, or commensurate pay?
Mac
Title means nothing. If your
Title means nothing. If your resume describes what you've done, how you've done it, and how well you've done it, then any recruiter will see that you were going beyond your title.
"Running projects" and "supervising others" are not the same skills. Maybe they believe that you have one skill set and not the other. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. Either way, it might be time to start looking elsewhere because your superiors do not see you as fit for promotion. That's a hard label to get past,
Thanks Tom. You are, of
Thanks Tom.
You are, of course, correct that these are not the same. I have often heard that it is hard to get that offer from an outside organization without a previous, relatively current, title to go with the new position. I just purchased the resume workbook and am going through trying to figure out how to make my resume better, more consistent, with MT ideologies.
Thanks
Mac