A career coach advised to remove credentials from the resume header. According to her, “it has never been appropriate to include credentials next to your name that are not a terminal degree. (e.g., PhD). However, we used to put MBA next to people’s names because that essentially is a terminal degree in business when it comes to corporate work. Today’s sentiment is not to put anything next to your name unless it’s maybe an MD”. Is this a universal opinion? Continued in comments.

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I’ve had my resume professionally done three times, and each time they include my credentials in the header. My colleagues also include their credentials in the header.

Curious to learn from others experiences.

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The career coaching service I have worked with also stated not to include credentials after name. Exceptions were few, like MD.

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Thank you, RN1. I’m glad to know the recommendation is broader than just the coach I met with. My coach indicated people “feel it’s pretentious”.

I was ambivalent about the notion of it being industry standard (can easily be claimed) because if you ask 10 career coaches/résumé writers for their opinion, you’ll get 15 answers. And, my colleagues and associates universally include their credentials on resumes/CVs as well as LinkedIn. I’ve opted to remove mine.

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