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Can somebody please tell me the difference between these designations:
Specialist
Senior specialist
Senior software engineer.
I have recently joined and it shows my designation is senior software engineer. I have seen some people's designation as specialist frontend developer and so on. Will they add a specialist to my designation also? If not, what is the criteria and when can somebody be called a specialist? Larsen & Toubro Capgemini Infosys Wipro Mindtree Cognizant
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Is she the only one to say this, or have you heard it elsewhere? If you haven’t heard it elsewhere, I’d be very cautious and get feedback from others you can trust before even letting her make the recommendation.
If you have heard it elsewhere, it might be worth pursuing but ask a lot of questions about what you are getting into. Natural ability is wonderful and when paired with fresh enthusiasm, can result in great innovative ideas and creative work. But lived experiences, like how to balance your work load as you get more demanding projects and start to manage people and how to deal with office politics, etc. are all learned at scale - and there isn’t really a ‘natural ability’ jump that would happen there, even if your work skills are giving you a jump up the ladder. And it might even be worth acknowledging that in an interview - saying ‘I have the skills for the job, but I’m aware I might not have as much experience as you’d normally see at this level. As part of being successful in this role, I’d like to work with you to set up a plan for leadership training/mentorship/etc. that aligns with your longer term goals for someone in the role.
Anyone in your agency can leave and go get a bigger title and a bunch more money. Titles and salaries are inflated. But if you chase title and salary to aggressively eventually you will be obviously over titled and you will begin to operate below what your title suggests. So what would you rather be? someone Who functions above your title or someone who functions below your title? At every level there are a lot of things to learn and they are things that you can’t appreciate until they are on your plate. You’re talking about a two title job I think there’s a lot to be said for keeping that to a one title job.
Thanks everyone! We ended up agreeing I would come in as a Group Copy Supervisor, but still get to work with the partner who wanted to recommend me. For better or worse at my last agency they tended to heap responsibility on whoever was able to handle it so I actually do have experience managing multiple brands/people/politics—to the point that my partner said this new role she is in “feels exactly like what we did at X Agency but I have a team to support me versus it all being on my shoulders.” I’m really excited!!! It feels like the perfect compromise because I really do acknowledge the experience gap here.
Just do it. But be prepared to learn on the job. That may mean more “work” than the work itself. Don’t be the person who gets promoted too soon and takes out their incompetence on everyone else.
Being an ACD (at most places) is more than your creative skill. Do you think you have the experience to be objective and still motivating to a team. Can you manage and execute work while still being present in basically all meetings. Sometimes the biggest short coming with someone promoted too soon is that they can work as one but haven’t had the time to build their skills that would be passed to others.
Do your best to observe what Copy ACDs do at your current agency. Do you think you can do those things? Varies by agency but likely overseeing multiple brands, supervising multiple writers, being responsible for driving creative concepting, tactical planning, other big creative efforts on these brands, and also helping run pitches and presenting at them from time to time. If you feel like you’re ready to do all these things then go for it, but be honest with yourself about whether you’re prepared to operate multiple levels above where you are now if you have reservations that you’re going to be in over your head.
I became an ACD with 6 years of experience and I haven’t struggled a ton. I would say go for it, but be prepared to be overwhelmed at certain points.