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If you are in the same ballpark of the job it’s not a red flag. But if you call yourself like senior partner and you are a manager then there’s reason for concern.
I left a job before the promotion but received green lights from all folks on the team
100% do not use the promoted title. Misrepresentation can get an offer rescinded at many places and the background check will show up that you did not hold that title at Deloitte. This will raise concern about your consideration for employment.
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It will depend on a couple of things:
1. How different are the titles in responsibilities? Like, are you a Jr. Consultant calling yourself a Sr. Consultant or something similar.
2. The company you're applying to and how much of a stickler they are.
When you get an offer, it's usually conditional on a background check. If the company you applied finds the title to be misleading or misrepresented, they could rescind offer, ask you why they are different, or not care.
In my experience background checking companies will take your resume and return a marked up with a 🔴🟡🟢 depending on the severity of the discrepancy. Typically if you’re in the ballpark it’ll be a yellow flag, which we didn’t worry about.
If I was a management consulting senior analyst but that whole title didn’t fit and I just put Management Consultant (for an older role) is that a problem
No
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I’m really an intern.
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That’s the Mary Barra story. She started as an intern and worked on the production line after graduation.
With our firms different system, you'll see different titles depending on the system you look at. In one for example, I'm a Senior Solutions Architect, in another USDC Senioe Manager 1 and in a third Senior manager 1 as well Senior Manager. DPN have almost all of those listed on my profile to.
My opinion, official titles are fairly irrelevant because they vary from company to company. If you need to in your job description, put what you functioned as. For example, your official title may be Manager, but you were the senior lead consultant on projects, managing 3 to 5 team members, and the main point of contact with the client.
In one role, I was the on-site manager for a dozen team members, but I had no official reporting responsibilities ... I was more in touch with their job performance, training, and advancement than their managers ...
I worked in a role where all my peers were called Vice President -- the same role across town would call them principal associates, a level below the Manager position, with the Vice Presidents being 5 levels up ... if someone beefs at you for trying to balance the title with the role, they are just looking for a way to screen you out ... give them a matter-of-fact statement with confidence, and press on with a discussion of actual relevant points to consider ... if they press for an argument, you don't want to work with them anyway
Why?
Super Senior Executive Vice President here!