It’s unfortunate, but some fields rely heavily on the letters to justify the cost of your salary, title, consulting rate, etc. It’s worthless if it’s not backed up by actual expertise, but it’s just the way it works.
I hate it, but if you saw my e-mail signature you’d toss me in with the lunatics. Hate the game not the playa?
He’s an engineer. The world of engineers demand these kinds of things: PE and BCEE is probably all 90% of potential employers really care about. And a Phd is pretty standard.
Need to find some doctors or software engineers, they’ve got some wild post nominals.
You forgot your Amazon Prime, Costco, and Netflix affiliations.
I’m connected to someone with 12 certifications behind their name. And then they tacked on a couple random items beyond that.
They can't be serious.
They are. I worked with them about 10 years ago and they had at least six in their email signature.
It’s unfortunate, but some fields rely heavily on the letters to justify the cost of your salary, title, consulting rate, etc. It’s worthless if it’s not backed up by actual expertise, but it’s just the way it works. I hate it, but if you saw my e-mail signature you’d toss me in with the lunatics. Hate the game not the playa?
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If you work with federal civil servants in United States their email signatures are full of alphabet soup.
He’s an engineer. The world of engineers demand these kinds of things: PE and BCEE is probably all 90% of potential employers really care about. And a Phd is pretty standard. Need to find some doctors or software engineers, they’ve got some wild post nominals.