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Quirky job titles may be killing your recruiting pipeline. As hiring tightens, a rising trend of “vanity” descriptions of applicants’ work experiences is making hiring managers’ jobs more difficult. If you can’t glance at a resume and know that “Chief Happiness Guru” was really a Chief Human Resources Officer, it’s harder to tell if the applicant is someone
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ou should look at more closely. Some career coaches are trying to solve this problem, but may make it worse. In an article written for Business Insider, Andrea Wasserman advised job candidates to use “vanity” descriptions of their work, rather than their real titles.