Timeline for How to handle a title (PostDoc) I consider misleading?
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 16:31 | history | edited | user108403 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 16:30 | comment | added | user108403 | @AnonymousPhysicist My employer knows that my contract calls me a "scientific researcher" but that I write "postdoctoral researcher" on my CV and doesn't give two flips. No one in my field cares about these fineries, especially since the precise job titles can't even be translated into English. If I wrote instead "God's greatest gift to mankind" or "neurological surgeon," we'd obviously have a problem. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 16:14 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | @quarague That might be true in your country but in some places you may call yourself whatever you want and the law will not care, but your employer can fire you no matter that the lie is. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 14:57 | comment | added | quarague | @AnonymousPhysicist The point is that 'postdoc' is not a title like doctor/phd or professor. Missusing the latter two can have legal consequences but if your hairdresser called himself a postdoc there wouldn't be any problem with it. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | user108403 | Oh come on, I wasn't being literal, and I definitely wasn't suggesting the OP make up arbitrary titles. If I literally transcribed every title on my CV, it would be an indiscernable hodge-podge of four different languages. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 13:18 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | "you can write it up however you want on your CV." Do not do that, it could be serious misconduct resulting in firing. | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 12:40 | history | answered | user108403 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |