Job title change - WWYD?

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Been with my current employer for three years and was employed with a job title taking the format of ‘[specialism] Manager’ however this didn’t truly reflect the seniority I held in the team, so my employer has now changed my job title to ‘Senior [specialism] Manager’ to better reflect the role I’ve been doing all this time.

The issue I’m having is that I’m considering moving on somewhere new and therefore need to update my CV in preparation. Struggling to decide how to approach my CV in terms of the job title change, as I don’t want it to look as though I’m leaving right after a ‘promotion’, when this isn’t the case at all.

WWYD? DH thinks I should simply change the job title for the entire employment duration on my CV but I’m not sure whether it’d be best to list both job titles and the duration of each, perhaps adding an explanation that it was a title change to reflect my responsibilities.

Any views much appreciated, especially if you work in recruitment! Thank you :)

If it was the same role all along, then put Senior for the whole time. Nobody will query it or give it much thought during recruitment; they'll be looking at your responsibilities and skills.

You could just put your length of employment at the company if you wanted it to look like a promotion - rather than the length of time in the role, but realistically it was just one role so I'd use one job title.

I think you're overthinking it a bit. People will be much more interested in the length of time you've been there and the skills and experience acquired than the job titles: job titles are often about internal politics and a lot of people discount them.

I've always just put the latest job title against the total years worked at that employer (e.g. 2012-2022); I've never listed individual job titles to show progression, is that a thing?

As such, Iin your position I would just put your latest job title.

You are definitely over thinking this. Put senior for the entire time

Senior entire time. Because that's the job you were doing

Senior for the whole time.

Senior for the whole time.

@Legodout

I've always just put the latest job title against the total years worked at that employer (e.g. 2012-2022); I've never listed individual job titles to show progression, is that a thing?

As such, Iin your position I would just put your latest job title.

I listed job titles from my last company because I progressed massively whilst I was there.

Thanks massively everyone, really helpful. Was definitely overthinking it 😅

You could put something like

2018-2022
Kelloggs
Senior HR Manager (and formerly HR Manager)

Change it, I mean keep the normal manager then from said date change it to senior. That way it looks like you’ve had a promotion on your CV

And we need to learn from this, we women. Your DH had no hesitation, use the Senior title. How many of us who would say the same here would have the same doubts as OP did?

I'd venture to guess that most men would think about it and use the better title and that most women would double think themselves, no matter what decision they made.

Job titles really don't matter. Put senior for the whole time.