Calling yourself Head of Dept when you're not

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Someone I know professionally calls themselves Head of (dept) on LinkedIn and own socials but on their company's website they are titled (dept) Officer, not Head of, which is quite a difference - in our field it's usually Officer, then Manager, then Head of.

Is that normal??

Who cares?

Watch the last series of below deck down under and see how that worked out for Mike. 😂

Pretty daft thing to do when Linkedin is open for all their colleagues to see. Disingenuous too.

Not seen that...did he inflate his title too?

I agree on both counts!

Well it’s pretty stupid but I imagine it’s also fairly common.

In lots of Companies Officer is Board level and Head of is 2 levels below. For example Chief People Officer, Chief Financial Officer etc. Directors report into the officers and Heads of report into the Directors. So perhaps your contact has been promoted?

He was basically the lowest ranked member of staff but declared himself HoD because no one else had his job title. Prat.

I know someone who got sacked from NHS for changing their own job title