Social networks can be funny old places, and while Linkedin's professional leanings clearly differentiate it from places like Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, it can also throw up some suprising (and often amusing) search results.
While doing some research for my next round of Linkedin Training Webinars I came across a profile whose current position was "Office skivvy". Now, aside from wondering what their employers position would be on this, it got me curious as to the other "unusual" job titles I might find...
A quick search turned up some amusing results, here are the numbers along with some of my favourites...
169 users with "monkey" in their job title, including the fantastic "Monkey - With delusions of being an Organ Grinder"
32 Ninjas.
14 idiots, including Chief Idiots, Founder Idiots, Big Idiots, Little Idiots and of course, a Village Idiot.
16 Skivvies.
130 Tea Boys & 6 Tea girls.
Now a large percentage of these profiles are very limited and have clearly been set up and forgotten about without the intention of really using the network, but a worrying number are much more complete and seem to have fairly active users. The million dollar question from an employers point of view is whether this admittedly minor trend can be flipped on it's head to make a vacancy stand out from the crowd.
In tomorrow’s posting I will show you how you can use some of the “stand out” job titles like Ninja and Guru to make your advert jump off the page. I will also highlight some of the pitfalls of this technique.
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