{"id":1818,"date":"2008-12-05T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2008-12-05T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:56:03","slug":"funny-job-ad-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/funny-job-ad-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Job Ad Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0recently stumbled across this\u00a0article and blog – 51 Funny Craigslist Job Titles and Listings<\/a>.\u00a0 Now sometimes a catchy title may catch a candidate’s eye, but most of the time you\u00a0run the risk of not\u00a0being taken seriously.\u00a0 Here are a couple that I thought were rather good:<\/p>\n

I\u00a0recently stumbled across this\u00a0article and blog – 51 Funny Craigslist Job Titles and Listings.\u00a0 Now sometimes a catchy title may catch a candidate’s eye, but most of the time you\u00a0run the risk of not\u00a0being taken seriously.\u00a0 Here are a couple that I thought were rather good: Attractive, Busy Professional Seeks Very Attractive Personal Assistant The easiest \u201cSALES JOB\u201d \u2013 EVER GONE FISHING WITH DYNAMITE? Get Paid to Wave and Dance!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[530,1011,1115],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-employment-ads","tag-employment-ad","tag-job-ad","tag-job-ad-title"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-tk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1997,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/04\/customers-are-pigs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":0},"title":"Customers Are Pigs","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a new favorite title for a sales ad: Territory Manager, Swine-Minnesota I\u2019m not making that up, it is an actual title.\u00a0 This seems remedial, but employment ad titles do matter.\u00a0 Most of us remember the days of looking at ads in a paper where space was limited and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Anecdotes"","block_context":{"text":"Anecdotes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":229,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/job-titles-attract-workers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":1},"title":"Job Titles Attract Workers","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"August 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I read a recent newsletter article from Ragan's Management Resources titled \"Use job titles to attract and reward workers\" (sorry, no link available). 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