Hi Jenine

What's in a name? as they say.......in my experience your job title is a very wideranging one and sometimes officer replaced with such as 'executive' or 'controller' or similar but broadly to me at least denote similar (wideranging, potentially) things

We've got some similar discussions on here, which I will try to fish out.

Jenine

This does come up from time to time so if you do a search you will probably find some useful threads

There is no universal or agreed definitions for job titles. I have seen people with HRD who are doing barely HR Officer level activity.

I think you are probably right that HRO is a little dated. But if it fits in with your organisation and you aren't looking to move then it isn't really an issue.

HR Manager, HR BP, HR Specialist, HR Adviser all might be alternative titles depending on what you do, your culture and where you fit into the hierarchy.

In reply to Keith:

Agreed, I was called an HR Coordinator but was really an HR Manager. The Coordinator title just fitted in with other similar level titles in other departments, so the org structure looked nice and tidy. I have also seen HR Coordinators as an entry level position and at a 80K salary. Really depends on the organisation, advisors can be quite a broad range of a title also with quite a range of responsibility/salary.

In reply to Andrew:

In my last organisation at one point in time we had HR Coordinators who coordinated the work of National HR Directors in 6-8 countries on a continent and ensured the deployment of Group HR policies for populations in the order of 30.000-50.000 staff depending on the region/continent under consideration. Titles and work vocabulary are very specific to company culture so I would advise Jenine not to get too hung up about it.

When Alice talked with Humpty Dumpty in "Through the Looking Glass" the conversation went as follows :

When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

Clearly, as far as job titles are concerned Humpty Dumpty rules supreme

In reply to Ray:

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.”

“Words strain,

Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,

Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,

Will not stay still.”

(not of course my own words - those of (who else?) TS Eliot.......

In reply to David:

In reply to Robey:

That just made me laugh out loud, on a Friday at the end of a VERY long week. Thanks Robey!

Thank you everyone