Looking for a job in tech is tough.
What you dont need are the often-complicated, semi-meaningless job titles and buzzwords floating in many job descriptions.
This isnt a definitive list by any means, just a few that have caught our eye.
Youve probably heard them before.
The phrase wasnt always a buzzword, though.
He described the role as this:
A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth.
Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth.
The right growth hacker will have a burning desire to connect your target market with your must have solution.
Even if it started out differently, at this point the title is a distinction without a difference.
DevOps
This ones a hot buzzword, but the job itself isnt really a joke.
In some companies, DevOps is a methodology, not a team.
In others, its a small group of people with one or multiple bosses or priorities to manage.
Full Stack
Ah, the full stack engineer: Almost every company wants one.
This phrase is easy to find if youve been browsing job search boards or looking at LinkedIn profiles.
They need to understand how to scale an app to handle millions of hits a day (or hour?
… As Ive mentioned, there are people who are this capable, I know some of them.
And this is where the problem comes in.
If your eyes glaze over just reading it, dont worry.
Sadly, this buzzword serves to obfuscate real requirements for a potential job.
Content Marketing
Content Marketing, like growth hacking, is marketing-focused.
In this case, its a pretty fancy term for uses media tactics for advertising.
Unfortunately this buzzphrase takes a mysterious and dark turn when youre looking for a job in the field.
On the other side of the line?
Well, you rememberThe Atlantics Scientology advertorial, right?
That brings us back to content marketing.
Applying for a job in this new age of marketing and engineering is more complicated than ever.
Title image bygst(Shutterstock).
Full stack graphic byScott Hadfield.
