Sorta related to the honorifics thread: do you put your degrees on your business card?
What about professional qualifications?
Mine says I’m a lawyer, but no degrees. Being a lawyer is the key point for me.
Plus there’s enough crammed in there already: place of work, street address, telephone, fax, e-mail. And French version of everything on the flip side of the card.
Yep, mind says rsat3acr, D.D.S.
I’m pretty sure nobody cares I have a master’s degree. If I had a PhD, I might put it on though.
Yeah, Ph.D. would be significant to many people I would give the card to.
Professional designations in my field are important qualifiers. Otherwise, no.
It depends on the purpose of the cards. Mine are more to find certain things to purchase than to sell myself to others. That and its just a handy way to get my phone number and e-mail address to people I want to have that information. I guess you could say I use them more as calling cards than business cards.
They don’t fit on my business card. So I rolled them up and put them in a box on my bookcase. You can come and see them.
I have my name and my professional standing (Advocate)and designation.
Why should a degree I took 10 years ago (and counting) be what’s on the card. People care about your experience.
My card states my name, with “Barrister and Solicitor” underneath. As far as I’m concerned, “Barrister and Solicitor” says it all; it indicates the degrees I have already.
Nope. Nor even that I’m a lawyer or that my firm is a law firm.
I don’t need none stinkin’ degrees.
kam: TELEMARKETER EXTRAORDINAIRE.
Yes. Competitive advantage.
Northern Piper, which do you think would be better for a lawyer for local marketing purposes: LL.B. or J.D.? (Or either potential clients would not care because they know they are the same or would not care because they don’t know the difference?)
Not my degrees, but I do list my specialties. Just putting “consultant” would definitely not be enough information.
My boss told me to add PhD to mine but I keep forgetting to. Supposed to help us acquire new business or something.
As an academic, yes.
No way. I have just a bachelor’s degree and my business card is cluttered enough. Next time I get them printed, I’m hoping to be able to drop the fax number.
Yes, even though it’s only a master’s degree (in library science). But then I work at a university, and there is a standardized format that all employee’s business cards have to follow. Degrees are included as part of that format.
I wouldn’t think it would make much difference, but I’m not a marketing guru. I think it’s just the fact that they’re there.
Supposedly the law schools adopted the JD so Canadian grads would be competitive in the US job market.
