Don’t have my PhD on my business card, and almost none of my colleagues do either. When I was doing technical marketing support no one asked me to put it on, but the Bell Labs name counted for more anyway, and probably everyone assumed I had one.
As for getting rid of extra cards, I have an almost full box which are going to be not so useful when I retire sometime soon. Anyone have any ideas? Insulation? Mulch?
Just the PhD after the name. No others are listed nor the field. It was kind of important for the purposes I used the cards for.
Haven’t had to hand one out in so long …
I never had a business card, but if I had it would have said Professor, but not listed any degrees.
Dave Cutler, when he was at Microsoft had a card that gave his title as “Supreme Commander”.
So I’m sitting here at the office, a quarter after none on a Friday night, looking at the buisiness card of someone with four sets of alphabet soup under her name. Why am I working late on a fine summer evening? The lettered person could not do simple word-problem arithmetic. Not only could that person not do simple math. That person chose not to use an easy-peasy form that would have done the simple mat for her. Grrrr.
The MLS is required in my line of work, so even if I had a business card it would be kinda superfulous.
My business card has R.N. after my name but that is pertinent to my business… Mostly I give them to patients to give their doctors so the doctors can fax orders to us. My personal numbers are not on the card at all.
New a guy that had alphabet soup after his name with all his degrees and certifications. The last one he added for fun was EIEIO - “Old McDonald had a farm…”
Mine say, “BetsQ, Ph.D.” I’m in research, so have an advance research degree matters.
I don’t put my degrees on my business cards.
My cousin had a business card at one point (he works in software) that had his name, no degrees listed, followed by “Top Gun” as his job title. The company approved.
I used to, but nobody seemed to be very impressed.
-Spud Q. Tater GED
On LinkedIn I get a lot of interest in in D.td B. It’s disturbing how many recruiters are still interested when I explain it stands for “Duty to dat Booty”. In summary, LinkedIn is a bunch of crap.
This.
I have never had cards. When I meet someone new at a meeting, I simply shake their hand and tell them my name. If they want to contact me, I am probably in the email string that lead up to the meeting.
I do have a business card but feel the same way. Having a Master’s degree is one of the basic requirements for this job, so it’s not like anyone in the field is going to be impressed that I have one. My degree is also officially an MA LIS, and I feel like if that was on my cards I’d probably wind up having to say “It’s the same thing as an MLS, that’s just what my school called it – and yes, it’s ALA-accredited” a lot.
If I had a Ph.D. then I might include that on my business cards since I’m in academia and it might give me a little (probably very little) extra clout with professors and students.