Boss suggested title change
Currently an investment associate working on the GP side. I predominately underwrite developments, but will assist our acquisitions team quite a bit as well. My boss has asked if I would like to change my title from Investment Associate to Development Associate. Seeing as that I want to work on the dev side moving forward I see this as a good thing. Any pros/cons to this would be appreciated.
Depends on what you want to do longer term - I feel investment associate is broad enough to not limit your exit oops, while development associate might somewhat pigeonhole you in the eyes of recruiters
End of the day, doesn’t matter for day to day I don’t think. Unless boss plans on throwing more work at you with no comp increase
How about just "Investment & Development Associate"? Simple enough.
This completely doesn't matter unless you want to work at the most peg in hole corporate firms, in which case it only mostly doesn't matter
Kinda sorta but mostly doesn’t matter. Got it
I don't think it matters. Titles tend to have so much variation in how they get interpreted and are pretty minimal in meaning. I think they are great when they properly align with your goals or benefit you, but otherwise everyone is going to talk about your experience, not your title.
Makes sense. Thanks for the input
Titles are so arbitrary in real estate. Just as an example, I'm about to move jobs from a family office to a large institutional shop, it's a lateral move in terms of job responsibility (the big change is geography), but my title is going from VP Development to Senior Associate. Maybe someone down the line will misinterpret that and think I took a step down, but I'm not sweating it. My actual job experience is growing and any future employer who is worth a damn will look past a title and see what I'm actually capable of doing.
And you dont even have to put senior associate on Linkedin. You can just put Development at xxx or Acquisitions at xxx. People will just assume that you went from a VP to a a role with a similar or better title.
Titles mean nothing, all about that bag $$
Get what's yours
Oh you nasty
They could call you Cock and Ball Torture Associate and it wouldn’t matter. If you underwrite, close and manage acquisition and development deals, your title is irrelevant
Did you have a seizure while writing this?
My boss is thinking of changing my title from “RE Acquisitions Analyst” to “RE Investment Analyst”. What impact will this have on my career? I’ve been in this role about 18 months and prior to this role I worked as a Dominatrix focusing on Cock and Ball Torture. Any advice would be helpful.
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