Letters after your name...

[chris cnc]

i wouldn't use my ND, but when i (hopefully) have a degree under my belt i would use that, but only for signing off relevant letters or on business cards etc, i wouldnt just stick it on any old form or put it on Christmas cards or anything

[markiesla]

It is a difficult one and is down to personal preference sphere in which you operate etc.

 

I remember my Dad telling my bank manager when I passed my BSc - the bank manager then added it to my cheque book. I was mortified!

 

Even now I only use my job title when I need to. It is not on my business cards etc as I want people to treat me as the person I am not what it says on my business card. Only when I feel the need to show some "clout" do I add it to my sign off.

 

One of my colleagues is a FCInstCES and he has it on his business cards, email signature etc. Arguably that is different as it is a professional body.

 

I must agree with Stephen though:

"Firstly time keeping, secondly vehicle, third appearance, 4th the way they carry themselves, 5th eye contact, 6th hand shake and general introduction." - although in a different order.

 

Does that make sense?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Anyone of us could fall foul of an unfortunate event and be late, so time keeping whilst is a big deal, should one late arrival be the judge of a man? how far did he travel?

 

Vehicle? I couldnt give a monkies what you drive, the day thats the measure of a man, I will be classed as the lowest scum!

 

appearence? can be decieving, my tatty old strtch airs and grubby jumper are the clothes of an arb, a real one, says NOTHING about the arb I am.

 

A mans abilities and character cant be gauged on such petty basis

[chris cnc]

my collegue and i regularly turn up to quote jobs in his little yellow fiat (same as the one the guy in the inbetweeners has). We win most of our quotes! must be the sympathy vote haha

[likeitorlumpit]

Anyone of us could fall foul of an unfortunate event and be late, so time keeping whilst is a big deal, should one late arrival be the judge of a man? how far did he travel?

 

Vehicle? I couldnt give a monkies what you drive, the day thats the measure of a man, I will be classed as the lowest scum!

 

appearence? can be decieving, my tatty old strtch airs and grubby jumper are the clothes of an arb, a real one, says NOTHING about the arb I am.

 

A mans abilities and character cant be gauged on such petty basis

 

Spot on

Though I do hate being late

Everyone knows the day the sat nav says you have 20mins extra to get there only to be caught in traffic and having to make phone call- judge a man on whether he remembered to take the customers phone number with him!

[Dean O]

I know of someone who uses Bsc after their name in their advertising - I feel that If you are going to add BSc for example to the end of your name on your business cards or marketing I think that its important that its a degree relevant to arb and not in media studies (no offence to any one who studied media).

 

If it isnt relevant then it could be percieved as being slightly misleading - and perhaps a little awkward when the client asks where you studied forestry or arb at degree level

[Mark Bolam]

hi Sam, you are diferent from me. By the time someone handed me a card i would have them in a category already, and that category will change as the meeting unfolds.

Firstly time keeping, secondly vehicle, third appearance, 4th the way they carry themselves, 5th eye contact, 6th hand shake and general introduction.

If they handed me a card straight away i would either think they were nervous or full of it. And that would depend on how they handed it to me. Then the card would tell me something too, quality of print, quality of card etc etc.

I dont know what any of the letters mean, i know there is no 'letters ' police and making cards up is very simple.

I have a range of cards and advertising gimicks to cover a wide range of person, i think you should have something similar and only hand over the right ones to the right person:thumbup1:

 

Utter pish. You are one of my best mates on Arbtalk. Lets look at our first meeting.

1) Late - delayed on M1 with Deano etc.

2) you cadged a lift

3) Dishevelled appearance after a 15 hour journey....

 

You made a good impression from then on mate, but it shows that you can't always apply rigid rules.

 

Yours,

Mark Bolam

Somewhat surprisingly BEng (hons)

From a proper University (Sheffield)

Before Polytechnics all became Universities as well and watered down my achievement.

[Bolt]

Anyone of us could fall foul of an unfortunate event and be late, so time keeping whilst is a big deal, should one late arrival be the judge of a man? how far did he travel?

 

Vehicle? I couldnt give a monkies what you drive, the day thats the measure of a man, I will be classed as the lowest scum!

 

appearence? can be decieving, my tatty old strtch airs and grubby jumper are the clothes of an arb, a real one, says NOTHING about the arb I am.

 

A mans abilities and character cant be gauged on such petty basis

 

But its a tragic shame how often they are.

[likeitorlumpit]

Utter pish. You are one of my best mates on Arbtalk. Lets look at our first meeting.

1) Late - delayed on M1 with Deano etc.

2) you cadged a lift

3) Dishevelled appearance after a 15 hour journey....

 

You made a good impression from then on mate, but it shows that you can't always apply rigid rules.

 

Yours,

Mark Bolam

Somewhat surprisingly BEng (hons)

From a proper University (Sheffield)

Before Polytechnics all became Universities as well and watered down my achievement.

 

Is that Batchelor of engineering?