What's In A Name?

How much do job titles matter, anyways? A Systems Administrator by any other name would do just as much work.

Think back, think of your most ridiculous title. Almost everyone can think of a title they've had (or seen) that was downright absurd, or had no relation whatsoever to the job's actual functions. Sometimes job titles are so vague as to be meaningless. Others are simply meaningless inflation, either to assuage workers in want of a raise or to mask the fact that there is no room for upward movement. It's not a rare occurrence that someone is "promoted" from Senior Director to Executive Director with no change in job responsibilities.

To stick with our first example, how many titles can you think of that apply to the maintenance and optimization of an office's computers? System Administrator, Network Administrator, LAN/WAN Administrator, Network Support... I'm sure you can think of more. While sometimes in very large organizations these can be different roles, most people who have these titles have near in-differentiable job responsibilities.

Confused about what your title might be if you were working at another organization? CompTIA has a TechCareer Compass to help IT folks narrow down just what title (most classically) applies to them, or discover the job functions that are most normally associated with a job title (no matter what you might actually be doing).

While this Compass can point you toward an apt title, it unfortunately can't direct you right to that next perfect job opportunity. Fortunately, that's where Comrise comes in. Happy job hunting!

Summer Picnic Success!

Hi folks,

Sorry for the delay in this post, it's taken nearly all week to recover from last weekend, when we had our Summer Picnic. We invited our consultants and our clients to join us for a day of fun and games (and food! and a raffle!) at Black Bear Lake in Millstone Township, NJ. Despite the less-than-ideal (but at least not rainy) weather, over 200 people came out to relax and have fun with us.

For those of you who weren't able to join us, we had:

food and drink	beer and wine	funnel cake and sno cones
3 swimming pools	a lake	2 water trampolines
paddleboating	canoeing	kayaking
tennis	basketball	volleyball
a three-legged race	tug of war	water balloon toss

Shall I go on?

2 rock walls	laser tag	2 moon-bounces
segway rides	water slides	a 37 foot slip'n'slide

It was loads of fun, and we're glad we could share it with our clients and consultants! If you're reading this now and want to come join us next year, you know what to do - join us as either a client or a consultant, it's that easy!


For the rest of the pictures, check out our Facebook page.

Congratulations Orjon!

Here we go again, another fantastic Comrise consultant getting recognized by one of our clients for his excellent performance and work ethic. Kudos to Orjon for consistent outstanding performance!

This of course was a great opportunity for Comrise as well to recognize and reward his accomplishments - so we did! Pictured below are Tony DiGiovanni (Director of Consultant Relations, left), Pat Hagen (Senior Account Executive, right), and our outstanding consultant Orjon (center). After an enjoyable lunch, we gifted Orjon with great tickets to a Yankee game!

Orjon, thanks once again for your excellent work. We sincerely appreciate it. Keep up the good work!