"Manager" - That's Kiss of Death on Resumes/Cover Letters/LinkedIn Profiles
When American business had been the top dog in international trade its "management" was hailed as the key variable. Experts on management, from Peter Drucker to Alfred Sloan, were revered. Rosabeth Moss Kanter got in on it too. Now with so many new moving parts in the global economy and all of them intersecting in unexpected ways a lot more is required than managing and fewer businesses are willing to pay for that stand-alone role. Recently Google announced, for cost-efficiency, up to 10% of managers at all levels would go. Citi, UPS and Amazon are doing likewise. Overall there is a flattening of organizational layers , reducing demand for those managerial functions. Therefore, the role of "manager" in job search materials not only doesn't give the edge, as it once had: Look I worked my way up to manager. It can knock you out of the box. Instead, take an audit of your skills and quantify accomplishments, then create descriptions in the language of the key...