<p>I've helped my dad run the family business since I was very young. It's a small private enterprise, similar to an antique shop/pawn shop. The only "employees" are those of the family - me and my two brothers. The tasks that I do are myriad; I basically do ANYTHING that's needed. There's no definite title that my father (the owner) has given to me - so the decision is left to my discretion. What title should I give myself on college apps? I was thinking: assistant CEO, vice president, etc.</p>
<p>//I was thinking: assistant CEO, vice president, etc.//</p>
<p>Umm, I’m thinking no.</p>
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<p>Sounds like your “family”'s front is a pawn shop, huh? Excellent choice, waste management is cliched. Call yourself top goon.</p>
<p>"//I was thinking: assistant CEO, vice president, etc.//</p>
<p>Umm, I’m thinking no."</p>
<p>LOL, agreed.</p>
<p>Serious suggestions please…</p>
<p>It’s not like I’m trying to BS some position title. College apps ask for your position and I’m trying to be legit. If any of you business gurus out there know an adequate title, please suggest.</p>
<p>What about manager?</p>
<p>Don’t seem pretentious. If you started your own company, call yourself the CEO. But in a family business, really no matter what, do not say that your title is “VP” or “asst. CEO” because you make it appear that you are fluffing up your job description. Keep it simple, yet professional.</p>
<p>Also, describing it as a “family business” could be deleterious because it makes it appear that you had to get your parents gice you a job. If you are being sincere, that is obviously not the case, but cast it in a good light, one that is salubrious.</p>
<p>If you aren’t given a title I wouldn’t try to make one up, I would just put “NA” in that box and write a description of what you do somewhere, either in the the description box if there’s room or in the additional information section. Or if it’s a big part of your life write your EC blurb about it. Idk I just think coming up with a false title is a bad idea.</p>
<p>@wombat soup: It is not a FALSE title. I am the CEO, I am the manager, I am the VP, I am the President, I am everything. This is because it’s a family business with only a few employees so everybody basically does everything (including what a CEO, VP, manager, President, etc would do). If applicable, I would call myself the “God” of the company because I do EVERYTHING - narrowing it down to a specific title actually serves to limit the extent of what I do. However, since the apps are asking for a specific title, that is what I plan to give. </p>
<p>@big dreamer: Manager sounds decent. It’s a respectable position yet something not as pompous as CEO. Of course, in the description of the job I explain exactly what it is that I do - which is much more than “managing”. </p>
<p>I’m still debating though; asst. CEO sounds good as hell, and it would be legit 
How many other kids actually have a legit position as CEO?</p>
<p>I would call yourself God. This is particularly applicable is applying to Liberty or Pensacola.</p>
<p>Manager would probably work. The reason I called the titles you listed false is because they are corporate titles. A pawn shop/antique shop run by a family would not have a CEO, or a VP, or a President, or what have you. It would have a manager though so that would be a possible title. Though I stand by my suggestion that you just describe what you do.</p>
<p>Manager sounds good.</p>
<p>“If applicable, I would call myself the “God” of the company”</p>
<p>LOL, OMG. kidding or not, that’s fuc*ing hilarious.</p>
<p>have u even tried looking up ‘CEO’?</p>
<p>“A chief executive officer (CEO) or chief executive is one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators in charge of total management. An individual selected as president and CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency, reports to the board of directors.”
does ANY of this even apply to u? didn’t think so.</p>
<p>sorry, you don’t really have a grasp on business. the title of CEO is not appropriate in your case and definitely not legit. And I’m not sure how many kids there are that are “legit CEOs”. Most of them are probably ■■■■■■■■ like you and give themselves that title.</p>
<p>You work in your family business. That’s a good thing. Just describe the work you do. Unless you really have a title, don’t give yourself one. It would seem silly to call yourself CEO. But if you are primarily a salesman, you could say that, for example.
Besides, this isn’t an EC–it’s employment.</p>
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<p>Zing! good burn.</p>
<p>if you call your self the ceo you will seem like an ass</p>
<p>Title at job : CEO
Job : Pawn Shop owned by my father.</p>
<p>If I was a college admissions officer and I saw that, I’d laugh my friggen ass off, show everyone else, and slap on a big fat REJECTION stamp.</p>
<p>You deserve a face palm.</p>
<p>‘A small private enterprise’ - LOL</p>
<p>Haha, ya, don’t say you are the CEO. You could maybe be the manager. Just elaborate on your attributions to the store and colleges will recognize your devotion to your job.</p>
<p>thread has backfired on the op.</p>
<p>Yeah, manager is actually your ebst bet. My family knows some people with family businesses, and only for like paperwork purposes or something, they have: Director of the Board, CEO, VP, etc. There is job description is owning some restaurants</p>
<p>You WILL get rejected/waitlisted for putting CEO. That is 100% wrong, trust me. Say manager, but say you are very versatile and do whatever myriad of jobs you do. Only time to put CEO is if you have an interent business or started a legit compnay like Gates did in HS, where he got paid by his Seattle to do all of the traffic programs, that is a legit CEO title. If you start a company that sells stuff, you can sorta call urself CEO, but not really. </p>
<p>Stick with manager as your best title, or only fill out the job description. Being a CEO is much more than being the man person running the show (as CEO is defined, in theory you “are” one, but in the most vague sense possible).</p>