You capitalize a job title when it functions as part of a person’s formal name, most often when it appears immediately before the name. Day to day, in most other uses—including after a name, by itself, or as a general description—you lowercase it. Understanding this distinction makes titles such as president, director, professor, and chief executive officer much easier to use correctly Most people skip this — try not to. Turns out it matters..
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Introduction
Job titles name a person’s role, but they are not automatically proper nouns. A word such as manager remains lowercase when it refers to any manager. It becomes part of a formal identifier when attached directly to a particular
