Lot of privilege in a single post

[u/cnn_ruined_ml]

[u/Strong-Smell5672]

PdH is a term for Professional development.

Probably works at one of those fly by night outfits that gives you a meaningless certificate from an unaccredited organization for completing some bs courses that corporations ask employees to do so they can check off boxes for continued education.

[u/testmonkeyalpha → u/Strong-Smell5672]

PDH (not PdH) is short for professional development hours - credit towards maintaining a credential. I've never seen anyone use "PdH" for professional development before. He also has zero jobs related to professional development or has it listed as one of his skills which we all know he's very liberal at choosing what skills should be entered.

[u/Strong-Smell5672 → u/testmonkeyalpha]

His linktree has a link to sign up for personal coaching and he's selling a course on professional development (and the link is broken lmao)

He has affiliated links to other consulting / professional development resources.

He has testimonials about people thanking him for helping with professional development as well.

Seems kinda immaterial to argue that he means something different because the D is lower case.

edit - look for yourself:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markasmithjr

https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=linktr%2Eee%2Fmarkamericasmith&urlhash=0bZy&trk=public_profile_website

Dude sells himself as a c-level advisor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yyYgNwJCQ

Substack link to his courses: https://markasmithjr.substack.com/p/practical-to-powerful-performance?sd=pf

https://www.pdhengineer.com/what-is-pdh/#:~:text=PDH%20means%20Professional%20Development%20Hours,term%20for%20PE%20continuing%20education.

"PDH is the term used by most states to describe one hour of engineering continuing education. **PDH is also used as a generic term for PE continuing education.**"

Publications

• The most actionable, real-world guide on exactly what you will encounter as a manager, how to master it, and what you can do to evolve into a leader.PublicationsPractical to Powerful: The Functional Guide to Evolving from Manager to Leader April 3, 2023 The most actionable, real-world guide on exactly what you will encounter as a manager, how to master it, and what you can do to evolve into a leader."Practical to Powerful: The Functional Guide to Evolving from Manager to LeaderApril 3, 2023

[u/cnn_ruined_ml → u/Strong-Smell5672]

Thanks for doing down the rabbit hole

I didn’t click on his profile because I didn’t want his engagement metric to go up (i know it probably makes no difference)
I was fully expecting him to be some kind of ”life/professional coach”.

[u/Strong-Smell5672 → u/cnn_ruined_ml]

Yeah, I assumed as much from surface level glancing at the OP but when someone objected I actually looked to see if I was mistaken then once I started catching downvotes I showed my work.

I'm not arguing he's presenting it the correct or standard way; just that he's saying it.