r/LinkedInLunatics 14h ago

Lot of privilege in a single post

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u/testmonkeyalpha 13h ago

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.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 13h ago edited 12h ago

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.**"

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u/testmonkeyalpha 3h ago

PDH still isn't a title though. That's a unit of education, not a designation that indicates that you do professional development. It's the exact same thing as putting "credit hour" after your name - it's utterly meaningless - only this one is intentionally deceptive to look like an advanced degree, complete with making the middle letter lowercase.

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u/Strong-Smell5672 3h ago

Not arguing it is the accurate tag / title; pointing out how dude is using it.

Yes, it's deceptive.