Academic and professional qualifications
Use maximal capitals when listing qualifications after a person’s name, or in a résumé:
Jane Jones, Advanced Diploma – Accounting
Lukas Kalovski, Graduate Diploma of Language Teaching
John Brown, Master of Environmental Science
See Abbreviations and contractions for information on abbreviating qualifications.
Job titles
Use maximal capitals for full formal job titles:
but do not capitalise these terms when used generically:
She was appointed as an adjunct professor.
A chief accountant is responsible for …
Larger companies usually have a general manager as well as a chief executive officer.
We have a vacancy for a human resources manager.
Always capitalise job titles when they are associated with the name of the person currently holding that position, including in address blocks and resumés. Job titles can also be capitalised in internal organisational documents when referring to a specific role.
Job titles may be shortened after their first use in the text. Whether to use capitals for shortened forms depends on whether the shortened form consists only of the generic component (e.g. the minister) or retains some significant part of the descriptor (e.g. the Environment Minister). An exception to this rule is for the shortened titles of current Australian and foreign heads of state, which always take maximal capitals.
Do not capitalise plurals of job titles or former holders of the position.
Examples to illustrate these conventions are set out in the table.
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