Peter,

If I were in your shoes I'd take every opportunity I have to let people know that I have a Ph.D.

I don't know if this is a north american thing but over here people reacts strongly to title, honors, trophys won...

Sometimes it's even laughable. Almost anything can be used to fill an empty space on a resume. Something like "Won a bowling trophy in 1997 for always being the first to show up at every game."

The mentality about that SHOW ANYTHING looks to me like this. "I don't know and I can't show much but at least I won a trophy. That other guy applying for the job does'nt even mention a trophy on his resume". So you see the potential danger. You don't tell about your Ph.D. and the guy that tells about his bowling trophy gets the job 8-D

You say that your Ph.D.'s irrelevant. I don't get it. That proves something about you. At least it proves that you have the potential to learn stuff and succeed.


>>For myself, I don't put MVP in my sig block because the award is for what you've done (past tense). There's no guarantee that what I post to-day will be correct.
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>I think I understand your feelings. Personally, I have a Ph.D., but I don't use it, not here, not on my business card, not in my signatures on letters. Simply because I think it's irrelevant in those cases. But the fact is that I DO have it. I made an effort somewhere in the past to get the degree. And although I don't want to emphasize this achievement, I also do not want people to completely neglect or ignore it, as if I never made that achievement.
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>Same for you. Somewhere in the past you got your MVP award(s) based on what you did in that year. You apparently don't want to emphasize it, and you think it's somewhat irrelevant for what you can mean for the community this year. But you have the right to show us that you got the award, and we have the right to know it.
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>George, I propose that you put something like 'MVP 2003-2004' in your sig. It is the way to go if you don't want to put 'MVP' there.
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>One last word about this. A person who got the award in 1999 and 2000 can no longer show a simple 'MVP' in the sig. But 'MVP 1999-2000' is still possible. However, he/she might think that such a sig could have a negative effect, since people might start wondering why this person no longer got the award. However, I think that people should realize that there can be many legitimate reasons for this.