To even further how this is crippling the process, I leave so many interviews wondering if I’ve told them what they need to hear more than what my capabilities are.

For example: The position is for a Visual Designer, but you get in the door and they’re asking you about designing for emails and page graphics and social media blasts, without realizing that the perfect person for them to hire is familiar with web and mobile standards as well as branding, marketing and communications strategies. You tell them that you’re predominantly a web designer and you’re off the table.

To this point, I think you’re right on the money with presenting a much more broad statements about the problems you solve, versus the titles you serve. I often find myself wondering why it’s necessary though. I guess we’ve still got a ways to go in design-centric thinking on a larger scale.