The Bureau of Labor Statistics, who took over the task of counting jobs, now lists 50 health care and medical professions alone.

Professional workers in the 21st century account for 24% of all employees. All those jobs mean two things for us here at Dayspring:

Opportunities to award and reward employees with our personalized, engraved, “fancy pants” pens and fine writing implements

AND

A plethora of acronyms and abbreviations for all those jobs and positions to include in those engravings

That’s what this article is here to help you with—getting all those occupational acronyms and abbreviations right.

Now, we realize we can’t give you every abbreviation and acronym for every occupation. There are over 4,000 recognized “official” ones, after all.

Instead, what we have done is chosen the more popular and/or commonly used ones from the following fields:

Medical

Management

Finance and Accounting

Sales and Marketing

IT

Let’s get this ball rolling, shall we? 

Medical Occupation Abbreviations and Acronyms

Doctor of Medicine	MD
Nurse Practitioner	CRNP
Registered Nurse	RN
Licensed Practical Nurse	LPN
Certified Nursing Assistant/Aide	CNA
Doctor of Dental Surgery	DDS
Registered Dietician	RD
Physical Therapist	PT
Emergency Medical Technician	EMT
Veterinarian	DVM

A key event just perfect for gifting your hard-working nursing staff with practical, lovely, and engravable gift pens is National Nurses’ Week. It begins every year on 6 May and ends on 12 May, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Perhaps one like the model below?

Cross Click Midnight Blue Ballpoint Pen

Key Management Team Members

Your business can’t run without the leadership at the top. They deserve all the credit and rewards you can heap upon them for keeping your management system and your firm going strong day after day. 

Here are some of their more commonly used acronyms and abbreviations.

Chief Executive Officer (the BIG boss)	CEO
Chief Operating Officer (the almost Big Boss)	COO
Chief Finance Officer (the money boss)	CFO
Chief Marketing Officer (the ad boss)	CMO
Chief Information Officer (the data boss)	CIO

October 16 is Boss’s Day every year, and wouldn’t your group of “boss” people be pleased to receive an engraved executive gift pen from you? How do you like the looks of this one?

Waterman Expert Stainless Steel Rollerball

Finance and Accounting Abbreviations and Acronyms

Bean counters. Penny Processors. Number crunchers. Your finance and accounting professionals have their own “fun” names and terms for themselves and their department.

And while an acronym like “Acct.” might be on the door or business card, there are many other recognized acronyms and abbreviations for these ledger-loving folks. Here’s a table with some of the more common ones.

Chief Accounting Officer	CAO
Chartered Financial Analyst	CFA
Certified Internal Auditor	CIA
Enrolled Agent	EA
Certified Public Accountant	CPA
Certified Financial Manager	CFM
Certified Management Accountant	CMA
Licensed Stock Broker/Dealer	BD
Certified Payroll Professional	CPP
Certified Financial Planner	CFP
Registered Investment Advisor	RIA
Qualified (Independent) Underwriter	QA/QIA
Chief Compliance Officer	CCO

Reward your money men and women with an executive gift fountain pen, like the one below. Accountants and auditors need different colors of ink, and the various colors available in fountain pen cartridges fit the bill quite nicely. 

Abbreviations and Acronyms for Sales and Marketing Professionals

No business can thrive without customers, and the network of people who bring in those customers through sales and marketing are invaluable to every firm, from the mom-and-pop on the corner to the Fortune 100s.

Whether you’re one of those on the corner or in the corner office 80 floors up, rewarding your sales and marketing network of champions with personalized engraved pens is always a smart action to take.

Here are some common abbreviations and acronyms for those whose occupation is getting customers through your door.

Chief Marketing Officer	CMO
Account Executive	AE
Account Manager	AM
Director of Sales	DoS
Business Development Representative	BDR
Marketing Qualification Representative	MQR
Lead Development Representative	LDR
Sales Development Representative	SDR
Social Media Manager/Marketer	SMM

Your sales and marketing team is undoubtedly made up of a group of highly trained, skilled, and creative individuals. Gifting them all the same pen may not be a wise choice.

Choosing from the variety of styles and colors available in our Cross Bailey line is probably the better solution.

Here’s a stylish rollerball in red lacquer finish. You can even get the engraving in several color choices, as well. Check out the entire collection.

Cross Bailey Red Lacquer Selectip Rollerball Pen

Here’s what one happy executive customer had to say:

Information Technology Abbreviations and Acronyms

Your “geek squad” is made up of individuals who are highly trained, highly skilled, and, yes, typically just a little geeky-nerdy on the side.

That shouldn’t stop you from recognizing their contributions to your business’s safety, security, and success.

This table shows you most of the more common IT occupation abbreviations and acronyms to take the glitches out of engraving their personalized pen gifts.

Chief Information Officer	CIO
Chief Security Officer	CSO
Certified Systems Administrator	CSA
Certified Professional App Developer	CPAD
Computer Emergency Readiness Team	CERT
Certified Information Technology Professional	CITP
Certified Systems Engineer	CSE
Computer Science Professional Engineer	CSPE
A certified technician who can diagnose, repair, and administer both hardware and software systems	CompTIA A+
Database Administer	DBA

We have the perfect high-tech gift pen for your high-tech personnel, the Cross Tech3+. It has three different writing tips, as well as a touch screen stylus in the cap end. And it comes in a fun and functional translucent red finish.

Here it is:

Cross Tech3+ Pen - Translucent Red

Some FAQs About Our Gift Pens

While we’ve given you plenty of info about abbreviations and acronyms for members of your company, and even some awesome (if we do say so ourselves) ideas for personalized engraved gift pens, you may still have a few questions.

We’ll try to answer them for you, but if you have more, please leave us a comment below or contact our wonderful customer service representatives (CSRs). 

How long does it take to engrave a gift pen?

It takes less than a day to engrave one gift pen. Bulk orders for an entire team or department will naturally take a bit longer due to the larger number of pens ordered. 

What happens if something is wrong with my order?

We try our best, but we’re only human, and sometimes things do go wonky. Simply call, email, or use our contact form and we’ll do our best to correct the issue. Here’s one customer’s experience with us:

Gabriela | Customer Review

Oops! I forgot my ______’s big day. Do you do rush orders? 

Yes, we do! You can learn all about our Rush Order One Day Business Service. Don’t fret about your forgetfulness. We’ve got your back.

And with that, we’re through for today. Any questions, comments, folks we forgot? Let us know below, please.

Daniel Whitehouse is the President and CEO of Dayspring Pens. He uses his expertise with premium writing utensils to create exceptional, intentional products and craft easy-to-understand articles that help both new and experienced users learn more about their writing tools. He lives in Virginia where he and his wife are raising their four children. To learn more about him and his insights about custom engraved gift pens, follow Daniel on LinkedIn.