Your New Job Title: Ninja.

The folks over at Mashable.com have discovered an incredible trend on LinkedIn that “Ninja” is literally climbing the ropes as a legit job title (dethroning the more peaceful “Gurus”).  Although not necessarily steeped in the arts of sabotage, espionage, infiltration, assassination, kung fu, the neo-ninjas of today usually occupy jobs in social media, design, customer service, advertising and finance.  Go figure.

But lets take a deeper look, perhaps ninjas and these jobs aren’t so far apart.

Social Media: Infiltration

Design: Espionage (OK a stretch, but how about some good ol’ Banksy… droppin’ design bombs)

Customer Service: Sabotage (i.e. call your mobile phone provider and see the ninja at work)

Advertising: Again Espionage and throw in some Sabotage for good measure.

Finance: No explanation needed.

What kind of Ninja are you?  More after the jump…