The associate degree and doctorate do not have apostrophes. The bachelor's and master's degrees do. Others, being used generically, you don't need to capitalize the speech, just the abbreviations. CMOS advises, however, that academic degrees be capitalized when used in listings or when displayed on a resume. Written by Carol Green, Associate Editor. Initials of job title. Initials are a type of abbreviation that uses a capital letter to represent an entire word. Jobs that have initials, such as management jobs such as CEO or COO, are always capitalized. Just like job titles are capitalized in a person's name, so are they. Capitalize on degree programs. One of the resume capitalization rules that you should pay special attention to is curriculum capitalization. Here are the rules to remember. 1. You must capitalize the name of the study program if it is a proper noun or if it refers to a specific subject you have studied. Usually these proper nouns are.