Try a different approach to job descriptions

You’re ready to hire. You conduct a search on your Google Drive and find the last job description you used for this role. 

Copy. 

Paste.

Or. What about trying something new? Like…

💡 Describing a “day in the life” on the job

💡 Using a storytelling approach to describe the “Rockstar” of this job

💡 Having the outgoing employee talk about the 5 things they learned on this job

Of course, you’ll only want to enlist your outgoing employee if that person is leaving on good terms. 

But the point is, make your job description engaging, unique, maybe even a little irreverent, and people will pay attention.

In my 30+ years in management, I’ve read a lot of job descriptions.  

I see companies regurgitate the same lackluster job descriptions as if continuing to do things this way will yield some magical outcome.

Add to that the fact that they need HR to approve every little change.

If you ask them why they do this, they will tell you “this is way we’ve always done it.”  

“just because…”

But in a year when doing things differently is the norm, maybe it’s time to shake things up in your job descriptions.

Try it!