The job description is perhaps the most underutilized yet extremely important piece of information available to help you find, identify, and select a potential new hire. In my experience, the way most people put together a job description includes simply pulling out the previous description, changing some dates, and moving some things around. There you go, it must be ready to be posted. WHAT A MISTAKE!! When you do this, you are just looking to make a bad hire. Even worse, you are setting that person up for failure, and they don't even know it. Before you make that next hire, do yourself a favor and give some good thought to the job description. Consider the job description as a list of the activities that your new hire will be accountable for. It will pay off down the road.
If you have experiences to share with job descriptions,positive or negative, please post your comments. I am interested to hear what you have to say.
Recent Comments