Comments on: Most job descriptions are boring

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:32:48 +0000

It’s kind of funny, but I just published a blog entry about this very topic because I get so fed up with reading the same boring job descriptions filled with buzzwords that mean next to nothing to me. Most job descriptions remind me of college course descriptions. By the time you are done reading them, you are left thinking “so what will I be doing?”

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:24:38 +0000

Down with cookie cutter job descriptions!

We’ve tried to follow suit with this role description for our team…

http://www.escapethecity.org/opportunities/20801

By: Nicola

Nicola — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:58:22 +0000

I think the problem is that companies have been used to an excess of qualified, and at times overqualified, applicants for every job and have got lazy. They don’t seem to realise that if they don’t want cookie cutter employees, they can’t keep churning out cookie cutter ads.

We’ve become a very risk-averse society generally, terrifying kids in school to believe that they have to make themselves into the perfect employee or they’ll never get one of the few university places and then one of the even fewer jobs. If we could promote creativity and inspiration, asking people what they want to do and what problems they want to solve, instead of how to fit themselves into a box, then maybe we could bury the idea of the “good enough” ad for the “good enough” employee.