Job Posting Essentials

Efforts Required For Data Gathering

Use for data not decided first many a data-gathering effort has been like poking in a haystack to try to find the needle. The effort is excessively lengthy, it gathers data that will not be used, job analyses challenge workers unnecessarily. + read more

Should You Include Data Reporting Duties in a Job Description?

Job analyses, and job description preparation, if properly executed, can be expensive-at least until a system for gathering data and preparing JDs is established. + read more

Do You Know How to Use a Job Description?

Job descriptions are not adhered to. Incumbents must be thoroughly schooled and motivated to provide truthful data. This may require extensive orientation about the analysis. + read more

The Function of Job Descriptions in Maintaining Organizational Control

Quality and consistent structure in person specs, performance evaluation instruments, and job factor sheets can, therefore, not be obtained. Rather than use such JDs, they are ignored and efforts, independent of consideration of the job descriptions, are made to develop person specs, performance evaluation instruments, and job factor sheets. + read more

Why You Shouldn’t View Job Descriptions As Limiting Change

Job descriptions alone are of little value for measuring performance. They tell what areas to look at in evaluating performance but not how to measure it. + read more

9 Common Problems You Might Be Facing With Your Job Descriptions

It was just stated that job descriptions fail to cover general responsibilities that apply across many workers. But it is perhaps even more common and more of a problem when JDs do not reflect adequately the uniqueness of each different position. + read more

How to Write All-Encompassing Job Descriptions for Any Position

Job descriptions usually leave out discussions of the independent authority that can be exercised by the jobholder. What kinds of decisions can the incumbent make without navigating through the checks and balances of higher authorities and supervisors? + read more

Common Problems Faced During the Job Description Process

In practice, considerable problems exist with respect to job description use and preparation. They are neither used properly nor nearly as fully as they could be. + read more

How to Gather Data in Preparing for the Job Description

Data gathering for human resource management, however, is often not highly funded in organizations, though there is some evidence of a change in attitude on this matter. + read more

Action Verbs and Expected Results in Writing Duty Statements

Action verbs at the beginning of duty statements quickly inform the reader of the kind of action the person is engaged in. Properly chosen verbs tell, with some precision, what the person does. + read more