Craft IT Staffing Job Descriptions That Attract the Best Talent

Since the first exposure that many job seekers have of your company is through your job posting, it only makes sense to craft it as effectively as possible. An effective IT job description should attract talent and filter out less suitable candidates. With this in mind, consider some of the requirements of great job descriptions.

Make job details clear: It’s important to think about the details that ideal candidates want to know before they apply for a job. It might help to survey some current employees to learn why they wanted their position and believed they would make a good employee. These are some of the basic details to include:

• Salary range and benefits
• Job title and position within the company hierarchy
• Job requirements, including ideal skills and education
• Job location and travel requirements

Format it for the media: Today’s IT candidates usually find job postings online. It’s helpful to use subheadings and bulleted lists to make it easy for prospects to scan a listing quickly. This way, candidates can make a quick decision to learn more about the opportunity or pass it by. This should help attract better applications and allow less suitable candidates to filter themselves out.

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Crafting IT Job Descriptions That Attract, Not Repel

Because of the competition for IT staff, job postings should be regarded as a type of sales letter. It’s important to make sure that job descriptions attract qualified prospects and don’t contain errors that could frighten off the best people. To understand how bad job descriptions can frighten off IT talent, it might be helpful to look at an example.

Consider a recruiting email that Information Week reported on. This email was intended to get passed around by IT people to attract candidates for a job position that might become vacant soon. The problem is that the email described the current employee in the job as terminally ill and mentioned that the department needed to fill the position before he got too sick to work or died. The email also mentioned that the individual still made it into work each day and would be around to help train his replacement.

It’s not inappropriate for a company to take proactive measures to find and train an employee to fill a soon-to-be-vacant position. At the same time, many people who read the email thought that releasing this information publicly was insensitive. It reflected poorly on the way the company treated their loyal employee. A better solution could have been to mention the situation to qualified candidates during a personal interview and leave it out of a public message.

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