Recruiting analytics company Datapeople offers the company's best practices for creating job description templates that provide structure to job ads and enhance the candidate experience.
3 Tips for Creating Templates for
Job Descriptions
Writing job posts is time-consuming and
often tedious for hiring managers,
especially ones who don’t like to write. And
getting all job posts uniform across the
company for a better candidate experience
and workflow can be difficult depending on
how you do it.
Here are three tips (four,
really) for addressing both of
these issues and more with
job description templates.
The target audience of job descriptions
is job seekers. Hiring teams aren’t
writing for your human resources
department or legal department. That
may be the most important thing to
remember when it comes to job
description templates.
Job description templates can establish a
uniform experience for all potential
candidates, regardless of job, location,
department, or any other factor. And job
description templates should prompt hiring
teams to include everything a job seeker may
want to know about the job and your
company.
Tailor your job description templates to your
business. If you’re a startup, it’s likely that job
seekers won’t know your brand. You may
want to include your company info section at
the beginning. If you’re a household name,
you don’t have to say as much about the
company.
Tailor your job description
templates to your jobs. Create a
library of different custom
templates for different job types,
departments, seniority levels,
locations, et cetera.
Take advantage of job description
templates to create uniformity and
improve workflow. Write the company
info, benefits, perks, and diversity and
inclusion sections. Then make sure
they’re in every job description
template you create.
With a library of templates, your
hiring teams can open a new,
optimized job post in just a few
clicks. If they only have to worry
about responsibilities and
requirements, their workload is a
whole lot lighter.
Bonus: Don't forget benefits. A lot of
companies skip the benefits section.
Don’t do that. Even if you link out to
your benefits section on your
careers page, not all job seekers will
actually click the link.
This goes back to candidate experience.
Why make a job seeker hunt down your
benefits list or click on a link to learn more
when you can tell them right in the job
description? It may sound like a small
thing. But you’re asking job seekers to
take an extra step.
Contact Us At:
https://datapeople.io/
Job Descriptions
Writing job posts is time-consuming and
often tedious for hiring managers,
especially ones who don’t like to write. And
getting all job posts uniform across the
company for a better candidate experience
and workflow can be difficult depending on
how you do it.
Here are three tips (four,
really) for addressing both of
these issues and more with
job description templates.
The target audience of job descriptions
is job seekers. Hiring teams aren’t
writing for your human resources
department or legal department. That
may be the most important thing to
remember when it comes to job
description templates.
Job description templates can establish a
uniform experience for all potential
candidates, regardless of job, location,
department, or any other factor. And job
description templates should prompt hiring
teams to include everything a job seeker may
want to know about the job and your
company.
Tailor your job description templates to your
business. If you’re a startup, it’s likely that job
seekers won’t know your brand. You may
want to include your company info section at
the beginning. If you’re a household name,
you don’t have to say as much about the
company.
Tailor your job description
templates to your jobs. Create a
library of different custom
templates for different job types,
departments, seniority levels,
locations, et cetera.
Take advantage of job description
templates to create uniformity and
improve workflow. Write the company
info, benefits, perks, and diversity and
inclusion sections. Then make sure
they’re in every job description
template you create.
With a library of templates, your
hiring teams can open a new,
optimized job post in just a few
clicks. If they only have to worry
about responsibilities and
requirements, their workload is a
whole lot lighter.
Bonus: Don't forget benefits. A lot of
companies skip the benefits section.
Don’t do that. Even if you link out to
your benefits section on your
careers page, not all job seekers will
actually click the link.
This goes back to candidate experience.
Why make a job seeker hunt down your
benefits list or click on a link to learn more
when you can tell them right in the job
description? It may sound like a small
thing. But you’re asking job seekers to
take an extra step.
Contact Us At:
https://datapeople.io/