2 Analyze the Job
Hiring Manager: “I need to hire a developer/tester/writer.”
HR Rep: “Okay. What does that person do?”
Hiring Manager: “Engineering . . . development . . . testing . . . writing, of course. A little bit of this, a little bit of that.”
You’ve defined your hiring strategy, so you know the problems you want to solve. Now it’s time to define the kinds of people you need at what level to solve those problems. Most technical people do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but that’s not even close to a job description.
You may already have a high-level idea of what you want to see in potential candidates. If you write a job analysis you will avoid laundry-list job descriptions and short-hand job descriptions. Laundry ...
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