Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Yes, so you finally managed to get a half-decent job post up on the web. You may even have an idea of how to pitch it to work. So next up you trust it to web sites and . . .
. . . er.
Yeah.
Let me get it out of the way – all these neat job search and posting sites to help you find people aren’t the end-all-be-all solution. In a few cases they might be the problem.
OK, so maybe a recruiter gets out a really good job posting. They may have written it themselves, had someone else do it, had a team effort, whatever. Either way it stands out from the bland, bullet-pointed nightmare of most job postings.
Then it doesn’t work.
See, here’s a terrible irony, a job posting that is well-written, clear, concise, perfect can still fail colossally – and you may not know why.
Let’s put this simply – most job postings are horribly written, boring, inaccurate, and usually are near-meaningless laundry lists of stats and years of experience. Those that aren’t too long are usually stupidly short. The end result is:
In short, job postings are lousy and they don’t get the right people.
Who’s to blame? Actually, there’s really no one to blame for this – it’s another case of the system breaking down.