Similar to resumes, traditional job descriptions feel outdated. There is a lack of standardization in the industry, some mention compensation, some mention hard requirements, some are more flexible in requirements.
I'm curious if you were to build a job description standard, what types of fields would you want included? Some ideas of the top of my head:
- Compensation Bands
- If hard requirements are present, an explanation of why (i.e we don't have capacity for mentorship, so we are looking for X years of work experience)
- LinkedIn of the hiring manager
- LinkedIn of the existing team
- A detailed over of the interview process
Would love to know what others think!
In CI/CD/SRE jobs there is a tendency to put into job requirements every tool from the last decade that apparently local team heard of. Later it becomes obvious that the company is using maybe 10% of them. Recruiters don't care, as they very often don't understand a single word from the requirements. Candidates ignore that because they got used to it. Employer teams continue to do that, maybe because they think the more requirements they put, the team looks more sophisticated (while the reality is opposite: if I see requirements for the tech that can't work together, I see it as a bs). And the circus continues.
Definitely there is a space for improvement. It is big as a galaxy.