Are you tired of sifting through unqualified job applicants?
If so, you need to level-up your job descriptions to attract the best and most relevant candidates.
The typical job description is, to put it mildly, pretty lame. Blocks of text. Bullet points. More bullet points. More text.
Something like this:
Tribal Knowledge Podcasting is looking for a producer to join our growing team. The producer will work with clients to produce, edit, and help launch podcasts.
Responsibilities include:
Working directly with clients to schedule and engineer remote recording sessions
Coaching show hosts on interviewing techniques
Producing, mixing, and sound designing episodes
Producing audiograms
Creating transcripts and managing transcript editing
Write show notes
Upload produced episodes to hosting platform or shared folder
Qualifications:
3+ years experience producing podcasts
Strong relationship builder and naturally collaborative leader
Ability to articulate ideas precisely and concisely
Exemplary communication skills and ability to work with corporate clients
About Tribal Knowledge Podcasting
Tribal Knowledge Podcasting helps businesses launch and produce podcasts for marketing and internal communications. We believe strongly in audio as a powerful marketing and business communications medium and do our best to help our clients tap into a growing trend and leverage the unique power of audio to engage their customers, gain new customers, and energize and inspire their employees.
There's nothing technically wrong with this job description. It's just ... boring. It looks like every other job description. It doesn't say much, or anything, about what makes this position different from other similar positions. It doesn't give applicants a strong sense of what the job is like day-to-day or about the company's core values.
But what if the job description looked like this:
Position: Associate Producer
Watch the video to learn more about the position
Tribal Knowledge Associate Producer
For a more in-depth description of this and other positions, subscribe to the "Tribal Knowledge Careers" podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts.
More information
Responsibilities include:
Working directly with clients to schedule and engineer remote recording sessions
Coaching show hosts on interviewing techniques
Producing, mixing, and sound designing episodes
Producing audiograms
Creating transcripts and managing transcript editing
Write show notes
Upload produced episodes to hosting platform or shared folder
Qualifications:
3+ years experience producing podcasts
Strong relationship builder and naturally collaborative leader
Ability to articulate ideas precisely and concisely
Exemplary communication skills and ability to work with corporate clients
About Tribal Knowledge Podcasting
Tribal Knowledge Podcasting helps businesses launch and produce podcasts for marketing and internal communications. We believe strongly in audio as a powerful marketing and business communications medium and do our best to help our clients tap into a growing trend and leverage the unique power of audio to engage their customers, gain new customers, and energize and inspire their employees.
You still have the obligatory bullet points, but the video gives applicants a much more nuanced and useful sense of what the job is and what the employer is looking for. And the podcast goes into even more depth about what the job entails and what sorts of applicants are most likely to thrive in the position and at the company.
Contact us to begin sprucing up your job descriptions and to attract better candidates.
