Your Job Description is a List of Scars
Business Resources One
Your job description might not describe the person you need. It might describe every person who burned you before.
The commute radius. The exact software experience. The number of years required. The bilingual requirement. Each one may have a perfectly reasonable story behind it.
But there’s a difference between what the job actually requires and the fix you created after the last time something went wrong.
In this episode, Mike Voories breaks down how job descriptions slowly become a list of scars — and how those old requirements can shrink your candidate pool, extend your search, and sometimes screen out better people for the job.
The challenge this week: Take the job description for the seat you’re trying to fill and ask where every requirement actually came from.
If you can name the person who caused you to add it, it may be worth another look.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Your Job Description Is a List of Scars
0:58 Nobody Writes A Job Description From Scratch
2:16 It's Not A Need. It's A Fix.
3:26 A Couple People Said The Drive Was Too Long
4:20 The Stuff You Could Teach In A Month
5:42 The Bilingual One
7:33 So You Want Me To Lower My Standards
8:58 What The Seat Costs
9:24 Your Challenge This Week
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