Job Descriptions - are yours reflecting the problems you need employees to solve?

Companies ultimately hire to solve a problem in their business, whether that's too much admin, a team needing managing or a hole in your revenue, but too many use generic HR created job descriptions that don't reflect what the business actually needs the employee to get a grip of, and the contribution the business needs in return for the financial package on offer.

It's why we never accept a Job Description as a brief. 

We want to know what the new employee is being brought into fix, and the internal and external challenges they face in trying to do so. 

When we get our heads around that, we can start to truly understand the type of person and skills required. Moreover, we can now screen and interview robustly against the actual needs of of our client and serve them properly.

Common sense to us, but as we all know, common sense isn't common in recruitment.

We are sure there will be some agents just matching keywords on a CV with keywords on a Job Description, and we imagine it fails nine times out of ten.