NachoTips: Chore CEO Adam Spector Highlights The Risks of Lazy Hiring

26 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Adam Spector, CEO of Chore, critiques the common practice of creating vague or lazy job descriptions when hiring for any role, including fractional positions. He uses the example of hiring a chief of staff to illustrate how organizations often request a role without clearly defining its purpose or responsibilities, sometimes merely copying another company's structure. Spector emphasizes that this lack of clarity leads to wasted time and money in recruiting and managing the hire. He urges employers to invest at least an hour in writing a precise job description that outlines the role, expected outputs, and a detailed roadmap for the first 30, 60, 90, and beyond 120 days. This disciplined approach, he argues, ensures that both the hiring team and the new employee have aligned expectations and maximizes the value of the hiring investment.

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So one of the crazy things that I find when people hire any role, whether it's a full-time role or a fractional role, is people don't take the time to actually write down what they want done. So in other words, like they don't actually write down the job description like very clearly. They sort of like, oh, I need help. Like I'll use the example, just chief of staff since we know this fairly well, but like I need a chief of staff. And I'll say, well, why? What do you need a chief of staff for? Well, I don't really know. There's just all these things I feel like I need help with.
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mean, come on. That's like the laziest job description I've ever heard in my life.
We saw some other company do it, so we think we need that too. Yeah.
Like, that's crazy. No, like actually spend an hour. Like you're literally gonna spend all this time recruiting, spending all this money probably on recruiters too. Then managing this person, all these things to get someone who's good.
Mm-hmm.
And you don't even really know what they're gonna do.
Yeah.
Spend an hour writing down exactly what the job role is, exactly what you want done. How you want it done, what the output's gonna look like, what the next 30, 60, 90, 120+ days is gonna look like.
Yep.
Write that down. That goes for any role.