Bobby MoestaInnovator, Entrepreneur, Professor and Advisor

Job Description? #humanresources #newcareer #hiring #jobdescription

1 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker lambasts the way many companies write job descriptions, noting that they often rely on generic, copy‑pasted text generated by tools like ChatGPT. He likens this approach to the outdated product‑development mindset of the 1980s, where a long list of tasks was simply assigned to a person without regard for fit. The speaker argues that jobs should be shaped around individuals’ strengths, passions, and energy sources rather than forcing people into rigid, mismatched roles. He also points out that most candidates lack self‑awareness about their own strengths and weaknesses, and that employers focus on collecting a high volume of resumes by asking the wrong, overly generic questions, missing out on better‑qualified candidates.

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For those who write job descriptions, how are they written? Seriously, how are they written? ChatGPT, copy and paste. And here's the best part. It's the way we used to develop product in the '80s. We just built a list of everything we wanted that person to do, do all those things and go build it. That didn't work. It doesn't work for people either. Right? Because look, we have strengths, we have weaknesses, we have, we have things we love to do. We have things that suck the energy out of us and we try to actually How do we fit a person into a square peg into a round hole? As opposed to how do we morph the job to fit the person? And so part of it is most people don't know what they're good at, they don't know what they suck at. At the same time, everybody's trying to build something that has a standard, but the fact is we just try to get more resumes as opposed to better resumes, better people, because we're asking all the wrong questions.