Job Description Templates

Hiring good employees starts with creating good job advertisements. An effective job posting can increase the visibility of your company’s open positions, attract more quality candidates, and contribute to a solid employer brand and candidate experience. A poorly worded job ad, on the other hand, can have the opposite effect and make it more difficult to reach the top talent your company needs.

However, for busy recruiters and HR managers like you, it can be difficult to find the time to create optimized job ads from scratch. We’ve put together this collection of job description templates to save you time and give you a head start on creating high-quality job ads.

How to Use These Job Description Templates

While it may be tempting to copy and paste one of these job description templates, we don’t recommend this approach. Instead, we suggest working with your HR managers and recruiting team to tailor each template to your company’s needs. If you take the time to do this, your company will attract the right candidates and set the right expectations for all applicants.

How to Create a Great Job Ad

You should include each of these elements in your job posting (in roughly this order):

  • Job title and summary
  • Information about the organization
  • Tasks of the position
  • Requirements for the position
  • Benefits of working at the organization
  • Required legal language

Much of this content is repeatable across all of your company’s job postings, such as: B. Information about your company and legal notices. The job description, duties and requirements are your best opportunity to tailor your ad to your company’s goals and the ideal candidate.

To create a job description that appeals to the candidates you want to reach, read our guide to creating job postings. Inside you’ll find the “why” and “how” behind these basic best practices:

  • Use a clear job title
  • Outline the essential functions of the position
  • State what success looks like in this position
  • List the essential requirements
  • Be brief

Good luck out there!

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