ASK THE HEADHUNTER Does your job match its original job description?

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October 29, 2019, 06:09:36 AM
Does your job match its original job description?

In the October 29, 2019 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter an executive is concerned about the role of the job description in employee attrition. Question I'm president of a $20 million company, privately owned. Due to unusual turnover, I met with my head of HR and the affected managers. They said the "talent pool" isn't good any more. HR’s exit notes indicated poor performance and lack of skills as the reasons for termination. So why did you hire them, I asked. They were the best candidates, they said. Then I read the job descriptions they used. Lists as long as a


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Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
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deanwebb

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October 29, 2019, 03:24:39 PM
I've noticed that the travel % for my role has ticked up in job descriptions. :)
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

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October 30, 2019, 07:01:27 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on October 29, 2019, 03:24:39 PM
I've noticed that the travel % for my role has ticked up in job descriptions. :)

hope they won't hold you to that unless you like to travel.
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

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October 31, 2019, 12:20:49 PM
I do enjoy the travel, just not all at once. :)
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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