Your Job Descriptions Aren’t Reaching Job Seekers
Simply Hired Staff
Sit right back and let us at Simply Hired tell you a tale; a tale of horror. It goes something like this. You have a crop of hopeful applicants referred to you by a recruiting agency, pre-screened and ready, willing and able to fill your company’s open position. You have 5 or 6 different interviews scheduled with multiple levels within the chain of command. The interviews roll around and instead of the perfect candidate, you find out instead that none of the applicants have relevant, hands-on experience and are generally off the mark. Not only have you wasted the applicant’s time, you’ve devoted company resources to the interview process and maybe even shelled out for the recruiting referrals. What went wrong?
If the above sounds even remotely familiar, there’s a good chance that your job description is the villain. It may be that you haven’t accurately flushed out the everyday duties or responsibilities and have attracted candidates with the wrong focus. In addition, your description may not have included the relevant keywords for the particular industry or management level. In short, your position didn’t reach the perfect candidate because you made it difficult for them to find you in the first place.
How to Shift the Narrative
To make a long story, and analogy, short, hiring managers need to make it easier for search engines and ultimately job seekers to find their listings based on targeted, specific keywords relevant to the open position. Simply Hired VP of Client Service Leonard Palomino published a well-read article, addressing just that topic.
Using Simply Hired data, Leonard shows real-life examples of what job-seekers are searching and what listings are using as their targeted keywords as well as job title listings in posts. Curious to hear more? After reading the article, head back to our Simply Hired blog as we delve into the topic over the next several months on best practices for job search creation and execution to help connect your organization with the top-notch talent for mission-critical roles.
Article updated from the original on August 6, 2018
