How To Write A Job Posting People Actually Want To Apply To

Chances are your job descriptions are fossils from back when people faxed in their applications. Let’s fix that. Most job descriptions suck. And the reason they suck is, in a sense, archaeological: Job postings tend to be compliance-driven retreads from the last time that position was filled, and the time before that, and the time before that. As a result, many of them are text-dense fossils of the same language an employer used to advertise an opening back when candidates still faxed in the...