Creating a competent vacancy is an art! And the result of this creative travail can both attract talented and suitable candidates, and scare them away. We put together a recipe for the most repulsive job offer. Title: Keep it as original as possible, or at least completely silent.
So your vacancy simply will not be able to find through the search. Still would! The job seeker is looking for a position as a sales manager, and you are looking for a “master of profits and a tamer of difficult customers.”
Well, if a candidate accidentally found your vacancy in the feed, he should in no case understand that the “talented employee” you are looking for and wrote in the title is exactly him, a digital sales consultant with extensive experience and excellent quarterly performance. Let it scroll further - you have a lot of competitors, and they also need good employees.
Salary: do not specify in any case!
It is vacancies with a gap in this column that most often remain without views, and even more so without responses. Let him lie quietly, do not attract attention. The phrases “salary in the market” or “wage rate - according to the results of the interview” will help to strengthen the repulsive effect.
Conditions: write about a friendly team. And about cookies.
You should not list really important working conditions, such as: workplace equipment, career development opportunities, schedule, medical insurance, gym, recreation area, kitchen, overtime compensation. Only formulaic phrases that go with everything and don’t say anything: a cozy office, nice colleagues, tea / coffee at the expense of the employer - this is the description that will allow the job seeker to scroll through your vacancy with peace of mind. And add about registration under the Labor Code and paid vacation. So what if this is not an advantage of your company, but a legislative norm. Here is the submission question!
Information about the employer and position: pffff! Discuss everything at the first interview, why waste time and write about it.
When reading the vacancy, the applicant should not fully understand where he may have to work and what exactly to do. This leaves him a chance to pass by without being interested in your company. Don't bother him! Let him find an offer with a detailed and transparent description and respond to it - one of your competitors will be lucky.
Requirements: overestimate as much as possible - write that you need both a Swiss, a reaper, and a player on the pipe.
The chances that there will be such a superhero, to be honest, are few. So it’s unlikely that it will come to the preparation of an offer, be calm. Well, if such a multitasking specialist suddenly appears, then at least you will save money: let him work for seven, but get for one.
Intonation and delivery: harder and louder!
Let the text of the vacancy be permeated with aggression and arrogance, emotional statements written by CAPSLOCK. Let the applicants see at this stage that no one is going to communicate with them on an equal footing. It will be aerobatics if the vacancy makes them think about the inadequacy of the employer - so they certainly will not respond.
If your task is not to close the selection in any case, use our bad advice and you will succeed.
We hope you appreciated our playful approach and once again convinced that in order for your vacancy to be responded to, everything must be done exactly the opposite of what we wrote in this article.
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