JD for Millennials Could Mean Jack Daniels…clarify upfront.. Lol

In today’s Gen-Z world, every abbreviation keeps changing. SOS went from ‘save our souls’, to ‘someone over the shoulder’. JD went from the millennial’s Jack Daniels to the most important JD today – Job Description! Sure, a job description doesn’t give you a kick, but it sure gives better clarity about your future.

Being one of the most essential HR tools to ensure a smooth recruitment process, a proper job description is like vintage whiskey, it never goes out of style. Before the usual pre-screening, interview scheduling, and other recruitment processes begin, the employee must know exactly what’s in his cup. A job description must fulfill the following criteria:

1. It must at any cost, explain the exact roles and responsibilities that come with a job. With a detailed list of duties, there should be no room for any ambiguity. The job description must be ‘under the influence’ of reality and only reality.
2. It should give proper information about factors such as the qualification, skills, and expertise required for the job. Just like how a bottle of whiskey would talk about who can drink it legally.
3. It must give context for the interview, by being a base from which the real or phone interview questions are developed. This is similar to how the box of a vintage whiskey bottle always gives a base for what to expect inside.
4. It has to talk about the organization’s value, what it stands for, the code of conduct, and other essential factors that every staff must know and adhere to. This way, all the vital information is on tap.

It is now clear that before you get to the interview management aspects, a proper job description goes a long way. With a proper job description, an interview always feels like a happy hour. Here are some benefits of a job description:

• The work-life duties of an employee are almost always aligned with the organization’s vision. The job description ensures this to a large extent, and never leaves the employee on the rocks.
• It saves time to plan the interview management, as all the information from educational qualification, to experience, is put out there. This helps the recruitment process find the most suitable candidate
• It communicates the expectations from an employee, hence checking performance management, ROI, and so on, is made simpler.
• It proves beneficial to have a proper job description, as existing employees can upgrade their skills if you incentivize it. An employee won’t wake up with a terrible hangover from not being updated.
• By using it to bridge a gap in areas of training and development, a clear-cut job description can be used to measure progress.
• A proper job description can help the company in averting partiality or discrimination. This is possible because a JD can help an organization defend its position and decision.

With a proper job description in place, the glass is always half full. And it’s always a bottoms-up for recruitment success. With Callify.ai, we follow an automated process for a smooth recruitment process, much like vintage whiskey. Cheers to a very neat AI-based recruitment!