The process improvement job descriptions are a fantastic resource for any business and are the first place I turn to when I’m looking for what I needs to do to improve my business. We have a lot of the same information on this site, but the job descriptions do a much better job of explaining what you need to do to bring your company to life.
They have a number of sections. The most important one is the “What do you want your company to be?” section, which is where I turn to when Im looking for the steps I need to take to “make my business” in my head. There are also a few “What do you want to see in your company” sections, but these tend to just be a bit more generic.
In my experience, they aren’t the best way to go about this. They describe the company, not what you want to do with it. For example, you can describe a company as being a “SEO agency” but in reality you are just a bunch of SEOs. Or a company as being a “marketing agency”, but in reality you are just a bunch of marketers.
The best way to describe yourself in an agency job description that I’ve seen is to say that you are ‘an agency that does X, Y, and Z’. That’s exactly what the description says, but it doesn’t include the X, Y, and Z. Your job description should include the ‘X’, ‘Y’, and ‘Z’ part that describes your role in your company.
The truth is, that being the best description of your job could actually come in the exact opposite of what you are being hired to do. That is, you are hired to do X, Y, and Z. But X, Y, and Z are not really what you are doing in your agency job description. You are actually what they are not. You are just doing X, Y, and Z. So what did you do instead? You are just doing X, Y, and Z.
The best description of a job is the one that explains what you did wrong, not what you did right. If you are truly getting hired to do X, Y, and Z, that’s really the best description of you. You are the X, Y, and Z.
It sounds like we are in a time warp. It is that old saying, “time is relative.” But what does that really mean? Time is relative to you, the client, or your boss. When you are given a job description, you are not necessarily going to write it in such a way that it says this is what you will be doing. What you are going to write, is the job description that you will be doing.
This is not to say that you should write your job description in a way that says this is what you will be doing. That is impossible. But if you are getting hired to do X, Y, and Z, it is going to come across as if you are already very familiar with the job. This makes it more likely that your boss will give you a new job. This is especially true if you are not very familiar with your current job.
Many of the jobs we are looking for are in related fields that don’t exist in our current job. If you already have a job, you will know what you already do and you can skip the job description. If you don’t know what you do, and you are starting a new job, you should write a job description so that you are familiar with the job. This will also make you less likely to get fired from a new job in the future.
The goal of a job description is to help people understand what they are doing and why they are doing it. If you are an engineer, you should write a job description that explains what you are good at, why you are good at it, and what makes it successful. You don’t want to give an engineer a recipe for how to make their shoes, yet you also want an engineer to understand that the shoes are important and that they need to do a better job.