Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. A job description is a written overview, pieced together like ...

White-collar workers in the US are on the move after pandemic hiring freezes. Experts have one advice for new job seekers: Read the job ad and description properly. They highlighted 5 ways to read job ...

Let's talk about jobs. Not in the old-school, "What do you do for work?" way, but what a job really is. For decades, a job was described through a title and a list of responsibilities. You get hired, ...

Christiana Jolaoso-Oloyede writes for media publications, B2B brands and nonprofits. Using her research, analytical and writing skills from her training as a lawyer, she focuses on garnering accurate ...

Your employees' success depends on how well they understand their job responsibilities and the specific tasks their jobs entail. A job description provides this information. A well-crafted job ...

Writing a job description for positions in your small business is an important human resources duty. A job description clarifies the duties, expectations and reporting requirements of an employee's ...

Job descriptions are a crucial part of recruitment and hiring, and of performing an Equal Pay Act Analysis, classifying employees for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and developing ...

Job descriptions are the last thing most of us think about because with all the day-to-day busy work, who has time? We know we need to hire talented people, but most of us go with the standard, dry ...

I see a lot of companies emphatically advertising their commitment to diversity in their job descriptions. They leverage words like “belonging” and “inclusion” and “justice.” Because they want to make ...

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) does not require that employers create written job descriptions for positions within their companies; however, well-written job descriptions ...

Ramsey argued that they can easily encourage a mentality of dodging responsibility, where employees ignore tasks outside their listed duties. “Job descriptions set people up to say, ‘Well, that’s not ...