How to write the perfect job offer

If you are looking for the perfect employee to cover a new available position, the best thin you can do to make sure you start things right is to create the perfect job offer that would stand out and call the attention of the best professionals.

Don’t go crazy on it just yet, find previous examples

First, start with the easy option: look for a previous ad that has worked before for your team or your company and check how it was structured and how the job and the skills requested were described.

If you can’t find any perfect example that you can replicate, then just take the basics from it and from there.

Describe exactly what you need and be realistic

Once you have the essentials down, make sure to clearly describe the role you have available in your team.

If you are not 100% sure of everything that the role involves, ask someone with a similar position as well as the rest of the team that will be working with the new employee, and find out about the requirements and tasks that come with the role. Remember too not to get carried away by all the things you wish that new employee would do for your company, as you are looking to find an actual real person.

Think of a title that will make a difference amongst any other job offers

Once you have the job description clear, you need a catchy title for your ad. Of course, it needs to make sense and remain in line with the position you are offering, but also you want it to stand out, especially if it is a commonly required position. If nothing comes up, do some research and see what other people looking for similar profiles wrote for the title of the job offer.

Make your company culture visible

Through your employment offer, let people see the vibe of your team and your company culture. It is only obvious that if you work for a financial corporation or a law firm, the general environment is more formal and rule-oriented, while usually a company on the creative field, tends to have a more relaxed and flexible dynamic.

Nevertheless, the company culture can be very different regardless of the company’s field. Remember as well to add the company values, work environment and available growing opportunities. You want to attract not only the best professionals, but also the people that agrees with your way of understanding work.

Choose wisely where to post your job offer

With your job offer completed, you just have to choose the best places to post it. Since today there are countless online job search platforms, it is important to choose the one that is going to bring you the best candidates, so if you don’t feel like your profile fits the mainstream job search pages, then stay on your lane of where you think you can find the best professionals for you.

Also, as we said before, learn from previous experience, and check where other job offers from your company was posted on and how positive or negatives the results were.

Another option to keep in mind when it comes to posting your job offer, is social media. If you decide to take this option too, ask the rest of your team members to post it on their own personal pages, as well as professional sites like LinkedIn, which also adds a strong value to your job offer, as they speak about their own experience while working on that same company. Furthermore, later on, if a candidate comes through another member of the team, you will have extra information on who that person really is.

As much as all of the above mentioned might sound like a huge time and effort investment for a thing as common and simple as a job offer, we can guarantee you that it is all very much worth it.

Bringing in the right person to your company can sometimes make or break the future and success of the whole team, so anything that you can do to find the perfect candidate is time and effort that you are spending on your project.