Is your job post all about you and what you want?
By Mitch Sullivan,
Are you repeatedly reminding the reader that they're looking at a job posting by using phrases like "...in this role.."?
Are you writing meaningless stuff like "driving organisational success through strategic initiatives"? A sentence by the way, that basically means "help us be more successful".
Are you giving the people you're trying to attract, long detailed explanations of what they've probably been doing every day for the past several years? It's called 'Jobsplaining'.
Are you using words like "the incumbent" or "the successful candidate"?
Is the 'Candidate Requirements' section of your job post about 12 bullet points long, half of which are soft skills that everyone's going to think they have anyway?
Is your job post all about you and what you want? Add up all the times you use "we", "us", "our" or the company name to find out.