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What Your Job Ad Says About You

Recruitment expert Stevie Buckley walks you through some of the mistakes he regularly sees in your job advert and helps you write better job adverts that actually work.

In the candidates head: Well I have spent the past four years doing X at an enormous scale and could probably add an incredible amount of value to this team but they clearly want someone way more experienced than me so let’s move on to the next ad. You Are Not Writing a Novel A report by TheLadders suggests it takes people 49.7 seconds to determine if a job is a good fit. If you are transparent and specific about the type of work a person will be expected to do, the people who will apply for the role are those that feel they are capable of doing that job well, regardless of how much or how little experience they really have.

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