25 December 2009
A JD (Job Description, Requirement, SOW or Req.) is a Question: Can you find me a person with this experience, skills and personal characteristics, willing and ready to work for me at the price I am willing to pay, who intends to stay with me for a long time, full of energy, free FF (fatal flaws), a Team Player, ready to help me and be great to work with?
A Candidate is the Answer.
Questions and answers make up the dialogue, the partnership between Clients and Staffing agencies.
Like the famous GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) of computer parlance, a similar rule applies to the Client/SA dialogue. No submittal can survive a bad JD. The Question is as important as the Answer, and there is no good answer to a bad question…
A JD is the marching order for a Recruiter or even a full Team of them to jump and scout the internet, databases, social networks, groups, friends, relatives, neighbors, references, under rocks and behind closely guarded corporate doors, for the right fit. All that effort (sometimes hundreds of hours) are wasted if the JD was wrong, imprecise, incomplete or just a ‘try and error’ approach to bring in the right resource.
That is why our Recruiters LOVE good Clients that took the time to ask the right Question with a complete and thorough JD (and are prompt at reviewing the result of their work).