Better Business, Better Life – Issue 118

The best JD should be no more than 2 pages & contains these key things:

• Your company core values & core focus / niche (from your V/TO)
• Your Target Market clients that you work with (from your V/TO)
• The accountabilities of the role – no more than 5-6 bullet points (from the Accountability chart)
• The processes they’ll need to love (from your Core Processes)
• The measurables that they will be measured on (from the Scorecard)
• Something about how you embrace EOS & what that means for them. (NOTE: This can just be copied from Sara’s article & add your own flavour to it – then just rinse & repeat for all future JDs)

The first article below by my colleague Sara B Stern is my favourite on how to put the job description together. Read the full article here.

As Sara says, “No word salad, no lost weekends agonizing over meaningless details. Regain hours (or weeks!) of productivity working on the most important tasks to move your business forward.”

And take a look at this advert for a possibly considered ‘boring’ SEO job to see how they use their values (without spelling them out) in their job advert to repel the wrong people & attract the right people. Check it here.

Thanks to my friend, Richard Conway, who shared this with me years ago!

I took a similar approach when I was employing an assistant earlier last year. Check here.

You’ll either read it & say, “Hell yeah, I want to work there,” or “Not for me”… Remember, it is either a Hell Yeah or a Hell No – there is no in-between in life, so either way is good!

My desperate plea to you (using a Gino Wickman-ism) is not to actually use the exact core values in the job description. You’ll find that people will prepare canned answers to tell you how much they love the core values & how well they fit & they’re likely all BS.

I think it’s better to allude to the Culture & then ask them some tough questions in the interview to see if they genuinely live & breath the core values.

I’ll cover off more on this next time, as it’s another of the things I get passionate about!

Getting the Right People in the Right Seats starts at job advert, interview & job description time, so go out there & start attracting the Right People 💖

PS: If you’ve got this far, I’d love you to reply to me & tell me how you feel about me adding back in some of my own stories each fortnight. I took it out on the advice of someone but I’ve had a few emails saying that you missed it, so I’m trialling adding it back in. I am happy to go with whatever works for you but I don’t know if you don’t tell me… Plus I like talking to my newsletter readers!

I do a lot of travel with my work & I don’t always have the luxury of travelling business class.

It’s my own choice – my business rules that I set for myself say that unless I’m travelling more than 5 hours, then I won’t pay for business class – economy has to do it!

This means that getting some relaxation can be difficult in those tiny, non-reclining seats.

And even if you do get upgraded, it’s still nice to have a decent neck cushion for long flights.

On my most recent trip to Cebu, I bought one of these Cabeau neck pillows.

I love that it folds up into its own carry case, which then clips to your baggage.

And I can report that it is super comfy.

I slept for over 8 hours on the way home by combining this with my Bose noise-cancelling headphones. I got these at a bargain price on one of my other trips & love them.

So, it is not the cheapest neck pillow, but it is definitely a good investment & no, I don’t get any kickbacks for my Find of the Week! Check here.