Job vacancies

The format and quality of job vacancy postings online can be as varied as the industries and quality of the companies that post them. A well-written job vacancy is the often when the company makes its first impression with potential applicants. As HR professionals, we should always pay careful attention to the information we include in our vacancies that we post for applicants to see. As potential applicants for positions ourselves (I mean HR professionals have to job hunt too), we also must learn to carefully analyze the postings of other companies. This can not only help us when job hunting ourselves, but can also help us to recognize aspects of job vacancies postings we may want to either adapt or avoid when we writing them as part of our duties and responsibilities for our organizations.

For this discussion forum:

1. Find an HR-related job vacancy posting that is interesting to you and share the link in your post.

2. Share with us why you found this vacancy interesting.

3. Point out one aspect of the vacancy that you felt the organization wrote or formatted well AND also point out one aspect of the vacancy that the organization could have written or formatted better.

Make sure you cover the points from all three items above in your original post. There are no word minimums for this discussion, however the quality of your discussion post will factor in to grading. It doesn’t have to be anything over the top or special, just looking for your true thoughts on the topic just as if we were in a face-to-face classroom discussing the same topic. Take your time, share your own thoughts. If you cite or quote other material, ensure that you include an APA in-text citation and reference for the cited material.

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