Bait for talent

yitch
3 min readSep 24, 2020

For a short work life of 7 years I think I have at least combed through 10,000+ job listings. I notice jobs follow a ridiculously mundane template:

  1. Something about the company (optional. This is like the youtube advert you must wait through)
  2. Job description (this is as relevant as my degree and how I’ve used it for my job)
  3. Requirements (long list of skills or qualifications. Essentially have you spent enough time to training yourself on someone else’s dime to be relevant for the company you want to join)
  4. What’s in it for you (optional. Ending in video youtube sponsorship. As relevant as something about the company)
  5. And then there are small nuggets of meta data that are snuck in like seniority, type of employment, industry and job functions

The following are some suggestions I have:

Instead of a job description, start with a conversation

Jobs are starting to feel super transactional. I exchange time and skills, you give me money. (Kinda feels like the world’s second oldest profession but with a white collar for kink)

It won’t cost a dime to help people feel like people. Start with a conversation (the following is a suggestion):

Rejection sucks! You are a talented individual. That is why we want to help you get this job. Now grab a cup of your preferred choice of stimulant and let’s proceed. We want to ensure we accept…

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