5 Essential Sections Every Job Description Must Clearly Articulate For Maximum Impact

Most job descriptions are a boring overview of what the day-in-the-life of an employee may look like.

They’re often written by what might as well be an attorney, with gobbledygook and snooze-inducing verbiage.

The goal of a job description is to help a future employee (or current one) know precisely what’s expected of them, not to create some exhaustive list of what they “might do” on some random day in the future.

These are the crucial sections of any job description so your team is clear on what they must do to succeed in the role you hired them for.

Section 1: The Position Mission

The position mission is a paragraph explaining the mission for a specific role and why it’s so important.

It’s not a place to recite the essential functions in sentence form. Instead, it’s a place to get an employee excited about their role and clearly explain why their areas of responsibility significantly impact customers, the team, and the company.

For example, “The most important function of the X is to develop a new generation of Account Executives that become successful Dedicated Account Managers who exceed $xxx,xxx in quarterly Gross Profit…