Streamlining The Process of Creating and Managing Job Descriptions Within Your Organization

Well written and up-to-date job descriptions may be the most important employment-related documents an employer should develop and maintain. All too often they are overlooked. The lack of company-wide job descriptions disregards a key best practice… having out-of-date descriptions is considerably worse. If an employee is terminated because he or she failed to meet the requirements and responsibilities of their position yet the job description for their position does not include these factors how will the employer defend their decision to terminate? They cannot.

An effective job description details the primary and essential functions of the job, how the tasks will be carried out, the mental and physical skills needed to perform the job and the environmental conditions in which the work will be performed.

Job Descriptions Made Simple is an online service provided by HRSentry which incorporates the U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net database, the nation's primary source of occupational information. As a subscriber to Job Descriptions Made Simple, you can create job descriptions for your organization either from a blank template, or by selecting from the hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors provided by O*Net. Once your job description has been created, it is neatly filed away in your own personal electronic file cabinet, where it can be edited at a later date, or used as a starting point for a new job description. All job descriptions reside on the HRSentry server, which is backed up on a daily basis, providing you with the peace of mind that all your job descriptions will always be available and safe.