Jan 1, 20083
My Job: A Description of Failure
I thought Lou Adler’s recent post Why You Must Eliminate Job Descriptions was interesting, didn’t you? You did read it, right?
I know I shouldn’t generalize but I can’t help myself in pointing out that readers of online recruiting stuff fall into one of three categories:
- The first are those who scan the content, hardly pay attention to it and leave feeling that they have just made an earnest attempt to improve their effectiveness as recruiters. In so doing, they believe they actually have;
- The second are those who read the content and decide as a result to act on it — invariably doing nothing;
- Third are those who mean to read their favorite gurus, get distracted and never come back, missing something that might help them become more successful — like understanding why we get distracted in the first place.
