Better Hires with Performance Based Job Descriptions

A Performance Based Job Description helps make the best candidates stick out. It is far superior to a traditional skills based job descriptions because it defines the attributes for superior performance in terms of desired results, the key processes needed to achieve these results, and an understanding of the environment in which they take place.

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The Performance Based Job Description is the first part of a process to help you identify and hire superior talent at any level. You start by getting all of the key decision makers to agree on the standards for superior performance for the job in question. You can determine these attributes by benchmarking the best employees (for admin, transactional, process or new hires), by using the Macro approach (for management and project type hires), or by using the Micro approach (for technical and all other type hires).

The recommended method for discovering these performance objectives is to explore the role of the position with respect to eight different work areas. Try to find one or more performance objectives in each of the following area of the job:
1. Major objectives
2. Secondary objectives
3. Organizational issues
4. Technical issues
5. People skills
6. Deliverables
7. Problem solving
8. Making changes/ Improvements

Once you create the performance objectives you set about to rank the most important ones and these become the basis of your Performance Based Job Description.

The process of building a Performance Based Job Description will help all of the team members fully understand the value of the position and provide the same markers by with each candidate is judged. Having all decision makers in agreement on what they are looking for and a template based on these performance objective will help in reaching a hiring consensus and making better hiring decisions.

Some added values of the Performance Based Job Description is that the candidate will also understand what you are looking for and be more able to appreciate your opportunity more accurately. Full knowledge of the opportunity and performance objectives by both the company and the candidate will result in a better match. Also the Performance Based Job Description becomes a great performance appraisal tool.

PeopleStaff will help you create a Performance Based Job Description free of charge. We will act as your agent to gather appropriate info from your hiring team members and create a finished Performance Based Job Description. The Performance Based Job Description is only part of the services that we provide but a very important part. Also key is our ability to provide a wide range of sourcing options and to monitor and adjust our methods to insure the delivery of talent to meet your performance objectives.