Job descriptions are essential part of recruitment. Once hiring manager creates a requisition and gets it approved, a recruiter will work with hiring manager to create a job description. A job description has dual purpose -
(1) it helps to attract jobseekers by pitching the unique attributes of the role for which recruiter is hiring, the reasons why a jobseeker will like to work in the advertised role, and
(2) it enables the recruiter to specify what kind of candidates she is looking for and also for jobseekers to know whether they are qualified for the requirement or not.
Job descriptions however may fail to deliver on the above two promise.
Recruiters may not have a job description to begin with, and they end up writing it with sketchy details on what a person is expected to do. Often the requirement evolves as the hiring manager and the recruiter meets jobseekers. Once the recruiting team knows what kind of skills are available and if no matching candidates for given set of requirements are found, hiring managers may modify their requirements.
Will recruiters update the job descriptions and re-advertise the positions with the new and updated job descriptions? Sometimes, yes and sometimes, no. If there are sufficient candidates available in the already received "applies", the recruiting team may decide to rely on the existing candidates and not re-advertise the updated requirements.
Now, if the job description is very well documented and the recruiter has already hired against the same position earlier, we can expect the job descriptions to represent the intent of the recruiter. That said, the AI algorithm is typically built on historic job descriptions and the response of the recruiters (in aggregate) to applies, hence, some of the "ambiguity" in the recruiter response is already embedded in the AI algorithm. This "ambiguity" may not always be helpful to the recruiter.
-Vivek Jain
Note- Even if job descriptions completely represent the intent of the recruiter, does the AI algorithm completely understand what is specified by the recruiter in the job description?
Please also see my blog post on (1) AI in Recruitment - Understanding Skills and Designations, and (2) Story of Naukri Job Alerts
(1) it helps to attract jobseekers by pitching the unique attributes of the role for which recruiter is hiring, the reasons why a jobseeker will like to work in the advertised role, and
(2) it enables the recruiter to specify what kind of candidates she is looking for and also for jobseekers to know whether they are qualified for the requirement or not.
Job descriptions however may fail to deliver on the above two promise.
Recruiters may not have a job description to begin with, and they end up writing it with sketchy details on what a person is expected to do. Often the requirement evolves as the hiring manager and the recruiter meets jobseekers. Once the recruiting team knows what kind of skills are available and if no matching candidates for given set of requirements are found, hiring managers may modify their requirements.
Will recruiters update the job descriptions and re-advertise the positions with the new and updated job descriptions? Sometimes, yes and sometimes, no. If there are sufficient candidates available in the already received "applies", the recruiting team may decide to rely on the existing candidates and not re-advertise the updated requirements.
Now, if the job description is very well documented and the recruiter has already hired against the same position earlier, we can expect the job descriptions to represent the intent of the recruiter. That said, the AI algorithm is typically built on historic job descriptions and the response of the recruiters (in aggregate) to applies, hence, some of the "ambiguity" in the recruiter response is already embedded in the AI algorithm. This "ambiguity" may not always be helpful to the recruiter.
-Vivek Jain
Note- Even if job descriptions completely represent the intent of the recruiter, does the AI algorithm completely understand what is specified by the recruiter in the job description?
Please also see my blog post on (1) AI in Recruitment - Understanding Skills and Designations, and (2) Story of Naukri Job Alerts
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