From the course: Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book
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Job descriptions
From the course: Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book
Job descriptions
- Here, I'll demonstrate the importance of job descriptions as an essential tool in a firm's management arsenal, and the level of detail and structure that is required to make them work efficiently, both during the recruitment process and performance reviews. I'm a big advocate of providing all your employees, including the principals, a detailed job description. For some reason, most creative teams use the job postings in lieu of job descriptions. But those brief posts don't outline in any depth the full expectations and responsibilities of the job, that's what a job description does. Here's a template of one that may inspire you. As you as you can see, I like to organize a job description as follows, include approximate percentage of time overall that each person will be in meetings. This is especially important as most people hate meetings or if you're a meeting-driven culture. You should also include percentage of time…
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