Best And Next Practices In Job Description Design And Management

Join us as Don Berman, an industry thought-leader in the area of Job Descriptions, shares state-of-the-art best practices to consider when creating and maintaining effective Job Descriptions. He will also discuss how other companies have used these practices, not only to afford themselves the protection that comprehensive and accurate Job Descriptions provide, but how they used their Job Descriptions to drive their most important HR initiatives.

You will learn:​
  • Why managing Job Descriptions is the single most critical issue in strategic HR
  • General guidelines for writing a strong Job Description
  • Legal dos and don’ts
  • How companies handle these Job Description basic elements and why: Job Summary/Purpose, Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities, Job Attributes, Physical Demands, and Qualifications
  • How handling Competencies, Skills, and Essential Functions properly can help you acquire, evaluate and retain top talent
  • How Scope factors can help you understand the real impact a job has on your organization and aid you with everything from FLSA to Salary Leveling
  • Using questionnaires and other factors to protect yourself from FLSA exposure
  • How identifying and collaborating with stakeholders is the key to effective Job Description Management
  • The positive implications of reusing common elements to create consistent Job Descriptions (Parent-Child Inheritance)
  • How to organize Job Descriptions into logical hierarchies that provide the foundation for career paths and banding
  • How to effectively identify duplicate Job Descriptions and consolidate them
  • How NEW complementary tools from HRTMS can help your recruiters build their job postings from a library of almost 500,000 active job postings