Hi, it's Jo here, returning your call about job descriptions.
As you'll know from your own job description, they describe the 'big picture'. They state the core requirements of your job: your duties or tasks, responsibilities, and other significant requirements.
Job descriptions need to keep pace with your job requirements and be flexible enough to enable you to respond rapidly to change and environmental pressures. They must also be clear and specific enough to ensure understanding.
Designing jobs and describing them in job descriptions can be influenced by the personalities involved, historical factors, personal objectives, and office politics. Well-designed jobs, however, incorporate variety so that the job-holder can perform a range of tasks, provide autonomy so that the individual has some say in scheduling work and deciding how to do it, are a total piece of work not a single, simple task, provide opportunities to learn and grow, and provide feedback on performance.
A job description's person specification states the skills, abilities, qualifications, and experience that a person needs to perform a job. It ensures that the person who will be doing the job has the right qualifications and attributes.
Hope this is helpful, cheers.
