- Obscure job descriptions delay 17% of employees from roles within the final 18 months, analysis suggests.
- The survey, performed by expertise platform Eightfold AI, polled 913 staff and 259 HR leaders.
- A “obscure or complicated” description was the staff’ second commonest purpose for not making use of.
Practically a fifth of staff had been lately delay making use of to jobs due to “obscure or complicated” job descriptions, a survey has recommended.
The survey, performed by expertise intelligence platform, Eightfold AI, discovered that 74% of staff thought-about making use of for a job prior to now 12 to 18 months.
However out of the 913 full- and part-time American employees surveyed, 17% reported not making use of for a job in the identical timeframe as a result of “the job description was obscure or complicated.”
It was the second commonest purpose cited for not making use of for a job, after feeling “my previous expertise didn’t immediately relate to the job description,” which 18% of these surveyed cited.
Some 13% stated they had been delay by the position requiring attending an workplace or bodily location.
Requested to rank the significance of various issues an employer may supply, 70% of respondents rated a “clearly outlined job utility and interview course of” as “very” or “extraordinarily essential.”
The analysis additionally surveyed 259 senior HR leaders, solely 46% of whom felt that their corporations supplied “a transparent job utility and interview course of” for all roles.
Carol Cochran, VP of individuals and tradition for FlexJobs, beforehand advised Insider that job advertisements had been the primary indicators of the office tradition, including: “The hassle that an organization is placing into setting that surroundings, setting that stage for candidates proper off the bat goes to let you know one thing.”
Insider’s Stephen Jones reported earlier this yr that one insurance coverage firm, Phoenix Group changed phrases like “energetic”, “enthusiastic” and “revolutionary” with extra particular phrases to enchantment to older employees.
A spokesperson for the corporate stated these phrases may really feel like they had been geared toward a youthful technology and deter others from making use of.
