Question

What are job requirements and how would you describe them?

Answer 1

How to write job requirements?

Contrary to popular practice, writing great job requirements is more than just copy-pasting the “Job qualifications and skills” part of your job description templates.

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Job requirements should be carefully crafted to encompass all the most important attributes, skills and knowledge of your candidate persona.

Thus, to write efficient job requirements, you should combine your job description with your candidate persona and choose the most important, key job qualifications and skills desired in your perfect candidate.

In the following text, we will show you exactly how to write great job requirements.

We’ll start with the content, explain the best format for presenting job requirements, optimal length and introduce possible job requirements sections.

Content

The golden rule for writing the content of your job requirements is very simple - it’s KISS (Keep It Short and Simple).

Here are the 8 most important job requirements types:

Work experience - types and amounts (years) of work experience

Skills (soft skills and/or technical skills)

Specific knowledge

Education level and type

Professional licenses, accreditations and certifications

Personal qualities and attributes

Languages

Physical abilities.

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Pick those types that are relevant for a specific job position you are looking to fill.

Remember to be as specific as you can - avoid vague descriptions and stick with plain and simple wording.

Format

Avoid writing job requirements in a form of whole sentences to avoid overwhelming and scaring off potential candidates.

The best practice is to write job requirements in a form of short, bullet-point listing.

Length

Your job requirements should be shortest possible.

Avoid writing the entire wishlist of all your preferred skills and qualifications.

Stick to basics and list only the absolute must-haves for this specific position.

The best practice is to list no more than 7 bullet points.

If you absolutely need to list more than 7 bullet points, then you should divide your job requirements paragraph into 2 separate sections.

Sections

If you absolutely must list more than 7 bullet points, the best practice is to split your job requirements paragraph into 2 separate sections.

In first you should list the absolute “must haves” for this job position, and in the second you can list your “nice to haves”.

You “must haves” should entail essential qualification to be considered for the job.

However, if you also have the additional “nice to haves”, you will have an even better chance of getting it.

Make sure you use the appropriate language and tone depending on your company culture and Employer Brand.

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