Rethinking today’s job descriptions — are they even still relevant?
Analyzing the consequences of inadequate job descriptions
“The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things.” — Karl Marx.
I’ll be candid — I, along with many of my peers, have long abandoned the notion of finding a job that truly matches our skills online. Platforms like LinkedIn have become a quagmire of aspirational but unrealistic job descriptions. Just recently, my friend Nik shared one with me that was so detached from reality, it was almost comical. Many of us from the older Millennial and Gen-X cohorts can’t help but notice how job descriptions have devolved. Gone are the days when a job listing accurately reflected the duties it entailed. Today, much of what we see is filled with empty jargon, and the titles often seem to overshadow actual qualifications. This observation has spurred me to explore the…
