Job description templates by role, with responsibilities, skills and qualifications you can edit and reuse for your own hiring.
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What a chief executive officer does: six responsibilities, how the CEO relates to the board and the chair, the legal duties a UK director carries, the qualities boards look for, and a job specification template.
Read the articleWhat an office coordinator does: the three-rung ladder from administrative assistant to office manager, eight duties, the facilities and DSE work that lands on the role, what it is not, how to level it, and a job description template.
Read the articleA firefighter job description with the seven duties of a firefighter, the skills and entry requirements in England, the apprenticeship standard, the selection process, a template and CV wording.
Read the articleA director of marketing position description, from O*NET and the National Careers Service: the three versions of the job, seven duties from strategy and the plan to the team, the brand, the pipeline and the executive table, the difference from a marketing manager, a brand director and a chief marketing officer, skills and qualifications, a template and objectives beyond leads.
Read the articleWhat a barback does behind the bar: stocking, cleaning and supporting the bartender through service. Duties from O*NET, skills, hours, the route to bartender and a job description template to adapt.
Read the articleWhat a network engineer does, from Prospects and O*NET: six responsibilities from design to on-call, the skills and certifications employers ask for, how the role differs from an administrator, an architect and a security engineer, and a job profile template.
Read the articleWhat a programme or program coordinator does: how a programme differs from a project, the two versions of the role, nine duties from scheduling to benefits reporting, who the coordinator works with, skills, routes in and a job description template.
Read the articleWhat a CHRO is and what the role covers: how it differs from HR director and chief people officer, what changes at board level, the statutory duties it owns, and whether a CHRO certificate exists.
Read the articleWhat a customer service representative or associate does: six duties, the channels and settings, what changes in a call centre, the skills employers ask for, a job specification template and CV wording.
Read the articleWhat a loan officer does, from the BLS and O*NET: six duties from the first meeting to the loan file, the five kinds of loan officer, the skills, training and licensing, the balanced targets the role should be judged on, and a job description template.
Read the articleAn employer's guide to the sales associate role: the three versions of the job, accountabilities written as outcomes, the shift and contract realities that define it, how commission interacts with holiday pay, and how to measure it fairly.
Read the articleWhat an assistant general manager does: the four parts of the job, why AGM is not the same rung as assistant manager, duty management and licensing, the awkward parts nobody writes down, pay sources, and a template.
Read the articleWhat a job board is, how it differs from an aggregator, an applicant tracking system, a careers site and an agency, the types of board including the government service, what a posting needs and what to measure.
Read the articleWhat a shift manager does: the open, the run, the handover and the close, eight duties, the decisions taken when nobody senior is on site, the fatigue and rota duties, routes in and a job description template.
Read the articleA plumber job description: the job responsibilities of a plumber as the National Careers Service describes them, six duties, the skills, the Gas Safe and CSCS requirements, the apprenticeship route in England and a job description template to adapt.
Read the articleWhat employment qualifications are, from the Cambridge definition, the GOV.UK qualification levels and Acas: the four kinds, academic, vocational, professional and licences; the ladder from entry level to level 8; which jobs and qualifications go together; the difference between required, preferred and equivalent; how to write qualifications required in an advert and how candidates should read them.
Read the articleWhat a busser or busboy does in a restaurant: six duties from setting tables to closing down, how the role differs from a server and a runner, the skills employers want and a template.
Read the articleWhat manufacturing experience means in job adverts and CVs, the six kinds of experience it can cover, what counts and what does not, how candidates should describe it and how employers should specify it.
Read the articleAn underwriter job description built around the decision the role makes: nine duties, underwriting authority and referrals, the classes of business, the regulated layer, how underwriters are measured and a template.
Read the articleWhat a warehouse picker does across a shift, how paper lists, scanners, voice and pick to light change the work, how pick rates are measured and why rate targets go wrong, the HSE safety duties that belong in the document, and a job description template you can copy.
Read the articleA dentist job description with seven duties, the settings from general practice to hospital dentistry, the skills employers look for, UK degree and GDC registration requirements, a template and advert mistakes.
Read the articleWhat a casting interview involves, what casting directors ask and listen for, how self-tapes changed it, and the production side: consistent questions, reasonable adjustments, recording consent, and when a role may genuinely require a protected characteristic.
Read the articleWhat a brand ambassador does: the definition, three kinds of ambassador, six duties, skills, the UK advertising disclosure rules, employment status, a job description template and CV wording.
Read the articleWhat a business consultant does, from O*NET, Prospects and the National Careers Service: the six stages of an engagement from brief to measured results, business versus management consultant and the specialisms, the certifications for management consultants including the Certified and Chartered Management Consultant credentials, how to hire a consultant and what to ask, a job description template and how to measure the work.
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