Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions

Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by makeitdouble on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:21AM (#28640211)

I interpret parent's point in a context where your company has a page where it describes its values, how it sees its impact etc.

Companies with strong values usually have them publicly exposed somewhere, for instance for Cookpad: https://www.cookpadteam.com/careers

If you already have a page about how cool you are, it doesn't need to be repeated in every posting, and candidates for who it matters the most will have more information than shortened descriptions to avoid walls of texts in the job posting itself.

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Re:Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions by cutemonster on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:38AM (#28652315)

I don't see much interesting or unusual on that Cookpad page.

"You face up to reality, knowing that you can change it" -- things like that can be said about almost any job. And the rest of the things on the page too I think.

What would the opposite to facing up to reality be?

"Here, we don't accept reality. And if something is bad, it has to stay so."

They write:

"There’s a big difference between saying that you’re making good in the world and actually doing it. "

They're a recipe sharing site.

(Nevertheless, seems like maybe a nice place to work at)

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