Why Do Job Descriptions Still Suck? – By Tanner Garrity (Inside Hook) / Dec 15, 2022
Firms wanted rockstars and ninjas. They’re getting quiet quitters instead.
The year is 2015.
You have been hired by a direct-to-consumer startup without any vowels in its name. The job description promised unlimited PTO, a stocked kitchen and quarterly ping pong tournaments. It all sounded too good to be true, but then again, the company was explicitly looking for “rockstars,” “gurus” or “ninjas,” so the standards around here must be high. Little wonder the perks follow in kind.
However long you remain at the company — two months, two years, you’re still there — you eventually realize that this firm does not employ Mick Jagger. There are no gurus or ninjas on the payroll, either, and that’s probably a good thing, right? Rockstars are overconfident and rarely punctual, gurus shouldn’t have to settle for entry-level wages, and ninjas…are trained to throw death stars, not write JavaScript.
Writers who cover workplace trends spent most of their 2010s begging companies to stop using buzzy terms like rockstar, guru or ninja in their job descriptions. Here’s a post decrying the practice in 2012. Here’s one in 2015. And another in 2017. And another in 2018.
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