What information should be included in a well-written job description?
Expert Answer
There are the following terms should be defined in the Job Description of an employee:-
- Job title: – It will define the general category of the Job. This will help to find the candidate job responsibilities on the bases of level of experience and knowledge about work flow.
- Employee code: – This information should be given below the name of employee, which will define the specific/unique number of an employee.
- Designation: – Designation should be mention below employee code; It will be related with the job title of an employee.
- Qualification: – Qualification should be mentioned in the employee JD’s. On the basis of qualification and experience the JD of an employee can be upgraded time to time.
- Role and responsibilities: – Here comes the main part of the JD which will define the main role and responsibilities of an employee. Role and responsibilities assigned by senior officer as per employee qualification and experience. These things will be performed by employee as per their routine activity. No one will remind them to perform that task which is mentioned in JD. On more line should be added in the JD that Head of senior officer can assign any duty as per requirement and experience of an employee.
- Designee in absence: – This part of JD will define the continuous flow of work in absence of an employee. Employee appointed in absence should be equally qualified and trained to perform the activities of fellow employee.
- Safety Training: – Every employee should be responsible to perform the activities as per safety guidelines. Employee should be aware about these guidelines and self responsible for updating of safety trainings