For this part of the project, my role was and is to come up with ideas for our job description. So far I have created my own job description and so did my group mates. In class we read through our job descriptions and had a note taker take note of the best parts of each description on a shared Google Doc. We then put all of the notes together and formed our job description. I feel very good about our job description so far but specifically I feel like we have done a very good job with laying the duties out. I feel like this is the most important part of any job description because when applying for a job, you want to know exactly what you will be doing.
My role in the project is to help build a cohesive job description for our open position in our company. The use of my job title and the description of said job combined with Skyler’s is what I am doing to contribute to this group project, as well as, helping to extend Skyler’s current job description.
I feel like the best feature of our job description is our job description. I feel like it describes exactly what we are looking for in a person and what the position actually entails. Also, our bulleted points inside of our job description is also what I believe is setting us apart from the rest.
What separates you from the rest?
What are your best qualities?
Why us?
For this portion of the project, my role was to collaborate ideas from my own job description with the ideas from the job descriptions my group members created. We read each of our individual job descriptions aloud to each other and pulled the best pieces or ideas that were consistent throughout each of our job descriptions. Each member in our group put around the same amount of information in our collaborative job description. There are bits and pieces from all of our individual work combined into one group voice.
Although our collaborative job description is still in the drafting process, I think the best thing going for our group is that each portion of the job description is filled out with details specific to the job we are creating. For example, our major and minor duties and responsibilities are each 50-100 words in length so anyone applying for our job would know exactly what to expect if they were to get accepted. Furthermore, I think our job title is pretty impressive. “Ambassador of Student Recruiting” would look great to have on your resume when applying to any type of job. It sounds like your helping out the greater community but in a very classy way.
QUESTIONS FOR PEER REVIEW:
Is the job description clear and concise?
Do the key competencies reflect the skills and attributes needed for this role?
How can we align the major responsibilities and duties with the actual job title?
Throughout this first portion of the project, my main role was drafting my own complete job description (as seen in journal 18) and then taking what I said there and moving it into our group job description. This role made me do a deep dive into what I wrote and really evaluate with my team what could be used in the next group step of the project.
I think the best aspect of our group job description so far is just how we have already optimized some aspects and believe they could be in the final part of our project. The main example of this so far is the example of our name. We took some time on it in class to make it more accurately reflect the experience our job description required. What we did was change the title from “director” to “coordinator”.
Is there consistency or at least correlation between certain things stated in the qualifications and key competencies sections?
Why would somebody who reads this job title want to apply for it? Do the responsibilities outweigh the rewards of the job?
Are there any points in the job description where things contradict themselves?
My role in this portion of the project is pretty much the same as all of my other group members as of right now. Last class we all combined our mock job descriptions into one solid job description. The main things I contributed to our job description include coming up with a bunch of major and minor duties that the candidate will need to fulfill. Currently, I feel best about my group’s job description would be the general job description and the major and minor duties. I feel that these are the most important traits that the candidate will need in order to market our product successfully. One question I have for peer review is how to distinguish major duties from minor duties? Another question I came up with was how do I format the actual job description? My last question is what distinguishes qualifications from competencies? Overall, I think my group and I have been coming along great with this project.
The Job description I found to be more difficult than I had anticipated and certainly more time consuming. We all had really good ideas, making sure that none of our ideas overlapped during our writing while still covering all the absolute necessities of the job was easier said than done. I wrote the job description and the minor responsibilities section, I felt quite good about them looking back. I reread them several times in order to find the best wording while still being concise.
While writing this I feel most confident about our responsibilities section and the general job description. They are not only well written and concise but I feel they complement each other well, each section covers different information but it outlines the key characteristics of a good Director of Marketing. When making the job description I thought less about the job being for Fantastic Team Five and more about what is asked of Directors of Marketing in the real world.
Should the general job description make much reference to the product being sold or is it more important to focus on what is being asked of the interviewee?
By requiring applicants to have a 3.0 GPA are we going to be limiting our pool of interviewee to greatly?
How should I better format the job description to be more professional?
For this portion of the project, my group members and I all just explained what we had individually come up with for a job description, and one person tried to incorporate all of our ideas into one description. I did not write up the draft of the description with all of our input, but I did contribute my ideas and edited the description afterwards to include more formal language. I tried to change the tone a bit to be more professional, like a job description you might see on a site like HigherEdJobs.
I feel great about our job description! I think we all contributed very great ideas, and there hasn’t been anything we have disagreed upon adding yet. I think the parts I feel the best about right now are the major duties and qualifications sections. They both are pretty solid and I don’t think we will have to change much about them.
1. Will the combined major and minor duties be too much for one person, or is it just the right amount?
2. Would someone without a college degree, or more specifically experience being in a college environment, be able to sell this product catered to college students?
3. What could make the general description, or even the job title, stand out against other similar jobs?
I felt that my role for this past class and as someone in my group in general so far has been not only keeping myself on track and up to date, but to facilitate my group members in their next steps as well. I usually find myself revising and editing a lot and giving helpful feedback to my group mates as well as taking criticism for my own work as well. This past class I wrote my group an outline for what we would need to complete for next class and what our job description should include and look like.
I feel that the job description is very appealing and welcoming to anyone while still maintaining a professional manner about it. It’s to the point in language and covers everything we’d want in a hirable candidate while also explaining what the employee would be doing. I feel that my group mates also catered to the bullet points I wrote down and that it holds a polished air to it.
How can I go about taking in criticism from a different person’s perspective that doesn’t fit my own criteria of what my project may need to improve on?
How much weight will my peers’ feedback carry in the final evaluation?
Will this peer review help me understand how I can better my project alongside my groupmates rather than on my own?
My role in this project is bringing our groups resume to life. Skyler has given the midnight mafia a great start with her resume, giving a great description of the tasks the must be complete and the requirements for the job. What I will do to add on is extend and to make our resume different than everyone else’s.
I believe that our job description itself is the strongest part of our project. It gives you an understanding of the duties that must be handled and the type of candidate that we believe deserves the opportunity. Not only that but we believe that our key competences will separate our projects from the rest.
Why would you like to work for our company?
What separates you from the other candidates?
What about our resume caught your attention to make you want to apply?
My role in the job description was the introduction, along with the qualifications that we were looking for. I attempted to emulate an actual job description with how I worded things. I used inspiration from job descriptions that I found on “Indeed Jobs” from when I was looking for work. In our group discussion we decided to combine our job description as a hybrid of salesperson as well as product advisor. I also decided that we should include the offering of an internship if someone is still getting their education.
I like our job description, in faact I feel pretty good abot how it is going to go over in our peer review session today. I think that we use a peoper amout of business language and that will help us find the applicants that we are looking for. I found that we had a strong group dynamic that made it easy to adust things when needed.
questions: why do you want to work for goofy Dumplings ?
are we too lienant by giving internships to college students?
Will the strong group dynamic last for the duration of the project?
Me and my peers scaled out what topics were more comfortable for each other and what was easier writing. That’s how we found out whose role is what in the group. My role ended up being the “qualifications” guy. I’m the person who will set the qualifications for the applicants that want to work for us. I’m really confident about the director marketing side of our job description because in our generation the marketing major is really common. So,I feel like that can draw a lot of attention just from the beginning. Controlling money and monitoring sales is a huge responsibility so we’ll be recruiting the top of their respected class. The questions I have for my peers vary. My first question is “ How do you react when the sales aren’t going our way within the first month?” “If a customer is in an outrage in public disagreeing with something in the handbook how do you de escalate the issue?” Last but not least “How do you determine who will control the money?”
My role in this new group project was to help create the name of the job we are looking for. Another role I helped play was with helping to draft the major responsibilities and the minor responsibilities for the job position we are creating. The job created was ambassador of student recruiting.
I feel that our job description is being very well made into what will seem like an actual job description and sounding very professional. Our job description includes what the hire candidates need to be able to apply for the job. For example we are requiring at least 3 years of experience in a sales role position. We are requiring this so our new hire will be able to sell our handbook better.
What is the target age you are looking for as a new hire?
How are you going to get this job out to the public so you can get more applicants?
Will this job be an in house candidate or will you look to expand your applicants?
My role in this portion of creating the job description was rereading each of my team members answers, being a scribe and creating a combined and cohesive job. We worked together in class on Tuesday to talk through each portion of the job description and piece together different portions of our answer to create a final job description. I feel the best out our title, general job description and qualification. We spent a lot of time Tuesday trying to understand what the job would entail, and how it would work with the foundation we have created. We also worked well to understand jobs and see how we could make sure each of us contributed to this creation. I think that these three things are really descriptive and highlight the type of job that we are listing and are showing what we expect from someone who would be applying for this position. Some questions that I have for peer review are, how can we make this something that someone would want to apply for? What is working within the description, and what isn’t? And where is an area that needs improvement?
For this portion of the project, we all came together and really decided what we wanted our job description to look like. My job was to add to the original description touch up on it and make it look professional. We went over qualifications and experience and a description.
One thing I feel really good about for this project is our ability to work together. I think we all did a really good job last time and we really came together with our minds. I think we can continue to do a really good job on this project and get a really good grade.
What she we add?
Is one part too much?
What do you like about this project?
As a group, we deliberated as a team what parts would fit us best to work fast and strongest. As a group we are still deciding which parts we want to take on and work towards but overall we are prepared to work and our job description is solid for us to get a foot in the door. We are going over peer review in class and I believe this will be beneficial for us to determine our next steps for this project. Our group dynamic is flexible and determined so no matter what path we decide to go, we will create a job description that fits our desires best.
My initial job description was the one used as a baseline for the format. Much of the information in the group draft also came from my original description. As a group, we discussed which parts of each description would be best to include, as well as what overall changes needed to be made.
I felt best about the formatting of this job description. It’s very similar to actual job descriptions that can be found online; it is concise and in bullet points, with much of the information that a potential applicant would be looking for in an easy to locate setup.
Questions:
What information could be added?
Are there any points/elements that should be moved to a different section?
My role was to create my own draft of a job description to share with my group members and assimilate one job description we all agreed on. I was able to provide my own interpretation of what the job title, responsibilities, qualifications, and key competencies should be for a job where the candidate would be selling our handbook to UNE and other universities. I feel the best about our major and minor responsibilities. I feel the specifics we wrote like having a hybrid work schedule, social media engagement, and understanding the general mindset incoming first-year students have. Nowadays social media is key to any business venture; online presence is everything. I thought specifying our remote and in-person requirements was relevant and important. Multiple people in my family do remote work, it’s more of an option for jobs these days from what I’ve seen. How have other groups formatted their job descriptions? When is writing “professional”? How do you decide what parts you should include in a job description, like having a driver’s license or being authorized to work (what is necessary)?
17 thoughts on “JOURNAL # 20”
For this part of the project, my role was and is to come up with ideas for our job description. So far I have created my own job description and so did my group mates. In class we read through our job descriptions and had a note taker take note of the best parts of each description on a shared Google Doc. We then put all of the notes together and formed our job description. I feel very good about our job description so far but specifically I feel like we have done a very good job with laying the duties out. I feel like this is the most important part of any job description because when applying for a job, you want to know exactly what you will be doing.
My role in the project is to help build a cohesive job description for our open position in our company. The use of my job title and the description of said job combined with Skyler’s is what I am doing to contribute to this group project, as well as, helping to extend Skyler’s current job description.
I feel like the best feature of our job description is our job description. I feel like it describes exactly what we are looking for in a person and what the position actually entails. Also, our bulleted points inside of our job description is also what I believe is setting us apart from the rest.
What separates you from the rest?
What are your best qualities?
Why us?
For this portion of the project, my role was to collaborate ideas from my own job description with the ideas from the job descriptions my group members created. We read each of our individual job descriptions aloud to each other and pulled the best pieces or ideas that were consistent throughout each of our job descriptions. Each member in our group put around the same amount of information in our collaborative job description. There are bits and pieces from all of our individual work combined into one group voice.
Although our collaborative job description is still in the drafting process, I think the best thing going for our group is that each portion of the job description is filled out with details specific to the job we are creating. For example, our major and minor duties and responsibilities are each 50-100 words in length so anyone applying for our job would know exactly what to expect if they were to get accepted. Furthermore, I think our job title is pretty impressive. “Ambassador of Student Recruiting” would look great to have on your resume when applying to any type of job. It sounds like your helping out the greater community but in a very classy way.
QUESTIONS FOR PEER REVIEW:
Is the job description clear and concise?
Do the key competencies reflect the skills and attributes needed for this role?
How can we align the major responsibilities and duties with the actual job title?
Journal 20:
Throughout this first portion of the project, my main role was drafting my own complete job description (as seen in journal 18) and then taking what I said there and moving it into our group job description. This role made me do a deep dive into what I wrote and really evaluate with my team what could be used in the next group step of the project.
I think the best aspect of our group job description so far is just how we have already optimized some aspects and believe they could be in the final part of our project. The main example of this so far is the example of our name. We took some time on it in class to make it more accurately reflect the experience our job description required. What we did was change the title from “director” to “coordinator”.
Is there consistency or at least correlation between certain things stated in the qualifications and key competencies sections?
Why would somebody who reads this job title want to apply for it? Do the responsibilities outweigh the rewards of the job?
Are there any points in the job description where things contradict themselves?
Ryan Kelly
Prof. Jessie Miller
Communications 110
16 November 2023
Journal 20
My role in this portion of the project is pretty much the same as all of my other group members as of right now. Last class we all combined our mock job descriptions into one solid job description. The main things I contributed to our job description include coming up with a bunch of major and minor duties that the candidate will need to fulfill. Currently, I feel best about my group’s job description would be the general job description and the major and minor duties. I feel that these are the most important traits that the candidate will need in order to market our product successfully. One question I have for peer review is how to distinguish major duties from minor duties? Another question I came up with was how do I format the actual job description? My last question is what distinguishes qualifications from competencies? Overall, I think my group and I have been coming along great with this project.
Sawyer Ohman
CMM110
11/16/23
Journal #20
The Job description I found to be more difficult than I had anticipated and certainly more time consuming. We all had really good ideas, making sure that none of our ideas overlapped during our writing while still covering all the absolute necessities of the job was easier said than done. I wrote the job description and the minor responsibilities section, I felt quite good about them looking back. I reread them several times in order to find the best wording while still being concise.
While writing this I feel most confident about our responsibilities section and the general job description. They are not only well written and concise but I feel they complement each other well, each section covers different information but it outlines the key characteristics of a good Director of Marketing. When making the job description I thought less about the job being for Fantastic Team Five and more about what is asked of Directors of Marketing in the real world.
Should the general job description make much reference to the product being sold or is it more important to focus on what is being asked of the interviewee?
By requiring applicants to have a 3.0 GPA are we going to be limiting our pool of interviewee to greatly?
How should I better format the job description to be more professional?
For this portion of the project, my group members and I all just explained what we had individually come up with for a job description, and one person tried to incorporate all of our ideas into one description. I did not write up the draft of the description with all of our input, but I did contribute my ideas and edited the description afterwards to include more formal language. I tried to change the tone a bit to be more professional, like a job description you might see on a site like HigherEdJobs.
I feel great about our job description! I think we all contributed very great ideas, and there hasn’t been anything we have disagreed upon adding yet. I think the parts I feel the best about right now are the major duties and qualifications sections. They both are pretty solid and I don’t think we will have to change much about them.
1. Will the combined major and minor duties be too much for one person, or is it just the right amount?
2. Would someone without a college degree, or more specifically experience being in a college environment, be able to sell this product catered to college students?
3. What could make the general description, or even the job title, stand out against other similar jobs?
I felt that my role for this past class and as someone in my group in general so far has been not only keeping myself on track and up to date, but to facilitate my group members in their next steps as well. I usually find myself revising and editing a lot and giving helpful feedback to my group mates as well as taking criticism for my own work as well. This past class I wrote my group an outline for what we would need to complete for next class and what our job description should include and look like.
I feel that the job description is very appealing and welcoming to anyone while still maintaining a professional manner about it. It’s to the point in language and covers everything we’d want in a hirable candidate while also explaining what the employee would be doing. I feel that my group mates also catered to the bullet points I wrote down and that it holds a polished air to it.
How can I go about taking in criticism from a different person’s perspective that doesn’t fit my own criteria of what my project may need to improve on?
How much weight will my peers’ feedback carry in the final evaluation?
Will this peer review help me understand how I can better my project alongside my groupmates rather than on my own?
My role in this project is bringing our groups resume to life. Skyler has given the midnight mafia a great start with her resume, giving a great description of the tasks the must be complete and the requirements for the job. What I will do to add on is extend and to make our resume different than everyone else’s.
I believe that our job description itself is the strongest part of our project. It gives you an understanding of the duties that must be handled and the type of candidate that we believe deserves the opportunity. Not only that but we believe that our key competences will separate our projects from the rest.
Why would you like to work for our company?
What separates you from the other candidates?
What about our resume caught your attention to make you want to apply?
My role in the job description was the introduction, along with the qualifications that we were looking for. I attempted to emulate an actual job description with how I worded things. I used inspiration from job descriptions that I found on “Indeed Jobs” from when I was looking for work. In our group discussion we decided to combine our job description as a hybrid of salesperson as well as product advisor. I also decided that we should include the offering of an internship if someone is still getting their education.
I like our job description, in faact I feel pretty good abot how it is going to go over in our peer review session today. I think that we use a peoper amout of business language and that will help us find the applicants that we are looking for. I found that we had a strong group dynamic that made it easy to adust things when needed.
questions: why do you want to work for goofy Dumplings ?
are we too lienant by giving internships to college students?
Will the strong group dynamic last for the duration of the project?
Me and my peers scaled out what topics were more comfortable for each other and what was easier writing. That’s how we found out whose role is what in the group. My role ended up being the “qualifications” guy. I’m the person who will set the qualifications for the applicants that want to work for us. I’m really confident about the director marketing side of our job description because in our generation the marketing major is really common. So,I feel like that can draw a lot of attention just from the beginning. Controlling money and monitoring sales is a huge responsibility so we’ll be recruiting the top of their respected class. The questions I have for my peers vary. My first question is “ How do you react when the sales aren’t going our way within the first month?” “If a customer is in an outrage in public disagreeing with something in the handbook how do you de escalate the issue?” Last but not least “How do you determine who will control the money?”
My role in this new group project was to help create the name of the job we are looking for. Another role I helped play was with helping to draft the major responsibilities and the minor responsibilities for the job position we are creating. The job created was ambassador of student recruiting.
I feel that our job description is being very well made into what will seem like an actual job description and sounding very professional. Our job description includes what the hire candidates need to be able to apply for the job. For example we are requiring at least 3 years of experience in a sales role position. We are requiring this so our new hire will be able to sell our handbook better.
What is the target age you are looking for as a new hire?
How are you going to get this job out to the public so you can get more applicants?
Will this job be an in house candidate or will you look to expand your applicants?
My role in this portion of creating the job description was rereading each of my team members answers, being a scribe and creating a combined and cohesive job. We worked together in class on Tuesday to talk through each portion of the job description and piece together different portions of our answer to create a final job description. I feel the best out our title, general job description and qualification. We spent a lot of time Tuesday trying to understand what the job would entail, and how it would work with the foundation we have created. We also worked well to understand jobs and see how we could make sure each of us contributed to this creation. I think that these three things are really descriptive and highlight the type of job that we are listing and are showing what we expect from someone who would be applying for this position. Some questions that I have for peer review are, how can we make this something that someone would want to apply for? What is working within the description, and what isn’t? And where is an area that needs improvement?
For this portion of the project, we all came together and really decided what we wanted our job description to look like. My job was to add to the original description touch up on it and make it look professional. We went over qualifications and experience and a description.
One thing I feel really good about for this project is our ability to work together. I think we all did a really good job last time and we really came together with our minds. I think we can continue to do a really good job on this project and get a really good grade.
What she we add?
Is one part too much?
What do you like about this project?
As a group, we deliberated as a team what parts would fit us best to work fast and strongest. As a group we are still deciding which parts we want to take on and work towards but overall we are prepared to work and our job description is solid for us to get a foot in the door. We are going over peer review in class and I believe this will be beneficial for us to determine our next steps for this project. Our group dynamic is flexible and determined so no matter what path we decide to go, we will create a job description that fits our desires best.
My initial job description was the one used as a baseline for the format. Much of the information in the group draft also came from my original description. As a group, we discussed which parts of each description would be best to include, as well as what overall changes needed to be made.
I felt best about the formatting of this job description. It’s very similar to actual job descriptions that can be found online; it is concise and in bullet points, with much of the information that a potential applicant would be looking for in an easy to locate setup.
Questions:
What information could be added?
Are there any points/elements that should be moved to a different section?
Is there any way the title could be improved?
My role was to create my own draft of a job description to share with my group members and assimilate one job description we all agreed on. I was able to provide my own interpretation of what the job title, responsibilities, qualifications, and key competencies should be for a job where the candidate would be selling our handbook to UNE and other universities. I feel the best about our major and minor responsibilities. I feel the specifics we wrote like having a hybrid work schedule, social media engagement, and understanding the general mindset incoming first-year students have. Nowadays social media is key to any business venture; online presence is everything. I thought specifying our remote and in-person requirements was relevant and important. Multiple people in my family do remote work, it’s more of an option for jobs these days from what I’ve seen. How have other groups formatted their job descriptions? When is writing “professional”? How do you decide what parts you should include in a job description, like having a driver’s license or being authorized to work (what is necessary)?