Interesting summary of feedback by Eric Lippert, who was asking about factors that make a job description attractive (or not) to potential employees.
Factors that make a job posting attractive are:
- Required skills
- relevant, focused, sensible
- emphasis on ability to learn
- Format and style
- well-written, self-aware, humble, enthusiastic
- Personality and culture
- good work-life balance
- corporate culture and values clearly expressed
- evidence of programming methodologies, such as “Agile Programming”
- opportunity to work with famous industry leaders or on famous products
- The job itself
- described in detail: specific team, specific product, specific job
- telecommuting possible
- work is beneficial to industry and society
- work has large scope -- “change the world”
- work is challenging
- product is innovative
- tools/languages to be used are described and are current and familiar
- good pay
- autonomy to choose own tools, architectures, methodologies
- details of the team stated – team size, for example
- more than just typing in code – opportunities for UI design, DB design, troubleshooting user problems, and so on
via blogs.msdn.com
I highly recommend following the link and reading the whole article if you in any way participate in hiring, and/or drafting job requirements.
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