Job Description

Meaning of Job Description

Job Description  describes all the things and conditions which comes within a particular job. Like duties, responsibilities, tasks, job conditions and environment, machines and equipments used etc.

The main characteristics of Job descriptions are:

  • Job designation: Title of the job,  Job location, Reporting person and job grade etc.
  • Summary of the job
  • Duties and responsibilities
  • Relations to other jobs
  • Technology used in job
  • Working conditions

Note: some organization does not mix job specification with job description, job description tells about the job and job specification tells about the requisite qualification, skills and experience needed to do a job.

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