Question

Draft a recruitment ad to advertise a job opening at your company or that of a friend or family member. Have a friend critique it as well as—if possible—a knowledgeable HR professional from a local company. Summarize their suggestions for improvement and incorporate them into a final draft.

Answer 1

Recruitment advertisement is an announcement or notice to the job seekers about the job opportunity that is available at that particular company. This advertisement includes, the job role, experience, skills required, preferred qualification, description of roles and responsibilities, salary range, location etc.

For Instance:

Consider that company is looking for Business analyst position. The recruitment advertisement can be as follows:

Role: Senior Business analyst

Qualification: Engineering in computer science and MBA is added advantage.

Experience required: 5 - 7 years, with at least 4 years of relevant experience

Job Location: "ZZZZZ"

Skills required:

Must have: experience in Excel, SQL, Tableau.

Good to have: exposure in programming of SAS, R and python.

Salary: $5000 - $7000

Description of Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage large and complex data sets.
• Automate data pipeline on platforms like tableau
• Prepare timely reports for management meetings. etc.

About company profile: Provide information about number of years company is established, their products, number of employees and its location.

Interview process: If it is a walk in - provide date and time along with venue details in the advertisement. If it is a schedule interviews, mention the email address in the advertisement and inform candidates to send resumes to that, where shortlisted candidates will be received call for scheduled interview.

(Note: company can also mention the expected joining date of the candidate)