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Thoughts on our job posting...Atypical Engineer for Startup Wanted

2 pointsby ryetoasthumorover 11 years ago

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lmartelover 11 years ago
Not bad. A few suggestions:<p>1. Explain in the posting why you need someone &quot;atypical.&quot; Is that just an attention-grabber? If so, remove it and figure out a way to actually differentiate.<p>2. This sentence is off:<p>&gt; Working for a startup is sure to be exciting and fast-paced, but if you&#x27;re up for the challenge the reward is immense.<p>because it&#x27;s structured like:<p>&gt; Working here is [positive], but also [positive]<p>which makes no sense. Either change it to e.g. &quot;challenging and fast-paced&quot; (not outright negative but not straight positive like &quot;exciting&quot;) or just change the &quot;but&quot; to an &quot;and.&quot; I prefer the latter.<p>3. Get rid of the &quot;Intelligence&quot; bullet point, that&#x27;s silly. Recruiting is marketing--you&#x27;re marketing your company instead of your product but it&#x27;s still marketing. So the same rules apply: to differentiate your product (company), you can&#x27;t say anything that your competitors would disagree with. If you can&#x27;t imagine a Careers post saying &quot;We hire dumbasses&quot; don&#x27;t say you need &quot;intelligence&quot;