By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady
For anyone needing job description help, our CEO announces something that’s not quite the Ultimate Answer to Life’s Questions … but it’s close.
Longtime readers of this column know I like to use it to communicate to all 130,000 of you out there. Most of the time, it’s my bold and innovative (some say wacky and irksome) ideas on HR. But today, I’ve got some real news you can use.
It has to do with what’s arguably the most hated job in HR: creating job descriptions.
Yes, they’re vital to your operation … the basis of your employment recruiting, your employment ads, and your performance appraisals once a candidate has filled the post. But, yes, they’re also time-consuming and troublesome.
You’ve got to find and tie down the line manager or supervisor to give you the details on the job. Then, once you’ve drafted the job description (JD), you send it up and down the line for review.
And, in this age of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws, you pass it by company legal counsel, too. No wonder people say of job descriptions, “Everybody needs them, nobody wants to do them.”
Take a no-cost, no-obligation tour of the prewritten job descriptions program of the future, priced as low as $49! It’s BLR’s new Job Descriptions Manager. Click here for info.
Well, we’ve known that for a long time, and that knowledge led to one of BLR’s most successful products, the Job Descriptions Encyclopedia (JDE). It’s two full-sized binders with hundreds of prewritten descriptions, and thousands of you have depended on it for decades.
JDE has been one of the best received programs we’ve ever done, but we are always trying to improve, and over the years, people have told us they wanted:
* More jobs covered
* Easier customization
* Links to salary data
* A way to file and update them
Well, we’ve done all that and more.
We’ve developed an online service called the Job Descriptions Manager. The beauty of it is that it takes no space, is as easy to use as clicking a mouse, and can be exactly what you want it to be … the source of one description or of thousands. Here are the specs:
–Over 2,400 separate, prewritten, legally reviewed descriptions for every conceivable commonly held position.
–Completely customizable. Call the description you want up on your screen. Click on Edit and make whatever changes you want, or none at all.
–Mailable and printable. Need a supervisor to go over what you’ve done? Just download and e-mail it. Of course, you can also just print it out.
–Savable and portable. Once you’ve created a description, you get a neat file all your own in which to save it. And because it’s online, you can access it from any computer, 24/7. Headed to another facility and need a JD there? You’ve got it.
Best of all, you can access Job Description Manager on the plan that fits your needs.
Take a no-cost tour of Job Descriptions Manager. It fits your needs … and your budget. Click here for info.
Need a Month? Get a Month. Need a Year? Save a Lot!
If you only need it for a month, order it for a month. It’s just $49. On a hiring spree? Take it for 6 months. And if your needs are more extensive, order access for a full year.
Of course, we’ve built some nifty discounts into this scheme, so you full-year folks save a whopping 33 percent! And, like everything we offer, your full satisfaction is assured with all 3 plans.
If you want to see for yourself why I’m so excited about this, we’ve set up an online tour. It’s just 52 seconds long, so no need to cancel your appointments today. Click here to view it. It’s really going to make your job easier.
Of course, that’ my e-pinion. But I bet it will be yours, too. Let me know. E-mail RBrady@blr.com.