How to Read a Job Posting

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Hey there! Welcome to Work in Progress, a how-to series that's
meant to help you with everything from prepping for a job interview, to boosting
your confidence, or negotiating a raise. Here's today's question:

There are four main sections of any job posting. You have the company description, the role
description, the role responsibilities, and the preferred minimum qualifications.
Okay, let's start with the company description. There are a few things you
want to look out for such as: the company values, who is the CEO or the founder and
any of their information, and the evolution or history of the company. Why
did they start this company? What do they do? These are all things that should
resonate with you, plus things that you should know about or be able to speak to
confidently when they ask questions about that. The next is the role
description. You want to think about what are the set expectations for the
role? You can also look for the keywords that you will want to
incorporate on your resume or your cover letter. These keywords are usually
scattered throughout the role description, and they might be mentioned
multiple times. Next is role responsibilities, or what
you'll actually do in this job. So you want to tailor your cover letter and
your resume here. And you really want to think about, okay what are they asking
for in this role that I've done that's similar or what do I have that I can at
least compare the dots? You know, so, if they're looking for someone that has
great communication skills, maybe you respond to emails in no less than 24
hours. And next, we want to think about do I actually want to do these things? What
the role is looking for, and the responsibilities of the role, is this
something that you could do day in and day out?
And last, you want to think about the minimum and preferred qualifications. The
general rule of thumb is that you want to possess about 80% of the skills. But
don't over stress about that. You should have maybe a majority of the skills or
at least be confident in your ability to gain them. So if they're looking for a
skill with, you know, JobVite—which is a tool that recruiters use—and while
you've never used that skill, maybe you can learn about JobVite or watch some
tutorials and be confident that you can at least gain that skill if you got the
job. Add the essential skill
into your resume and in your cover letter wherever they come naturally. We
also have a free resource on how to read a job posting, and it goes super in to
detail, includes a template, and a bunch of other insight for you that can really
help you—and you can actually print off that worksheet and look at the job
description and compare the things side-by-side and I think that will be
really helpful. It's gonna be below this video for you to use in the future.
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How to Read a Job Posting

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