Job descriptions help applicants that are looking into a job understand what they will be getting into if they are hired on and gives them the expectations that the company will have for them are well. When applicants look at a job description, most of the time they will determine if they want to apply for that job or not from the description of the job itself. Job descriptions also will let the applicant now if they are qualified or not for the job that are looking at. Job descriptions can be intimidating or just simply confusing especially when you are looking for a job that is new to you and the vocabulary that is used in the description can also throw someone off and turn them away from the job itself.
An incident when the job description felt intimidating was when I found a job listing for the local tire shop, searching for a summer job. I had some knowledge of what I would be doing if I got hired at the shop however, the terminology of the job description had me thinking that I was too stupid and that anything I thought I would be doing wasn’t true. However, after going to the shop and asking a little more about the job itself, I was assured that the tasks I would be doing were almost exactly what I was thinking and that they used that terminology because their headquarters have certain guidelines to what they have to say. My advice to anyone who isn’t sure about a job description because they don’t know exactly what it means, or the terminology steers you in a different direction would be to ask questions. Go to the company in person or contact them and ask for clarification. They want to find a good candidate and good employee just as much as you want a job that you will succeed at.