{"id":22,"date":"2020-04-15T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/?p=22"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:27:40","slug":"job-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/2020\/04\/15\/job-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Think of the last job you had. How much did the job description influence your decision to apply for the position? How closely did your experience on the job match the job description? In what ways was it similar and in what ways was it different?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The job description for my last place of employment wasn&#8217;t listed out anywhere before applying. I heard about the position from an employee who was currently working there at the time. She explained the job description and duties of a barista in that shop to me, that is the position they were looking to fill, and said that they didn&#8217;t have any applications but if I was interested in working there that I could bring a resume and that they would give it to the owner. During the interview is when I was formally told the job description by the employer and when I was offered the position, I decided to take it because the job description sounded like it was a close match to what I was looking for in a job at the time. The only experience I had coming into the position was customer service, I didn&#8217;t have any actual experience as a barista or ever working with coffee. The only job where the level of customer service was similar was a sandwich shop I had worked at eight years prior. The owner of the shop said that they actually don\u2019t look for people with coffee experience, that they have hired both people with a background in coffee and those without, and sometimes it\u2019s better if the person doesn\u2019t have coffee experience. Some coffee shops use syrups and some use powders, this was something I didn\u2019t know before working in coffee; and so some people that she had hired in the past with coffee experience had a hard time adjusting and getting used to their recipes versus the people who came in with no prior coffee knowledge.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the last job you had. How much did the job description influence your decision to apply for the position? How closely did your experience on the job match the job description? In what ways was it similar and in what ways was it different?\u00a0 The job description for my last place of employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}