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Outline Challenging Job Aspects ('Bad' Content)

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What happens here

After the initial wordy job description, explicitly list all the potentially negative or challenging aspects of the job. For a landscaping business, this might include long summer days, hot weather, dealing with bugs, or the requirement for hard manual labor and a 'man up' attitude. This acts as a further filter, discouraging applicants who are not prepared for the realities of the work.

Goal: Clearly state the difficult parts of the job to deter unsuitable candidates.

Tools and materials

  • Computer Any — Typing and editing the job advertisement
  • Word Processor Software Microsoft Word — Creating and formatting the text of the advertisement
  • Drafted Job Description N/A — The base document to which the 'bad' content is added

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description what the job is. And then you start out with all the bad things about the job. Like if you're in landscaping, long summer days, it sometimes can be hot. You're going to get bugs. You're going to get bitten up. There might be snakes. gonna have to uh man up and uh work hard, get rich slow like your dad did. Um that sort of thing. So, you start out with the negative things and then you go into the positive things. You go into all the

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