Job description templates

Job description templates to save you time

A free and growing library of downloadable job description templates to help you get started.

Streamline your hiring process with our downloadable job description templates

When you’re hiring across multiple roles, it’s handy to have rough, reusable templates on hand to cover the basics. Our sample job descriptions include key responsibilities, job duties and requirements to help ensure you cover the critical points for any role. Templates are free to download and fully editable to your needs.

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21st Jan
Job description for a Construction Manager

As the Construction Manager you must be responsible for creating and maintaining all site budgets and schedule all construction from start to finish. You must have a comprehensive understanding of the industry with a proven record of successfully managing other projects.

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21st Jan
Job description for a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

This role requires you to have a deep understanding of changing market dynamics, and overseeing the planning of the company’s marketing and advertising initiatives. By developing the corporate marketing strategy the role is best fit for a strong business acumen.

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21st Jan
Job description for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

As the CFO, you must be energetic, experienced and comfortable engaging with people. You will be responsible for all financial services and ensure the company follows all policies and regulations.

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Job description vs job ad

While often used interchangeably, a job description and a job ad are not the same thing.

Job description

A job description is an internal document designed to define the parameters of a specific job. Current employees, new hires going through onboarding, and potential job candidates use job descriptions to learn exactly what is expected of them within a job role. A good job description provides more depth about the job requirements and responsibilities of the position than a job ad typically does.

Job ad

A job ad or job post is an external piece of content designed to attract potential candidates to apply for a job. A job ad is typically more succinct than a job description, and should include the job title, and brief job summary, an overview of job responsibilities, company culture, perks, salary range, as well as the education level, work experience, and skillset of an ideal candidate.

Hear why your peers love JobAdder’s Job description templates

17th May
Phillip Lenzenhuber
NTP Forklifts Australia

With all the notes as well that I can take against the candidate’s profiles, this has been phenomenal. Nothing is as good as JobAdder. You can’t manage people properly unless you use JobAdder because it’s about the candidate experience. The templates and everything, it was just so awesome.

17th May
Patrick Mylonas
Burbank Group

I would say it has allowed us to streamline our recruitment process and posting an ad is so much easier. You just have to do it once and don’t have to go into four different programs, which is fantastic.

2nd Feb
Andrew Kim
PICA Group

I love how easy it is to use, everything just makes sense. With JobAdder, I can show new staff and team members the basics in half an hour, and they are quite competent using it right away. We’ve really sped up the process, it now takes one week to place.

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Answers to your Job description templates questions

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How does JobAdder’s applicant tracking software (ATS) work?
JobAdder’s ATS is an end-to-end recruitment system designed to help recruiters, agencies, hiring teams, and HR management alike attract and hire the best candidates possible. From the very start of the recruitment process right through to placement, our platform enables everything to happen centrally. From attracting job seekers to managing applications, interview scheduling, sharing shortlisted candidates, doing reference checks, social recruiting, communicating with candidates, clients, hiring managers and more.
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How is JobAdder different from other staffing and recruitment platforms?

JobAdder exists to make recruitment more efficient and joyful for everyone involved – not just the users of our platform. We’re here to improve the hiring experience for candidates, clients, internal stakeholders, human resources management and HR teams as well as recruiters, and that drives our continual innovation. Visit Why JobAdder to learn more.

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Which industries is JobAdder most suitable for?

From telecommunications to technology, mining to marketing, our recruitment software helps recruiters in every sector shine. Find out how we can best help your industry here.

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What type of business is JobAdder suitable for?

The JobAdder platform is designed to help make recruitment more efficient and joyful for all involved. The businesses it is most suited to are recruitment and staffing agencies and in-house HR and talent acquisition teams – the teams that manage the recruitment process.

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Can I request a new job board to be added?

Yes, we’re always looking to add more job boards. If you can’t find the one you’re looking for on our job boards page, please get in touch.

Job boards
Which job boards will I be able to post to through JobAdder?

You will have access to over 200 job boards globally, with more being added regularly. Click here to search job boards in your region.

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