Help Wanted Help

Someone told me once that you should write for the one single reader. Make it understandable, clear, direct and to the point for only one person. If that person can read it, then others can too.

Blogging is a new thing, almost a new science. Here is what I am thinking of doing with this new blog—HELPWANTEDHELP: It seems to me that few of us know how to create a job ad that really communicates to the jobseeker today. It seems so easy that we all should know exactly how to make one.

If this is true, then why do most help wanted ads sound more like job descriptions than interest generating advertisements for your company. Most are bad, boring…and at worse, truly uninformative and not very helpful for the potential candidate.

My intention is to shed some light on this topic. And, I hope that at least one reader (!!!) from time to time will add to the discussion and information exchange.

We will have lots of actual ads as examples, some bad some good some great.

I am planning on having some fun with this…and I hope you do as well.

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