Free job description generator

What a good job description does

A job description has one job: let the right person recognise themselves in it and let everyone else rule themselves out quickly. Candidates read it to answer three questions. What would I actually be doing all week? Could I do it? Is the arrangement one I can accept? An advert that answers those plainly gets fewer, better applications than one that sounds impressive and says little.

That is why this free job description generator asks for the work first and the requirements second. Most weak ads are written the other way round: a long list of qualifications, then a vague paragraph about the role. Start from the week the person will have, and the requirements tend to shrink to the ones that really matter.

How to write a job description with the generator

The form takes a couple of minutes. Rough notes are fine; the tool turns them into sentences, but it can only work with what you give it.

• Job title: use the title people actually search for on job boards, not an internal grade. "Front-end developer" will be found; "Engineer II, Web Platform" mostly will not.
• Company: optional. Leave it blank if you are drafting before you are ready to say who is hiring.
• What the person will do: the most important field. Write the real tasks, roughly in order of how much time they take. Four to six items is plenty.
• What the person needs: only what is genuinely required on day one. The tool will not add years of experience, degrees or technologies you did not list.
• Arrangement: full-time, part-time, contract, freelance or internship.
• Location: where the person works, including whether remote is limited to a country or time zone.

What you get back

A plain-text advert under 350 words with four headings, always in the same order: About the role, What you will do, What we are looking for, and Details. The two middle sections are bullet lists. It is written to paste into a job board, an applicant tracking system, a careers page or an email to a recruiter, and you can edit it in the box before you copy it.

The structure is fixed on purpose. Candidates scan job ads, and they scan faster when the parts are where they expect them. If your company has a standard template with extra sections, such as benefits or how to apply, paste the draft in and add them there.

Before and after: turning notes into bullets

The difference between a useful advert and a forgettable one is usually in the bullets. Here are the kinds of rewrites the tool aims for, using the sort of notes small teams type in.

• Before: "Responsible for front-end development." After: "Build and maintain the marketing site and the customer dashboard in React."
• Before: "Excellent communication skills." After: "Explain a technical trade-off to the designer and agree what ships this week."
• Before: "5+ years of experience required." After: only included if you typed it. If what you mean is "has shipped something and maintained it afterwards", say that instead, because it is the thing you will check in the interview.
• Before: "Fast-paced environment, wear many hats." After: a specific list of the three or four different kinds of work the role really involves.

Common mistakes that cost you applicants

Most of these come from copying an old advert or a large company template without asking whether each line still applies.

• Listing every tool the team has ever used. Name the two or three the person will use every day; the rest can be learned.
• Asking for a degree out of habit. If someone without one could do the job well, leave it out.
• Hiding the arrangement. Contract length, part-time hours and remote limits belong in the ad, not in the second interview.
• Writing about the company for three paragraphs before mentioning the role. One or two sentences of context is enough.
• Using in-house jargon or team names that mean nothing outside the building.
• Filler phrases such as "rockstar", "ninja" or "we are a family". The tool is told never to use them, so do not add them back in when you edit.

Freelance, contract and internship adverts

The same four headings work for every arrangement, but what goes in them changes. For a freelance or contract brief, the "What you will do" list should describe the deliverables and the "Details" section should carry the length of the engagement and how the work will be handed over. For an internship, keep the requirements short and focus on what the intern will learn and who will supervise them, because the people reading it have little experience to match against a list.

If you are hiring a freelancer through a marketplace, the generated text also works as the project description. Trim the headings if the platform has its own fields for them.

Job ads, job descriptions and job titles

People use "job description" and "job ad" for the same thing, and this tool writes the version you publish to attract candidates: the job ad. An internal job description for HR files, with grading, reporting lines and formal duties, is a different document, and this tool does not try to produce one.

It also does not suggest job titles. You type the title yourself, because the right one depends on your market and on what candidates search for. If you are unsure, look at what similar roles are called on the job boards where you plan to post, and use the most common version.

If you came here to describe a job you held on your own resume, this is the wrong tool: it writes adverts from an employer's point of view. The free resume builder on this site is built for that instead.