Job description Quotes

“Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.”

“If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.”

“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”

“...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.”

“We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.”

“Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.”

“Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.”

“The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.”

“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”