Results indicated that individuals who crafted their job by increasing their job resources (e.g., support, autonomy) and challenging job demands (e.g., participate in new projects), and by decreasing their hindering job demands (e.g., less emotional job demands) reported higher levels of person job fit the next week.
If Facebook can revitalize Pages and shift some of the attention (and traffic) from the newsfeed to them, then the company has the potential to neutralize companies like Yelp and FourSquare that have largely done a better job at crafting business landing pages for users to visit and quickly grab relevant info.
These findings suggest that by crafting their job demands and job resources, individuals can proactively optimize their person job fit and as a consequence experience their work as meaningful.
If you want female applicants, craft job descriptions that are gender neutral.
It's a craft job, interpreting the novel for oneself and then finding a film language for it".
Quick fix: Craft job descriptions with as much detail as possible -- never mind the length or the fact that it may contain lots of information.
Yet the extant research on job crafting, job assembly, and idiosyncratic jobs remains insufficient to explain how an organization that must construct and fill new open-ended roles can do so systematically.
"Gore, Bush and Bradley each have crafted credible jobs of cultivating support in the high tech and biotech industries," says Jeff Modisett, vice president and general counsel of TechNet, a bipartisan high tech political action group in Palo Alto, Calif.
By this, I don't mean that you have to invest years of blood, sweat and tears into crafting a job posting -- rather, work to grab job seekers' attention by being open, honest and forthcoming about what your business stands for.
They've developed an activity, the Job Crafting Exercise, in which you can map the key building blocks of your job, and then formulate a more ideal — but still realistic — plan for crafting your job to align more closely with your interests, skills and values.
This can give you the opportunity to review the job content of others and pick up on their strengths and weaknesses when crafting a job description or title of your own.
