Field Notes
Work is weird.
Let’s talk about it.
The job ad. The spreadsheet. The process everyone works around. There’s usually a story there.
Recruitment marketing · Sample
Your Job Posting Sounds Like Everyone Else’s. That’s the Problem.
If you could swap the logo and nobody would notice, candidates probably won’t either.
Read the note ↗Operations + process · Sample
Your New Process Isn’t Working Because Nobody Told Brenda.
The process is documented. The meeting happened. The person doing the work is still using the old spreadsheet.
Read the note ↗Candidate experience · Sample
Stop Calling a Job Flexible If Candidates Can’t See the Schedule.
Flexible means different things to different people. A schedule is a lot harder to misunderstand.
Read the note ↗These are sample editorial pieces created for the website launch design. Names, details and occasionally entire characters may be changed, combined or invented to protect the innocent, the guilty and sometimes my own sanity. The workplace problems are very real.
Something at work is harder
than it should be.
Let’s fix it. Start with the real version.