{"id":86,"date":"2026-09-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/why-your-job-spec-is-costing-you-applications\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:55:18","slug":"why-your-job-spec-is-costing-you-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/why-your-job-spec-is-costing-you-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your job spec is putting good people off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Too many must-haves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twelve essential requirements tell strong candidates the job hasn\u2019t been thought through. Choose the four that matter and move the rest to \u201cnice to have\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Put the salary in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To most candidates \u201ccompetitive\u201d means \u201cbelow market\u201d. A clear band screens out mismatches early and spares everyone a wasted second interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Write it for a human<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read your spec aloud. If it sounds like a legal document, start again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long wish lists and a \u201ccompetitive salary\u201d are quietly turning away the people you most want to hire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-employers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}