Job Description Services

We’ll review and update your Job Descriptions, or create them from scratch

Precise Job Descriptions are critical to controlling costs and aligning roles with business priorities. Salary.com Consulting delivers standardized job descriptions that reduce redundancies, clarify expectations, and optimize workforce planning.

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Why Job Descriptions Matter

Job descriptions are far more than administrative paperwork—they are essential tools for aligning your workforce to your business strategy. Clear, accurate, and consistent job descriptions serve as the foundation for smarter hiring, effective performance management, cost control, and legal compliance.

At Salary.com, we help you transform your job descriptions into strategic assets that support organizational clarity, drive engagement, and future-proof your workforce.

A strong job description framework helps you:

Manage Costs

Define roles clearly to eliminate redundancies, avoid role inflation, and better justify compensation decisions.

Maintain Clarity Under Pressure

Set transparent expectations to sustain productivity during periods of change, such as reorganizations, mergers, or market downturns.

Strengthen Compliance

Mitigate legal risks by developing standardized, defensible job descriptions that align with labor laws and FLSA requirements.

Recruit and Hire with Precision

Craft accurate, detailed job descriptions that attract the right candidates—and ensure you make the right hire the first time, avoiding costly misfires.

Enhance Internal Mobility

Support career pathing and succession planning with clear descriptions that map out growth opportunities across your organization.

Our Process: Streamlined, Tailored, and Strategic

Our process is tailored to your individual needs and circumstances, but a typical engagement is structured around these core steps:

Step 1: Discovery & Assessment

Comprehensive inventory of your existing job descriptions, organizational charts, competency frameworks, and HR documentation.
Identify outdated content, inconsistencies, and gaps across your job documentation.
Evaluate alignment with business objectives, industry standards, and compliance requirements to define the scope of work and establish a clear starting point.

Step 2: Stakeholder Engagement & Role Validation

Interviews, focus groups, or surveys with managers, employees, and HR representatives.
Gather detailed insights about each role’s current responsibilities, required skills, and expectations. Validate job scope and identify shifts in responsibilities due to organizational or industry changes.
Review job leveling frameworks to ensure consistency in role design and expectations across the organization.

Step 3: Framework Design & Standardization

Create a standardized job description template tailored to your organization’s culture, industry, and HR systems.
Each template includes job title and summary, core duties and accountabilities, essential qualifications, and reporting relationships—plus technical, behavioral, and leadership competencies.
Ensure every description is user-friendly, scalable, and aligned with internal systems and talent strategies.

Step 4: Content Development & Review

Draft clear, concise, and competency-based job descriptions that reflect each role’s purpose, responsibilities, decision-making authority, and organizational impact.
Drafts are shared with key stakeholders—such as managers, HR teams, and subject matter experts—for collaborative feedback.
Refine and finalize each description to ensure alignment with department needs, business goals, and employee expectations.

Step 5: Integration & Delivery

Final job descriptions are reviewed for alignment with compensation structures, internal equity, and external market benchmarks.
Verify compliance with labor laws, ensuring inclusion of essential functions, exempt/non-exempt classifications, and physical requirements where applicable.
Deliverables include a complete, standardized library of job descriptions and templates to support future maintenance, workforce planning, and talent management.

Why Choose Salary.com’s Consultants

Diversified and Experienced Team

Our individual consultants have decades of experience in a variety of industries. We have the knowledge and skills to help you in your specific organization, industry, and circumstances.

High-Touch Communication

Clear communication is a cornerstone of our process, and we will be with you every step of the way. Our team of consultants are available to provide guidance and support.

Salary.com’s Powerful Solutions

We leverage Salary.com’s industry-leading total compensation management platform, making full use of its trusted data and award-winning compensation solutions.

An Extra Set of Hands

Serious analysis is a big undertaking that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. This is a mistake, and everyone knows it, but sometimes your internal team just can’t get the time. Our consultants provide the extra resources and expertise to implement your compensation initiatives.

Third-Party Neutrality

Bringing in outside help demonstrates your commitment to fairness, transparency, and impartiality. It also guarantees a level of discretion not always possible within an organization.

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