Airtight Writing: Protect Your Workplace and Your Employees with Better Job Descriptions

Virginia Tech Roanoke Center

A well-written job description is important long after you take down the employment ad. Job descriptions provide employees, managers, and HR professionals with a realistic picture of job duties  and performance guidelines. This session will demonstrate the importance of writing clear and accurate job descriptions, especially when a request for accommodation is made.

Learning objectives:

After this session, participants will be able to:

1. Write job descriptions that accurately reflect and document a job’s essential duties.
2. Describe how essential duties and job requirements relate to the ADA’s interactive process.
3. Use job descriptions to create performance guidelines.