Hire Right

Manage Job Descriptions

A job description summarizes the essential duties, responsibilities, competencies and skills required to perform a specific role.

Matching the right person to the right role is critical to the success of any organization and it starts with the right job description.

Our job description management solution, JobArchitect^TM, simplifies the process of creating and maintaining job descriptions so you can market price jobs accurately and hire with confidence.

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Make it Simple

Create Job Descriptions

Creating job descriptions can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be.

Job Architect by Salary.com offers a comprehensive platform to create and manage job descriptions:

Build and standardize job descriptions using your existing content, format, and branding.
Use one of the job description templates from our extensive library or
Access CompAnalyst^® job summaries and search local job postings to write descriptions quickly.

To simplify things further, we make it easy to publish job postings from an approved job description.

Bring Order to Chaos

Job Description Workflows

Without a well-defined process it is nearly impossible to manage job descriptions effectively.

JobArchitect gives you the flexibility to design a workflow for your organization or upload an existing one. With our centralized command center, you can track progress and job description status with ease. And your revision history is automatically documented, giving you insight into how a position has evolved over time and a paper trail to support audits.

“The flexibility that JobArchitect provides will be beneficial for us when it comes to standardizing our job descriptions across the board, especially with our custom branding. We write job descriptions in conjunction with the departments and organizations we support, so it is vital that we have a way to share drafts with these stakeholders. The user-friendly interface will make collaboration simple.”

"We like to include other staff members in the job description building process, but ultimately the comp team has the final approval on any job description. However, as we move towards pay transparency, we want our job descriptions to be easily accessible for anyone who wants to view them, which JobArchitect will be able to do for us.”

“JobArchitect saves us time and money. Being able to now link the building of our job descriptions back to the compensation side is night and day better from our previous process… We love that we can do whatever we want to do with our job descriptions from one page."

“Salary.com has helped us better manage our job descriptions – from providing a user-friendly system to develop detailed descriptions, to helping create a clean, branded product for our stakeholders. I am all about efficiency and reducing keystrokes, and Salary.com listened!”

"I find JobArchitect to be highly intuitive. Working in a large organization, our library of job descriptions continues to grow, and the platform has helped us meet the changing needs of our organization. We have been able to adapt the platform to meet our needs which has been crucial for success in our organization.”

Collaboration

Work Together Seamlessly

An accurate job description starts with collaboration.

With JobArchitect you can share job descriptions with hiring managers and others in your organization and easily manage the review and approval process using the centralized command center. JobArchitect even establishes a data flow between your HRIS, HCM or ATS to deliver insights across your entire organization.

Market Pricing

Price Jobs with Confidence

Accurate job descriptions are fundamental to getting pay right. JobArchitect ensures that you are working with comprehensive, approved job descriptions so you can feel confident that you are pricing jobs accurately.

Our CompAnalyst integration integration makes it simple to publish and integrate job descriptions for use within the Market Pricing and Salary Structure modules ensuring accurate pricing and consistency across locations and departments.

Precision You Need to Hire Right

Job Specifications

After the job position summary, job descriptions include essential job duties and responsibilities followed by job specification, detailing the minimum eligibility requirements, including skills, competencies, education, and experience required to perform a particular position.

Focus On the Top Job Priorities

Writing Job Duties and Responsibilities

A detailed job description includes the job duties and responsibilities section. Limit job duties and responsibilities to 4 to 6 broad areas that describe the job, including the level of decision-making or management scope. You may add a general statement to describe job duties performed sporadically.

Use JobArchitect stand-alone or with CompAnalyst® to amplify your entire compensation management practice.

No one delivers the one button integration to market price or the combination with seamless reporting. You can blend the fields in JobArchitect with any CompAnalyst fields for a wholistic view of the true status of your jobs.

Win the War for Talent

Job Descriptions and Recruiting

Complete, well-written job descriptions that capture the critical aspects of a job and the required skill set ensure that your market pricing is accurate and competitive. When you hire, it's the right person at the right price point with clear expectations, which means you are retaining your top talent.

Performance

Create a Solid Foundation

A standardized job architecture is fundamental to pay transparency, employee engagement, and organizational performance.

JobArchitect empowers you with the tools you need to standardize job descriptions based on the skills, requirements, and competencies for each role, create job groups and levels, and automate market pricing. It supports the creation and implementation of your job architecture at scale.

Community

Collaborate with Peers

Our Community is available exclusively to CompAnalyst and JobArchitect users and provides a professional environment you can trust. Collaborate with peers, share ideas and learn best practices so you can be successful inside our solutions and across your compensation practices.

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Services

Onboarding

Get started quickly with personalized setup and training resources, automated data loading, and comprehensive matching and pricing services.

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Consulting Services

Engage our experienced consultants to discover innovative, data-driven solutions to your most difficult total rewards challenges.

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Survey Participation

Our team of seasoned compensation professionals is here to help you streamline survey selection, data loading, participation, and analysis.

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“JobArchitect saves us time and money. Being able to link the building of our job descriptions back to the compensation side is night and day better.”

Cayce Fournier
Director, Compensation & HRIS
Loyola University Maryland

“JobArchitect saves us time and money. Being able to link the building of our job descriptions back to the compensation side is night and day better.”