What is a Job Posting?

A job posting is an advertisement created by the employer to promote the open vacancy within the company or the organization. The posting might appear either on the company's website or in newspapers and magazine, or social networking sites or are posted online on free posting sites.

There are two main types of job postings, the internal and external postings. As the name suggests, the internal postings are only for the employees. Many times the existing employees have the required skills and qualification required for a particular position. The managers often post the vacancy internally and save the times and money involved in the overall hiring process. While the external postings are open to the public. External postings are done to acquire fresh new talent who possesses skills that are not available.

The job postings are created by the employer or the HR professionals. It might sound to be quite simple, but there are many factors that are to be considered for a good job posting. A good post is crucial as it is said, 'A good job post results in the good employee'. Thus to attract the best in the business, you need to have a good job posting.

What to include in the job posting could be sometime confusing. Let us see, the key ingredients of the perfect posting recipe.