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Hiring managers: Don’t make this fatal mistake when writing job descriptions

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A hiring manager I worked with recently spent three weeks screening candidates for a digital marketing role. Strong résumés, solid interviews, plenty of platform experience. She made an offer. The candidate accepted. Two months later, she called me: “They’re great, but they’re not what we actually needed.”



What she needed was someone to rebuild a broken attribution model and realign paid media spend with a new revenue target. What the job description asked for was someone to “manage campaigns

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