Is this job advert off putting?

[Theultracheese]

What do you think if you read a job description like this?

“They need a multitasker, someone who loves managing multiple projects at once, thrives in constant change and has the adaptability to succeed in this type of environment.

You’re responsible for fixing, solving, thinking on your feet and putting out fires! Therefore this needs a “get it done” individual, a proactive approach, someone who will enjoy a young, energetic team and bounce off the dynamics of the people around you.”

In other words nightmare job where you will be at everybody's beck and call and expected to do the impossible. Maybe expected to clean the office when the cleaner is on holiday or let go to save money. Avoid like the plague.

Oh no, they sold me the dream, but I am currently living through hell 😢

I found the job online

Woah!!!

This sounds like what I get contracted to do, but I have a good day rate. I am hugely experienced in my sector and I only go in when the team want help to make changes.
I am polite and firm with clients where attitudes to the team need changing,
I bloody love it, but I don’t stay long. Fix the problem, create the ongoing plan and then I am gone. I try before I buy and only work with teams who I think want to change.

Usually that sort of job pays peanuts but "that's fine because you're working for such a great team" 🙄

One issue for me would be that youngsters take a lot of time having days off eg MH days ,duvet days etc so it would be no from me.

Sorry?

Excellent sleuthing!

I think it's good that they are not trying to make it look like something it isn't. It seems honest and it will appeal to some people and those are the types of people who will enjoy the role. I like it, it's a no nonsense ad that will help to weed out a lot of applicants that don't actually want to work that way.

I thought so.
I wonder how bad this job will be then if we consider that job ads make the job sound good. Must be incredibly awful.

Someone who will enjoy a young... No.

I am exhausted from just reading the ad

And it's where somebody else (or multiple people) will compete to offload the shittiest tasks that are their responsibility onto you with zero training, to then claim its your fault it hasn't been done before you started.

Run away.

I found it engaging until someone who will enjoy a young, energetic team - that implies (to me) that they want someone who is young but can't say it directly. Even if that isn't what they mean, a vision of myself (50) sitting with my grey hair with a load of twenty-somethings bouncing around the office isn't attractive. I like to work in teams that have a good spread of ages - a mix of youth, experience and cynicism wisdom.

Otherwise it would be perfect for me, I have all the skills they want.

Perhaps that is there very intentionally

they have found a way of just skirting around the law on age discrimination because the team is very young and they want to maintain that demographic

Unless it is for a fire fighter then I would be massively put off by this.

It sounds stressful and like the team has no idea what they are doing.

The only thing that put me off was the “young” team point. I don’t feel young any more and would worry about how my face would fit in the long term.

Everything is right up my street though. I thrive in high pressure, volatile scenarios when I need to make decisions and act quickly. I like a varied role too so I think it would suit me, but not at £34k…

Putting out fires with an exclamation mark.

I’d pass.

On the face of it, it sounds similar to what I do (and enjoy doing!) but I'm at a senior level on significantly more money than is being offered for this role (I've also found it online!)

It seems a bit odd to me to have that sort of role description and duties within a job title of senior administrator though, that feels like a mis-match.

Sounds stressful and chaotic.

Also the use of 'young team' comes across as ageist.

I would pass on that one.

This reads to me..We're a shit show, we hired a load of young people and everything is a chaotic mess, we need someone to come and sort it out. We have no processes, you will need to create them. We don't know how to fix this and hoping you can.
However, this is actually my speciality. I specialise in transformation in a chaotic shit show. Its not for everyone though. I dis once join a company and it didnt work out after 2 months the owner said to me I should go and join somewhere more professional when they didn't accept my transformation recommendations. There are some places too messy to fix
Edited to say I have just found it online.. and I wouldnt be phtting out fires for that salary. I do it for 4 x that and I dont think I get paid enough. But.. it could be a stepping stone to programe management type roles looking at the JD.. so if thats interesting for you then it could be a good step alongside some PM courses.