Most important thing is accuracy/honesty. Nothing worse than overselling a backwater tech or a bureaucratic mess as a dream job.
PS: Avoid boilerplate phrases that constitute 'sweatshop-smells' like "passionate developer".
Most important thing is accuracy/honesty. Nothing worse than overselling a backwater tech or a bureaucratic mess as a dream job.
PS: Avoid boilerplate phrases that constitute 'sweatshop-smells' like "passionate developer".
The phrase "work hard, play hard" is one of those phrases that raises alarm bells for me. I get an image of people working 12 hour days until they're burnt out and then having wild, beer-chugging parties. No thank you.
I completely agree on the laundry list thing. More often than not, it's more of a turn off. I find it particularly funny when I see $CurrentDotNetTech...jquery, javascript, css or similar. They'd be better off just mentioning "C#/.Net web development" and leave it at that. Over-specificity or too long of a list just leads me to believe the decision makers settled on their tech a decade and a half ago, and never grew from there.