Welcome to Job Description Quotes, a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes that encapsulate the essence of job descriptions. Job descriptions serve as the blueprint for roles within organizations, delineating responsibilities, expectations, and qualifications. Whether you’re a hiring manager crafting the perfect description or a job seeker navigating through potential opportunities, these quotes offer wisdom and perspective on the significance of job descriptions in the professional realm.
Job descriptions not only outline the tasks and requirements of a role but also reflect the values and culture of the employing organization. They serve as a bridge between employers and employees, setting the framework for mutual understanding and alignment. Throughout history, thought leaders, business magnates, and professionals alike have offered their perspectives on the importance and impact of job descriptions in shaping careers and organizational success. From insightful observations to motivational words, the quotes gathered here shed light on the multifaceted role job descriptions play in the world of work. Discover wisdom, guidance, and inspiration as you explore the quotes on this page.
We MPs may not have a job description, but I’m pretty certain one of our responsibilities is to scrutinise and approve domestic legislation. Heidi Allen
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description. Jeremy Grantham
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn’t see that as a requirement in my job description. Jeff Daniels
Politicians, it’s in their job description to just lie, every day. Rob Delaney
Temptation is impossible for me to resist… Come on. This is Hollywood. It’s in the job description. Tom Sizemore
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself. Hillary Clinton
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it’s possible that I’m a victim of my own job description. Others don’t inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money. Seth Shostak
I was the first one to say, ‘I’ll cover that, I’ll stay late. I’ll go to that shoot.’ Anything I could do to add to my job description… I also found out – you can’t learn this in college – but I had a knack for dealing with talent in stressful situations and knowing how to make them feel comfortable and also being fairly truthful. Lindsay Shookus
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what’s in their job description. Sophia Amoruso
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else’s experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. Juliet Stevenson
It’s definitely part of my job description not to be too fat. Elizabeth Hurley
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. Gene Tierney
When I used to model, the job description is ‘shut up and pose.’ There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and ‘just shut up and pose.’ Kathy Ireland
It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that’s the job description. Lesley Manville
My job description is… being enthusiastic. Dhani Harrison
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort. William Gibson
One thing an exceptional employee never says is, ‘That’s not in my job description.’ Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions. Travis Bradberry
Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is. Randy Moss
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. Madeleine M. Kunin
It is part of my job description to be offensive. Frankie Boyle
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker’s job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues. James Surowiecki
When I read the scene where I’m actually chainsawing my way out of the belly of a shark, how could a guy turn that down when that’s in the job description? Ian Ziering
Being an MP can be tough – there’s no job description, no training manual, sometimes you feel like you’re doing a good job and some days you’re a blubbering mess – well, maybe that’s just me. Heidi Allen
I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I’m talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn’t their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment. Shalita Grant
Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father’s company paid, in a Cadillac his father’s company leased to ‘scope out properties,’ Donald’s job description seems to have included lying about his ‘accomplishments’ and allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Black people. Mary L. Trump
There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting ‘nose-to-nose’ was part of my job description. Doug Harvey
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn’t mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don’t have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. Jay Parini
How can you run for president if you don’t know the job description? Mohamed ElBaradei
The really hard thing for both men and women is getting older: it becomes increasingly difficult to live a life based on uncertainty, disempowerment is written into the job description. Lesley Sharp
The army’s original job description was to protect borders, but a demanding country depends on it for everything else too, from rebuilding bridges after a tsunami to keeping the peace when religious riots erupt. Barkha Dutt
There is no job description for the first lady and she’s only there because her husband got elected president. Nancy Reagan
The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching a manger and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting ‘nose-to-nose’ was part of my job description. Doug Harvey
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique – you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere. Kevin Nealon
Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract’s wording. Stanley A. McChrystal
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste. James Turrell
‘Founder’ is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders. Reid Hoffman
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. Mayim Bialik
Whenever I fill out the job description I put ‘songwriter’, never ‘singer’ or ‘artist.’ Singers come and go. Brian McKnight
I can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. Maria Sharapova
I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren’t supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience. Thomas McGuane
Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too. Andy Warhol
Don’t be limited by your job description. Stacey Snider
My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like. Julia Restoin Roitfeld
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation’s city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration’s economic recovery strategy for the nation. Thomas Frank
In terms of people who we call heroes – and I don’t tend to like that term, and firefighters don’t consider themselves heroes – but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people. Jesse Spencer
Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It’s inevitable, and it’s part of the deal. It’s part of the job description. Steven Wilson
My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters. Devon Cajuste
Get to know the job intimately that you’re applying for. Don’t just read the job description – study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage. Travis Bradberry
Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves to a calling in which threats that can materialize in an instant are part of the job description. Lee Zeldin
Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future. Katrina Lake
In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that’s fun. Hilary Hahn
If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn’t disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. Indeed, his early enthusiasm for the Internet – and a continuing principle of faith for him – was that it was free. Michael Wolff
Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities. Tucker Carlson
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. Deb Caletti
