Job specifications

“Job Specification involves listing of employee qualifications, s****s and abilities required to meet the job description. These specifications are needed to do job satisfactorily.”

In other words it is a statement of minimum and acceptable human qualities necessary to perform job properly. Job specifications seeks to indicate what kind of persons may be expected to most closely approximate the role requirements and thus it is basically concerned with matters of selection, screening and placement and is intended to serve as a guide in hiring.

Contents of Job Specifications
1.Physical Characteristics
2.Psychological characteristics
3.Personal characteristics
4.Responsibilities
5.Demographic features

Further the job specifications can be divided into three broad categories
Essential Attributes
Desirable Attributes
Contra-Indicators – indicators hampering the success of job