Paste your job ad. Get a brutally honest roast of the clichés and red flags that scare candidates off — then a genuinely useful breakdown of how to fix it and attract better applicants. Free, no login.
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No setup, no login, no lengthy form. Three steps from "why is no one applying?" to a job ad that actually pulls candidates in.
Drop in your job description — the live one, the draft, or that tired template you've reused 40 times.
We call out the buzzwords, the hidden salary, the 14-item wish-list and every other red flag — with the receipts.
Then the useful part: a prioritised, plain-English breakdown of exactly what to change to attract better candidates.
Two halves of the same report — one makes the problems impossible to ignore, the other tells you precisely how to solve them.
A real, anonymised job ad — lightly disguised. If any of this stings a little, that's the point.
You're hunting a "rockstar, ninja, marketing guru who lives and breathes brand" — three job titles in one, none of them a real one. The salary is "competitive" (translation: we won't say). You want 14 essential skills for a role that's clearly two jobs in a trench coat, and you'd like someone who can "thrive in ambiguity" — which here reads as "we have no process and you'll fix that for free." Forty-one words about how dynamic and fast-paced you are; zero about what the candidate actually gets.
Every weak job description is a role that stays open longer, a shortlist that's thinner than it should be, and great candidates who quietly scroll past. The fix is rarely a bigger budget — it's clearer language, honest salary, and a realistic ask.
That's the same thinking behind describe.me. Our multi-layer Smart Matching reads for skills, experience depth and aspiration — not keywords — so the right people and the right roles actually find each other. See what describe.me does for recruiters →
Yes — it's completely free and needs no login. Paste your job ad, get your roast and your fix.
Clarity, salary transparency, buzzword overload, inclusivity, an over-stuffed "must-have" list, and the red flags that quietly put good candidates off applying. Then it shows you exactly what to change.
Usually it's a mix of a hidden salary, a wall of jargon, an unrealistic wish-list, and no sense of what the role is actually for. Roast My Job Description spots these patterns and tells you which one is costing you applicants.
A clear salary band, plain language, a realistic list of essentials, and a genuine sense of the role's purpose and the growth on offer. We score your ad against these and give you the rewrite priorities.
No. We read the text, generate your feedback, and discard it — nothing is stored. If you later choose to post roles on describe.me, that's always opt-in and you keep full control of your data. Read our data promise →
Both. The roast is the fun bit that makes the problems obvious. The fix is the serious bit — a prioritised, practical breakdown you can action in minutes.
It takes a minute, it's free, and you'll know exactly what's costing you candidates.
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