Hiring help for the first time is a good sign — it means your business has grown past what one pair of hands can carry. But before anyone can apply, you have to write the job posting, and that is where many good people stall. A short, fair posting is not hard to write. It just needs a little structure, and a quiet moment with an AI assistant.
Start with what you actually need
Most job postings fail because they are written in a hurry, from a half-remembered template, and end up listing everything except the work. Before you open any tool, sit down for five minutes and write out the three or four tasks this person will do most days. Be honest with yourself. “Answer client emails, chase unpaid invoices, and keep the calendar straight” is a far better starting point than “dynamic team player wanted.”
Then note what you can teach and what you cannot. If you can show someone your filing system in one afternoon, say so. If the role needs fluent French from day one, that belongs in the posting, not in the fine print nobody reads.
Let the AI draft, then you decide
Give the AI your list and a simple brief: write a short, warm, honest posting for a small Swiss business. Ask it to cover the day-to-day work, the hours, the pay range, and what a good candidate looks like — without falling back on clichés like “passionate” or “self-starter.”
Treat the first draft as a sketch, not a finished document. Read it out loud. Cut anything that sounds like it was written by a committee. If the pay range is missing, add it. Postings without numbers get fewer serious applicants, and the people who do apply will ask about money anyway.
Keep it fair, keep it short
A fair posting tells the truth about the work and the pay, and it respects the reader’s time. Aim for something that fits on a single phone screen. A structure that works well looks like this:
- One line on who you are and what you do.
- Three to five bullets on the actual work.
- Hours, location, and pay range, stated plainly.
- One line on who would enjoy the job — and who would not.
- How to apply, in one clear step.
That “who would not enjoy it” line is the most underrated part of the whole posting. It saves you from interviewing people who want a job you are not offering, and it quietly builds trust with everyone else.
A routine you can reuse
Save your brief as a short note you can paste in again next time. The next hire will be faster because you already know your tasks, your hours, and your pay range. The AI does the phrasing; you keep the judgement about who fits.
That is the whole point. The AI does not decide who works with you. It simply gets the posting written in a way that is clear, fair, and quick — so you can get back to running the business that grew enough to need help in the first place.