How to combine the incompatible (and is it necessary)?

[nusratjahan]

If you are looking for a job, then you have certainly noticed, when looking through the list of vacancies, that the employer, when publishing the requirements for the vacancy, tries to combine incompatible duties. For example, an Internet marketer must write articles for a blog and photograph products for a catalog, and a designer , in addition to his typical design duties, must perform those that fall within the competence of other specialists. Here is an example of requirements for a designer from a real job search site:

Development of design accurate mobile phone number list layouts (printing, souvenirs, outdoor advertising);

Preparing files for printing;

Operational printing, post-printing processing, copying;

Working with clients (consulting on the company's services, cost calculation, receiving and issuing orders).

Obviously, the last point of these requirements has nothing to do with the direct profession of a designer. However, applicants often agree to such conditions, especially beginners who need to gain experience. The employer's motive here may be either a desire to save money and find several specialists in the person of one, or a primitive misunderstanding of what a particular professional should do. However, both the employee and the employer will lose from the blurring of professional responsibilities. What does the employer lose? Firstly, the quality of work decreases, and the amount of time spent increases. Secondly, this strategy inevitably leads to an increase in staff turnover, which in itself is even useful if it does not exceed 3-5% per year on average in the organization, since it does not allow stagnant processes to develop and contributes to a certain movement forward, but with excessive staff turnover, the organization will suffer financial losses, have an unstable psychological climate, low employee motivation to work and a disrespectful attitude towards management.

For an employee, especially a beginner, the disadvantage will be the inability to hone the skills of his immediate profession, without being distracted by atypical work activities, thereby depriving himself of competitiveness in the future. The loss of time associated with switching from one job to another and a decrease in the quality of work will not allow him to fully demonstrate and prove himself in his current position. This can affect both the salary and the self-esteem of the employee. Such "leaps" are especially harmful to people of creative and analytical professions, preventing them from fully realizing their potential, loading them with unnecessary routine, which could have been avoided with a more skillful organization.