Q. What is Job specification?

Another product of the job analysis is the job specification, term popularized by the U.S. training and employment service used to it to refer to a summary of the personnel characteristics required for a job. It tries to describe the key qualifications someone needs to perform the job successfully. It spells out the important attributes of a person in the terms of education, experience, skills, knowledge and abilities (SKAs) to perform a particular job. The job specification is a logical outgrowth of a job description. For the each job description, it is desirable to have a job specification. This helps the organization to find that what kinds of persons are needed to take up specific jobs.

According to Dale Yoder, "job specification as a summary is a specialized job specification, emphasizing personnel requirements and designed specially to facilitate selection and placements".

In the words of Edwin B. Flippo, "a job specification is a statement of the minimum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job properly".