Let’s Roast.
What if the problem isn’t your candidate pool, but your job title?
In this experimental episode, Jen and Paul co-design a role in real time and uncover how language, structure, and transparency can either attract the right systems thinker… or flood you with the wrong applicants. If you care about inclusive hiring, operational clarity, and not herding cats forever, this one’s for you.
UPDATE: Jen sent an offer out to a candidate who went through this hiring process. This bonus episode captures some outcomes, and her thoughts on the process and the restructured job ad. You can catch the original episode where we picked apart her job ad here.
Follow along with the full job ad here :
The Bigger Picture
How do you design a job ad that signals autonomy, inclusivity, and operational ownership… without drowning in volume or ambiguity?
This episode reframes hiring as a systems design challenge: the job post isn’t a formality, it’s the first operational blueprint for the role.
At a Glance: The Job Profile
Job Title: Executive Assistant —> Operations Coordinator
Report-to Title: VP, People Operations
Company Size: 10-20
Industry: Venture Capital
What do they do?: Invest in small-to-medium-sized majority Indigenous-owned enterprises across North America.
Head Office Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Job Location: Remote (Canada)
Geographical Operating Area: North America
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent (Remote)
Roast the Post is a passion project of Jen Houle and Paul Austin-Menear. The show helps job-seekers and employers get dud job ads out of their lives. We use contributions made on Buy Me a Coffee to help pay for our production costs, and donate anything raised beyond our costs to charity.
