Wedding photographer job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Wedding photographer in details. A complete job description concludes Wedding photographer key duties/responsibilities, Wedding photographer job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Wedding photographer duties:

1. Gratuities available
2. Additional bonuses available
3. Prompt, reliable payment
4. Full customer service support
5. Prepaid UPS label to send us your media
6. Maintain a fashionable and professional image and be a customer service role model
7. Consistently seek new fashion and product knowledge to act as an expert for the customer
8. Search for innovative ways to increase business through use of Personal Book, store traffic, customer referrals, website requests and personal networking
9. Provide expertise and honest confident feedback regarding merchandise style and fit
10. Wardrobe every customer for all ancillary events surrounding the wedding day
11. Use directive selling skills through cross, team and on-line selling to maximize the customer's wardrobe needs
12. Build lasting relationships by contacting customers to follow up on purchases, suggest new merchandise and invite them to upcoming store events related to their wedding event
13. Demonstrate leadership in your Wedding Suite while selling throughout the entire store
14. Set and achieve personal daily, monthly, yearly and special event goals

II. List of Wedding photographer qualifications

1. Proven experience as a videographer
2. Own high-quality digital video equipment, including professional HD camera, back-up, on-board lighting, wireless lavaliere and tripod
3. Strong in-camera edit skills
4. Computer proficiency, particularly the ability to back up footage to an external hard drive before sending us the original copy
5. Professional appearance and demeanor
6. Weekend availability
7. Proven photographic experience
8. Own high-quality digital equipment, including camera and back-up, lenses and flash
9. Computer proficiency, particularly enhancing images via LightRoom
10. Professional appearance and demeanor
11. Current knowledge of the latest photographic trends and technology

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.