Input
What it works from
A pasted job description, or answers to 6 short questions: the role, where it is, who it is for, what it pays, what is essential and what the hiring manager actually cares about.
Studio · Playbook · Define
One structured brief. Every other asset is built from it.
Paste a job description or answer 6 questions. Studio turns it into the spec the whole playbook runs on.
The Job Spec is the first thing Studio builds when you add a job. Paste the job description you have been sent, or answer 6 quick questions, and Studio parses it into a structured brief: title, location, employment type, sector, seniority, the must-haves and the nice-to-haves, the hiring organisation and the voice it should be written in. You confirm or correct it in under 2 minutes, and the other 10 assets generate from it.
01 · How it works
What goes in, what comes out.
Output
What you receive
A structured job spec covering title, location, employment type, sector, seniority, must-haves, nice-to-haves, hiring organisation, notes and voice, ready to confirm and hand to the rest of the playbook.
02 · Why it matters
Why this exists.
Most hiring problems are brief problems. The advert underperforms because the must-haves were never separated from the wish list. The search returns the wrong people because the title on the job description is not the title the market uses. The screening call is inconsistent because 2 recruiters read the same job description and took different things from it.
A structured spec fixes that at source. Every downstream asset, from the advert to the interview scorecard, is built from the same confirmed brief, so when the brief changes, the playbook changes with it. Edit the spec and the assets that depend on it flag for regeneration, which is how a mid-search change of salary or location stops being a rewrite of 6 documents.
03 · What it does
5 things this delivers.
- 01 Parses a pasted job description into a structured brief in seconds
- 02 A 6-question intake for jobs that arrive without a document
- 03 Separates must-haves from nice-to-haves so every later asset knows the difference
- 04 Captures the hiring organisation and the voice the assets should be written in
- 05 Edits flag dependent assets for one-click regeneration
04 · In practice
3 ways it shows up.
Scenario 01
An in-house recruiter pastes a job description that has been recycled for 5 years. The spec surfaces 4 requirements that are no longer true, which get corrected before a single advert is written.
Scenario 02
An agency consultant takes a brief on a call with nothing written down. The 6-question intake captures it on the way back to the desk and the playbook is generating before the hiring manager has finished their coffee.
Scenario 03
A salary band moves 2 weeks into a search. The recruiter edits one line of the spec and regenerates the advert, the outreach and the sell sheet from it.
05 · Who it's for
Who this is built for.
Anyone who receives briefs in the wrong shape: a forwarded email, a 4-page job description from 2019, or a hiring manager conversation that never made it onto paper.
06 · Common questions
Things people ask.
Do I have to answer all 6 questions?
No. If you have a job description, paste it and Studio parses it. The questions are for jobs that arrive as a phone call or an email with no document attached.
Can I edit the spec after it is generated?
Yes, at any point. Every field is editable and any asset built from the fields you changed is flagged so you can regenerate it with one click.
What happens if the job description is poor?
Studio parses what is there and shows you the gaps. A thin job description produces a thin spec, so the 2 minutes you spend correcting it are the best 2 minutes in the whole process.
Does the spec write the advert?
Not directly. The spec is the source of truth. The Job Advert, Search Strings, Outreach Kit and every other asset are generated from it, in the voice you set.
Can I write it as my client rather than as me?
Yes. In agency mode the spec carries the hiring organisation and the voice to write in, so client-facing and candidate-facing assets read as the client where they should.
Is it included on Solo?
Yes. All 11 playbook assets and the 3 Desk Radar tools are included on Solo at £149 a month, with a 7-day trial. Card required, cancel any time inside the window.
07 · Next in the playbook
Works well alongside.
Define
Candidate Persona
Motivations, turn-offs, channels and search behaviour, generated first because it shapes everything after it.
Attract
Job Advert
A master advert plus LinkedIn and careers-page versions, audited for inclusion and scored against a 100-point rubric.
Source
Search Strings
Written to each platform's own syntax, including the 5-operator limit on LinkedIn.
Get started
Add a job. Job Spec is in the playbook.
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