[pgh]

From my experience, large corporations have standardized job roles (e.g. SE5) and these have descriptions attached to them, describing the role in the numbing HR verbage shown in the post. This text is used everywhere from hiring, all the way to assessing your performance. Much like legal texts, the meaning is precise in the hands of HR but for anyone else appears stuffy and verbose.

Unfortunately, the hiring manager often has to use this prescribed text and if they are lucky they may have a paragraph added on to describe what the real role entails.

[notahacker]

Absolutely. There are edge cases where the firm doesn't want applicants, and plenty more cases where using appropriate jargon attracts only the qualified job seekers.

There are also plenty of corporations who consistently advertise positions with abominable phrases like "reliably exceed assigned activity and revenue quota within designated territory" or "leverage relationships across cross-functional multinational teams within a matrix structure" or "ensure developments are communicated appropriately to the line manager and relevant stakeholders through relevant channels" because corporate bullet points on expectations for new staff members weren't written with the idea of attracting them. (And in some cases were written to ensure a sufficiently large number of possible grounds for not retaining hires that didn't appear to be working out.)