diff --git a/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs.md b/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs.md
index 3939fd20dc..29071c863e 100644
--- a/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs.md
+++ b/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs.md
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ your job name and pod name would be different.
 
 ```shell
 # Replace "hello-4111706356" with the job name in your system
-$ pods=$(kubectl get pods --selector=job-name=hello-4111706356 --output=jsonpath={.items..metadata.name})
+$ pods=$(kubectl get pods -a --selector=job-name=hello-4111706356 --output=jsonpath={.items..metadata.name})
 
 $ echo $pods
 hello-4111706356-o9qcm