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Announcing Textio U for all

Every employee has a role to play in making their company’s commitment to DEIB a reality. That’s why every Textio subscription comes with unlimited access to Textio U, a growing collection of lessons and certifications about how workplace communication shapes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 

Now, it’s even easier to share Textio U broadly beyond your recruiting team. Textio’s latest product release introduces Textio U student accounts, which gives users access to Textio’s learning resources independently from job post libraries, templates, and other recruiting tools. 

Check out our top courses, and encourage your team to get certified today. We can’t wait to hear what you learn.

Certification: Equitable Performance Feedback

The feedback we give at work impacts important career outcomes. Giving and receiving feedback is a skill that every manager needs to support employee engagement, growth, and advancement. This course—taught by Textio's CEO Kieran Snyder—shows you how to provide fair, actionable, and equitable feedback.  

Access:
Open-access certification course 

Who it's for:
Anyone who gives feedback at work including leaders, managers, and peers

Lesson topics
  • Exploring how performance feedback impacts equity
  • Delivering high-quality feedback 
  • Creating an equitable performance feedback culture

Certification: Interrupting Bias in Hiring

Many common recruiting and hiring practices perpetuate bias. To ensure objectivity in the process, awareness of how to identify and interrupt bias is foundational. In this certification, explore how to attract talent inclusively to your organization and stay objective in interviewing. 

Access:
Open-access certification course 

Who it's for:
Anyone who participates in recruiting and hiring

Lesson topics
  • Bringing bias into focus 
  • Attracting talent inclusively 
  • Evaluating candidates objectively 

Certification: Inclusive Employer Brand

Everyone who engages with your company plays an active role in your employer brand story. The language you use and the culture you cultivate determine how candidates and employees view your company as a place to work. In this course, learn to communicate your company's culture and values inclusively, and find techniques to better attract, engage, and retain talent.

Access:
Exclusive for Textio customers 

Who it's for:
Recruiters and talent acquisition leaders 

Lesson topics
  • Employer brand is everywhere
  • Expressing unique value proposition (EVP)
  • Inclusive employer brand language 
  • Harnessing employee advocacy 

Certification: Inclusive Recruiting

Learn directly from inclusion leaders and language experts who share science and best practices behind using communication to appeal broadly to a diverse talent pipeline. Develop more mindfulness, empathy, and sincerity as a communicator and discover insights about your language patterns.   

Access:
Exclusive for Textio customers 

Who it's for:
Recruiters and talent acquisition leaders 

Lesson topics
  • Empathy and sincerity
  • Inclusion and non-exclusion
  • Intentional culture 

Advanced Seminar: How to find and fight bias in your language

This four-part series hosted by Dr. Eleanor Chestnut—linguist, psychologist, and former Textio—will walk you through recent research from linguistics and psychology. From those insights, Dr. Chestnut translates these into concrete tips that you can use across many points in the employee engagement process to promote a more inclusive, equitable culture at your company.

Access:
Exclusive for Textio customers 

Who it's for:
Anyone who is curious about language science, culture, and DEIB

Lesson topics
  • Bias in your day-to-day language
  • The negative impact of identity labels
  • Language bias in performance reviews
  • What your language says about your company 

 

You can find all the Textio U courses and certifications at learn.textio.com. Anyone can sign up for open-access courses. If your employer is a Textio customer, sign in with your work email to get access to the full catalog.

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