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Employer branding: how to write your best talent content
Follow these best practices borrowed from the world of content marketing to...
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Gender equity means faster hiring
Companies with more diverse leadership perform better financially, and are...
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Fixing grammar
The old rules of language still apply, until they don't
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Here’s what happens when you take a company culture poll at SaaStr
We asked people to describe their company culture in one word
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Get plugged in
The Textio browser extension brings augmented writing into your recruiting...
Kieran Snyder co-founder and CEO of Textio with Michael Krupa Senior Director Office of Inclusion and Collaboration at Cisco
How Cisco is finding 18% more qualified candidates and filling roles a week faster
Augmented writing joins Cisco’s hiring technology suite
Kieran Snyder co-founder and CEO of Textio with Sjoerd Gehring, VP of Talent Acquisition & Employee Experience at Johnson & Johnson
How Johnson & Johnson is adding 90,000 more women to their hiring pipeline
Using data science to reinvent the recruiting process at J&J
Kieran Snyder co-founder and CEO of Textio with Aubrey Blanche Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Atlassian
How Atlassian went from 10% female technical graduates to 57% in two years
Diversity as a Science
5 things to do this week at HR Tech Conference
See sessions with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, plus industry experts Josh...
The top 10 states for business jargon
Textio analyzes over a quarter-billion job postings to see where companies...
Small startup competes big for talent
Red-hot tech startup Clarifai rolls out Textio to their entire team to...
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The power of location in job posts
Textio shows how the exact same job listing in two cities can result in...
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Watch your (gender) tone
How Textio reveals the unconscious bias that’s lurking in your job postings...
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What’s so good about Data Exchange?
Here’s why 94% of our enterprise subscribers opt in to Textio’s...
Job post face-off: Investment Bankers
KeyBank vs. RBC: Job post face-off
Textio matches up two investment banking jobs in New York City: Which bank...
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Do this for Pride Month: turn your “EEO statement” into an inclusion promise
Here are three equal employment opportunity additions that go beyond...
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Better hiring starts with smarter writing
The easiest and most effective place to boost your recruiting metrics is at...
Jonathan of team Textio at HR Tech
Come meet Textio in Bellevue, San Francisco & Boston!
In June Textio will be at Recruiter Nation Live, Cloud Tech Summit, HR Tech...
Watch now: How to write a stellar job post
Follow the tips from this free public workshop to write your best job...
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NVIDIA reboots its job description engine
A culture of innovation is fueling the enterprise-wide reinvention of job...
Job post face-off: Data Engineers
Pinterest vs. Twilio: job ad face-off
A line-by-line comparison of competitive job postings from two tech...
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Next week: Textio’s first video workshop
Get ready to explore the data anatomy of a typical job listing with...
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ESPN vs Showtime: Job post face-off
These two cable TV giants have vastly different approaches to writing job...
Look out, Chicago: here comes Textio!
Textio’s 2017 tour of HR conferences continues with stops in Chicago,...
Job post face-off Higher Education
Job post face-off: New York vs. London
A side-by-side comparison of two job ads for roles in higher education—who...
What ad agencies can teach us about writing job posts
If you ever hire people, then you are in the advertising business. Here’s...
Picture or origami boats. This one word about leadership makes executive roles fill faster. Get the data at textio.com/blog.
This one word about leadership makes executive posts fill faster
This one word about leadership makes executive posts fill faster. We...
Job ads are your brand
Your job ads are your brand
Your job ads are your brand. Job postings are the front line of the talent...
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Hollywood’s gender problem starts in its job postings
Hollywood’s gender problem starts in its job postings. Just changing the...
Font matters
Does your font choice affect reader behavior?
2017 Find your nearest HR tech event
Find a 2017 HR tech conference near you
Find a 2017 HR tech conference near you. Use this interactive map of HR...
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Equal opportunity jobs still hire faster
Job posts that use non-discrimination language continued to make gains in...
10 jobs in higher demand for 2017: Filling these 10 roles is going to be even harder this year
10 jobs in higher demand for 2017
Trending data from the last 12 months shows that demand for these roles...
Textio Index Ranking: Department stores
Shopping for the best talent
How do big U.S. department stores stack up when it comes to hiring...
Where synergy refuses to die Despite decades of mockery, "synergy" can still help you hire quickly in some cities
Synergy: the buzzword that refuses to die
Despite decades of mockery, “synergy” can still help you hire quickly in...
Where volunteer experience counts most
Data shows some cities put more stock in volunteer experience than others...
There are only 5 supercities on Earth
Job posts with the word “super” perform poorly everywhere else
These cities are kind of intense
Portland and other places where "intense" job posts perform better - and...
Hiring to a degree
How an education requirement in your job post impacts hiring performance
Copy editing roles fill faster when they include technical writing
Wanted: Copy editors who get technical
Copy editing roles fill faster when they include technical writing
"Serve customers" beats "latest tools" in faster-filling job ads
Software engineers like people too?
Software engineers like people too? Data shows that “serve customers” means...
’Tis the season for seasonal jobs
’Tis the season for seasonal jobs. Which cities have the highest number of...
How many job postings include turkey, gravy or pumpkin pie?
Yes, even turkey dinner shows up in hiring.
Yes, even turkey dinner shows up in hiring. How many job postings include...
Still looking for that "rock star" candidate? Here are 5 more terms that statistically mean your job post will fill very slowly.
Still looking for that “rock star” candidate?
Still looking for that “rock star” candidate? Here are 5 more terms that...
8 places where competitive language is either good or bad in job posts
What cities are “competitive?”
What cities are “competitive?” 8 places where competitive language is good...
What jobs are hottest right now? The top 20 types of job postings being written in Textio this month
What jobs are hottest right now?
What jobs are hottest right now? The top 20 types of job postings being...
What does it take to hire well in Alaska?
What does it take to hire well in Alaska? Statistically, these 7 hiring...
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Seeking “honest” work? Try Seattle.
Honesty is a job virtue, in some places
Hey veterans, these places want to hire you!
These are the 10 U.S. cities with the highest number of job posts seeking...
To fill tech jobs fast, "learn" more. Fact: tech job posts with learning language will fill faster and help you hire more women
To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more
To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more. Tech job posts with language about...
Uncapped commission structures and flexible working hours
Uncapped commission structures and flexible working hours. 7 reasons why...
Everything is not awesome
Everything is not awesome. If you call a job “awesome,” will it fill faster?...
“Fast-paced” jobs fill faster
But not in big cities!
Hawaii is fastest for filling hotel jobs
Hawaii is fastest for filling hotel jobs. But who is the speediest hotel...
What does it take to get hired in DC?
What does it take to get hired in DC? High-performing job post phrases in...
Where is cool not cool? Jobs that are described as cool fill faster in London, but slower in NYC and Sydney. Cool jobs fill faster in Chicago, London, Salt Lake City, Washington DC. Cool jobs fill slower in Los Angeles, New York City, Sydney, San Francisco
Where is “cool” not cool?
Another example of how location can change the language that works
The World Series of Jobs infographic
The World Series of Jobs
Chicago vs. Cleveland: 9 phrases in competitive recruiting