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The Words That Win: Why Job Postings Matter More Than You Think
Learn how to optimize job postings to attract the right talent using data-driven language strategies from Textio’s Recruiting Roundtable insights.
Hiring
Stop Writing Job Posts That Scare Away the Right People
Craft job posts that attract top talent by using clear titles, highlighting key responsibilities, showing growth paths, and being human and inclusive.
Hiring
What top talent really wants (Spoiler: it’s not just the money)
Discover what truly attracts the best talent: growth, impact, authenticity, and belonging. Learn why authenticity and meaningful relationships matter more than just a paycheck.
Hiring
The true cost of a bad hire
Discover the hidden costs of bad hires—from morale and productivity hits to cultural impacts—and learn strategies to improve your hiring process.
Hiring
How to write job descriptions in 2024: Best practices from a billion job posts
Job description best practices based on hiring data
Hiring
Want to hire more women?
Finding and retaining women in tech is a struggle. Let’s look at why.
Diversity
How to craft a sincere equal opportunity employer statement
Tips for writing a meaningful and effective equal opportunity employer statement, including real examples and writing prompts.
Diversity
12 practical diversity and inclusion activities you can start today
Many DEI activities for the workplace require a lot of time and effort. Give one of these shorter exercises a try to continue making progress every day.
Hiring
“I came across your profile on LinkedIn”
Learn how to find candidates on LinkedIn by avoiding bad messaging and optimizing your outreach for a response.
Economy
Three ways to use language to build a more inclusive recovery
Lessons from looking at the language and unequal economic impact of the pandemic
Hiring
Customer spotlight: how to use Textio to make job postings more inclusive
The Tucows team shares their year of leadership in inclusive hiring
Case study
How a workforce solutions company’s corporate recruiting team refined their candidate experience
Kelly® ensures every touchpoint for candidates and employees reflects their values
Employer Branding
Growth-mindset language is (still) better for employer brand
Four years on, the data still supports using growth-mindset language
Diversity
4 overlooked types of bias in business writing
How implicit bias shows up in (and upends) everyday work writing
Hiring
Hiring fast, amid a fast-growing health crisis
A few tips to attract the right candidates and fill critical roles quickly
Diversity
It starts with the message you’re sending
How the County of Los Angeles is changing its candidate pipeline with language
Employer Branding
How to describe your company culture
Find your true company values—and the right words to express them
Employer Branding
Recruitment marketing: 5 campaign tips from a marketer’s playbook
Answer these five questions to build a powerful recruitment marketing campaign
Employer Branding
How to create an employee value proposition
A step-by-step guide to writing an attractive and authentic EVP
Diversity
When words become actions: diversity pledges vs. cultural truths
CEOs are pledging to do better on diversity, but the real-world impact of your company's values are felt through the words you use every single day doing business
Fintech
How smaller banks are landing bigger talent
What Big Finance can learn from more nimble industry players
Hiring
How the defense industry can compete with Big Tech and win the talent war
An analysis of top defense contractors’ job posts shows that their distinctive language is turning off qualified candidates
Hiring
You have arrived… are we there yet?
The necessity of learning loops for platforms built on dynamic data
Hiring
In recruiting, first impressions count
Textio for Outlook brings augmented writing to your Office
Hiring
Augmented writing is the new analytics
Why the next wave in productivity software will come from knowing how you sound
Diversity
Why sharing is critical to job posts that attract the most qualified candidates
Writing together in Textio makes your workflow faster and more efficient
Hiring
Strategies for hiring managers in 2019, part 3
More tips from Textio hiring managers on finding the best engineering talent
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Strategies for hiring managers in 2019
Tips from Textio hiring managers on finding the best engineering talent
Hiring
Fraser Health reinvents the job post
How a healthcare provider in Canada reclaimed their job posts
Employer Branding
Find out how the language in your employer brand is really working
With this new feature, your hiring teams can streamline their workflow for writing on-brand job posts without relying on stale old templates
Hiring
What happens at HR Tech does not stay at HR Tech, 2018
Highlights coming out of the annual Las Vegas extravaganza
Free Ebook
The secret language of sourcing
Our new guide shows you what passive candidates really think of your recruiting email, and how to get them to respond
Entrepreneurship
It's not just the words you choose, but how you use them
What the length of your recruiting email says to job candidates about your company culture and your industry
Entrepreneurship
Finding a common language
For Johnson & Johnson’s recruiters and hiring managers, communication is key to making the best hires
Entrepreneurship
Textio wins two International Business Awards (aka the Stevie awards)
Textio Hire lauded as “Best New Product in Human Capital Management,” and customer NVIDIA took home “Best Human Resources Team”
Entrepreneurship
Textio voted Washington’s #1 best place to work!
Seattle Business magazine announces Textio as the top midsize company to work for in Washington
Hiring
Zillow Group drives inclusion with augmented writing
How Textio Hire helped Zillow Group see 16% better response rate from passive candidates and three weeks faster time to hire
Employer Branding
Hiring well, when so few are looking
Four proven strategies to help you hire the best people during the worst talent crunch
Hiring
Why Evergreen roles screw up your hiring data, and what to do about it
How to track jobs that are always open
Hiring
Intuition vs. data: why your beliefs often fail you
The power of the data behind augmented writing
Hiring
Consistent quality and branding is key to job posts that work
First-hand lessons from Broadridge, Chicago Trading Company, and Zillow on revamping job descriptions for a better candidate experience
Hiring
Show me the data
Now Textio gives you a look at the numbers behind augmented writing, with every document you write
Hiring
Don’t rely on guesswork for recruiting
Drawing the line between speculation and fact with accurate measurement
Hiring
Announcing Textio Hire
Boost engagement with both active and passive job candidates using augmented writing
Hiring
Get plugged in
The Textio browser extension brings augmented writing into your recruiting email
Diversity
Can the words you use change the people you work with?
Separating correlation and causation in people analytics
Hiring
5 ways to make every job applicant feel like a superstar
Build long-term relationships through high-touch recruiting
Diversity
How Cisco is finding 18% more qualified candidates and filling roles a week faster
Augmented writing joins Cisco’s hiring technology suite
Hiring
Why the best job posts come from team effort
Unlock the power of collaboration to improve the hiring performance of your job listings
Diversity
NVIDIA chalks up major hiring gains to augmented writing technology
New hiring metrics show exactly how Textio is helping NVIDIA innovate to win the best talent
Hiring
Puget Sound Business Journal bestows Innovation Award on Textio
Textio selected for its ability to shape the future of business
Diversity
Secret language of your job posts
Continuing the conversation around language and company culture
Diversity
How Johnson & Johnson is adding 90,000 more women to their hiring pipeline
Using data science to reinvent the recruiting process at J&J
Hiring
Top 5 Textio stories of 2017
From augmented writing to company culture, here are Textio’s most read stories of 2017
Diversity
‘Fire your headhunter’: How Orrick found the highest quality candidates without the fees
How Orrick connected their hiring managers back into the writing process
Diversity
How Atlassian went from 10% female technical graduates to 57% in two years
Diversity as a Science
Hiring
Looking to hire a human? Write a job listing for humans.
Engaging job posts improve hiring outcomes
Diversity
How Evernote attracts more qualified and diverse applicants
An analysis of hiring performance before and after Textio
Diversity
The 3 myths about job descriptions you need to stop believing now
Once you let go of these beliefs, you’ll start writing better job posts
Diversity
How the science behind Textio helped The Co-Op reach 17% more qualified candidates
Writing more efficiently, and with better results
Hiring
Why high turnover jobs have the highest Textio scores
How changes in language impact hiring across industries
Diversity
How Broadridge doubled qualified applicants
Twice as many qualified people apply to Broadridge job postings that have a Textio Score of 90 or above
Hiring
Taming enterprise-sized job libraries with Textio Groups
New collaboration feature organizes your documents into groups and tracks team analytics
Hiring
11 companies that get benefits right
These companies offer the most benefits and perks that Textio shows help hire faster than average
Diversity
What happens at HR Tech does not stay at HR Tech
A few takeaways from this year's conference
Hiring
Textio named “Top Product” by Human Resource Executive Magazine
Here's what Human Resources Executive Magazine editors had to say
Diversity
Beyond Words: How structure impacts your job post’s performance
Learn the many factors that impact the outcome of a job post
Hiring
Three surprising trends that talent leaders are embracing
There’s some new thinking among HR execs on how to approach IT resources, employer branding, and automation
Hiring
How to copy a great job listing
Using Textio's document library to collaborate more effectively
Hiring
The top 10 states for business jargon
Textio analyzes over a quarter-billion job postings to see where companies are putting the most jargon in their writing
Hiring
Three quick tips for a well-written job description—based on today’s hiring data
Like Goldilocks, a standout job post has the just-right mix of bullets, word count, and sentence length
Hiring
The power of location in job posts
Textio shows how the exact same job listing in two cities can result in very different hiring outcomes
Diversity
Watch your (gender) tone
How Textio reveals the unconscious bias that’s lurking in your job postings
Hiring
What’s so good about Data Exchange?
Here’s why 94% of our enterprise subscribers opt in to Textio’s game-changing learning loop
Hiring
Three questions you should ask before investing in “AI” for HR
The artificial intelligence label is everywhere in HR tech for 2017. Will it actually help you hire better? Here’s how to decide.
Diversity
Augmentation, not automation, is the future of hiring tech
Reporting from the HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition 2017 conference
Diversity
Which hiring metrics truly matter?
Only the metrics that you’re willing to be accountable to
Hiring
KeyBank vs. RBC: Job post face-off
Textio matches up two investment banking jobs in New York City: Which bank will get a better return on their talent investment?
Hiring
Better hiring starts with smarter writing
The easiest and most effective place to boost your recruiting metrics is at the very beginning
Hiring
Exactly how bad jargon is holding back your hiring
Corporate cliches are no joke: using them in a job description can make the role 3x more likely to fill slowly
Diversity
If it ain’t broke, you’re probably going to fix it anyway
Given the opportunity, writers choose to improve what’s good nearly twice as often as they choose to fix problems
Hiring
Humans are still the best writers
In augmented writing, unique voices are the most important part of the learning loop
Hiring
Watch now: How to write a stellar job post
Follow the tips from this free public workshop to write your best job description ever, using data from millions of hiring outcomes
Hiring
NVIDIA reboots its job description engine
A culture of innovation is fueling the enterprise-wide reinvention of job postings at NVIDIA, and it starts with Textio
Careers
How “green words” find good employees
Green phrases in Textio are statistically proven to draw in more candidates who will make it past the first interview
Hiring
Pinterest vs. Twilio: job ad face-off
A line-by-line comparison of competitive job postings from two tech industry pioneers: which one will hire the better tech talent?
Careers
What is the Textio Score? Taking the subjectivity out of writing job descriptions
Your Textio Score tells you how fast your job will fill
Hiring
Next week: Textio’s first video workshop
Get ready to explore the data anatomy of a typical job listing with Customer Success Engineer Allie Hall
Entrepreneurship
Textio takes another top award in HR tech
We just won the iTalent Competition at HRO Today Forum 2017
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