Job description best practices based on hiring data
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Hiring
How to write job descriptions in 2024: Best practices from a billion job posts
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.
Language
Job performance feedback is heavily biased: new Textio report
Textio analysis reveals major biases in workplace language
Diversity
How Checkout.com’s inclusive language work inspires real behavioral change
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Checkout.com!
Diversity
Does pay transparency bring inclusion? The data says yes
Early data from Colorado says showing pay bands increases appeal of a job post to women and people of all ages
Language
Big tech and the big empathy gap
Data shows major tech companies ignoring values that employees want
Language
Measurement matters in achieving your inclusion and belonging goals
Textio's language trend reports help you manage your inclusive language evolution
Inclusion
500 reasons to get certified in Inclusive Recruiting
Textio U students share their motivations for getting certified
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
Diversity
The power of language and its role in inclusion
How your words can amplify a virtuous cycle of belonging
Language
What a president sounds like: Dominance vs. democracy
Comparing the inauguration speeches of Biden and Trump
Language
What do you learn by measuring language?
Cultural signals that only language data can reveal
Language
Understanding pandemic work and the limits of war language
Our media and politicians rely on war metaphors, but data reveals more effective, supportive language
Diversity
Avoiding harmful language in hiring content
Textio now provides expanded guidance for offensive phrases, developed from these helpful public resources
Diversity
Hiring language points to unequal economic recovery
Inclusive language in hiring content is suddenly dropping after years of improvement
Employer Branding
Growth-mindset language is (still) better for employer brand
Four years on, the data still supports using growth-mindset language
Fintech
How smaller banks are landing bigger talent
What Big Finance can learn from more nimble industry players
Language
The Rise of “Slam” Journalism
Usage of violent verbs in news headlines has skyrocketed since the 2016 presidential election
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
Language
Welcome to the world, Textio Flow!
Textio Flow is the missing link between the company you are and the company you want to be
Diversity
Textio signs on with McDonald’s Corporation to bring augmented writing to their recruiting emails and job posts
In conjunction with International Women’s Day, McDonald’s looks to innovate recruiting process with Textio
Hiring
Show me the data
Now Textio gives you a look at the numbers behind augmented writing, with every document you write
Diversity
Secret language of your job posts
Continuing the conversation around language and company culture
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
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
Hiring
Burlington Coat Factory knows how to compete in hiring
What you can learn from “Great Place to Work” Burlington Coat Factory about writing highly effective job posts
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 5
Write your job listings with real-time data to predict how applicants will react
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 4
Convince the best candidates to apply with language that’s performing well today
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 3
The most effective listings are also the most engaging
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 1
What’s the key to attracting good candidates? Let’s take a look at the data
Hiring
Synergy: the buzzword that refuses to die
Despite decades of mockery, “synergy” can still help you hire quickly in some cities
Language
These cities are kind of intense
Portland and other places where "intense" job posts perform better - and worse
Language
What is the U.S. Senate saying about the #TrumpTapes?
A look at public responses in the 72 hours following the release of the Trump video
Diversity
Language changes faster than you think
Looking back at the biggest winners and losers in the tech job lexicon
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