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Hiring
The True Cost of a Bad Hire
Recruiting
To-dos for an intentional and inclusive candidate journey
Create an intentional and inclusive candidate journey with tips on job descriptions, diversity, equity, interview prep, and fostering inclusivity in the workplace.
Recruiting
Textio's approach to crafting exceptional candidate experiences
Gain insights into Textio's behind-the-scenes approach, shaping the way we craft memorable journeys for potential candidates.
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.
Recruiting
Removing degree requirements to shift to skills-based job descriptions
Explore how skills-based hiring transforms talent acquisition and why it's time to rethink unnecessary degree requirements in job descriptions.
Recruiting
Creating a strong employer profile
Your employer profile should be a magnet to draw talent in. As an employer, you’re more than just a provider of jobs.
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.
Recruiting
Attract talent with a growth mindset
Growth mindset language is more likely to attract talent inclusively
Recruiting
5 policies that attract, engage, and retain top talent
In the “new normal” with increasingly fierce competition for talent, companies must demonstrate their long-term commitment to people-first policies to attract and retain top talent.
Inclusion
What to know about the 2022 talent landscape
Candidates are leading with values and looking for empathetic employers
Inclusion
Announcing the 2022 Textio Awards winners
Congratulations to these organizations for earning the 2022 Textio Leadership Award!
Recruiting
Textio language insights now available in iCIMS
Empower your team with augmented writing directly in your ATS
Inclusion
500 reasons to get certified in Inclusive Recruiting
Textio U students share their motivations for getting certified
Employees
Announcing Textio U, our new hub for continuous learning
Earn your certification in inclusive recruiting with our first online course!
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
Recruiting
Repeating yourself: How to fix the broken-record job post
Tips to reduce redundancy when writing job descriptions
Employer Branding
How a leading biotech company transformed its employer brand language
Amgen showcases their collaborative employee experience with Textio
Employer Branding
5 things talent acquisition and recruiting teams can do when hiring is slow
Tackle these projects today, to set your team and company up for success tomorrow
Employer Branding
Empathetic recruiting: how to be considerate (but still compelling)
Reaching out with compassion—and getting a response
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
Employer Branding
Recruit like a marketer: Getting creative to beat the competition [Webinar]
Hear from talent acquisition executives at Textio and Glassdoor on how to leverage marketing strategies to recruit top talent
Recruiting
Words give power to the people
How Zillow Group showcases its company culture through candidate communication
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
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
Hiring
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
Recruiting
Those weird, wonderful recruiting emails
Our employees share some of the unsolicited emails they get from recruiters who want to hire them away
Entrepreneurship
Finding a common language
For Johnson & Johnson’s recruiters and hiring managers, communication is key to making the best hires
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
Throw out your recruiting templates: a recorded webinar
Practical advice on how to build a recruitment marketing strategy
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
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
Recruiting
Textio’s visual editor just got more visual
New orange underlines show the data behind your adjectives
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
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
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
Machine Learning
The ebb and flow of structure and content
Latest hiring data from Textio’s predictive engine shows improved performance on words in your job posts
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
Diversity
Small startup competes big for talent
Red-hot tech startup Clarifai rolls out Textio to their entire team to recruit the best humans in machine learning
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
HR
The Voice: Don’t write like Human Resources, write like a human being.
Tips for building a great employer brand through job posts
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
Recruiting
New today: Four features to streamline your writing
Textio’s July Update is packed with improvements
Diversity
Watch your (gender) tone
How Textio reveals the unconscious bias that’s lurking in your job postings
Jobs
Is it time to change up your career?
These three people took a risk and found the shoe that fits
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?
Diversity
Do this for Pride Month: turn your “EEO statement” into an inclusion promise
Here are three equal employment opportunity additions that go beyond legalese to really mean business
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
Recruiting
Want to join a hyper-growth company?
Three people share how they built skillsets that impress
Recruiting
Textio adds new guidance for accounting, executive, hospitality, manufacturing and sales roles
When it comes to hiring language, context is everything
Hiring
Humans are still the best writers
In augmented writing, unique voices are the most important part of the learning loop
HR
Come meet Textio in Bellevue, San Francisco & Boston!
In June Textio will be at Recruiter Nation Live, Cloud Tech Summit, HR Tech World San Francisco & HCI Strategic Acquisition Conference
HR
Want to attract top talent? Avoid “orange phrases” in your job description
Orange highlights in Textio indicate language patterns that statistically deter qualified people from applying to your job
Diversity
Data-driven to perfection
Now Textio gives you more data behind the platform’s guidance to improve the performance of your job listing
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?
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