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How to craft a sincere equal opportunity employer statement
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12 practical diversity and inclusion activities you can start today
Many DEI activities for the workplace require a lot of time and effort....
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Measuring DEI success: 5 places to look for progress
When measuring DEI success, representation isn’t the only thing that...
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How Shaw Communications shares its inclusive culture with candidates
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Shaw!
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How Checkout.com’s inclusive language work inspires real behavioral change
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Checkout.com!
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How Uncommon Goods brings DEIB into their workplace, marketplace, and community
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Uncommon Goods!
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Does pay transparency bring inclusion? The data says yes
Early data from Colorado says showing pay bands increases appeal of a job...
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Showing candidates you value inclusion, in all the places they’re looking
Textio guidance is now available in LinkedIn posts and comments
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A more holistic approach to inclusion and belonging
A stronger talent attraction system means cultivating belonging
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The power of language and its role in inclusion
How your words can amplify a virtuous cycle of belonging
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Be mindful of sports jargon in your talent content
That phrase may not be “nothing but net”
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A conversation with Denise Branch, Forbes-featured anti-racism educator
Insights on how to truly effect change with anti-racism work
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Avoiding harmful language in hiring content
Textio now provides expanded guidance for offensive phrases, developed from...
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Hiring language points to unequal economic recovery
Inclusive language in hiring content is suddenly dropping after years of...
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Calling out microaggressions: one leader’s experience sharing her “Blaxhaustion™”
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5 Slack best practices for inclusive companies
Foster a culture of belonging through your internal communications
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4 overlooked types of bias in business writing
How implicit bias shows up in (and upends) everyday work writing
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It starts with the message you’re sending
How the County of Los Angeles is changing its candidate pipeline with...
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When words become actions: diversity pledges vs. cultural truths
CEOs are pledging to do better on diversity, but the real-world impact of...
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Textio CEO takes home the Crosscut Courage in Technology Award
Kieran Snyder honored for her work to transform the culture of the tech...
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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...
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Why sharing is critical to job posts that attract the most qualified candidates
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How to fight diversity fatigue: a recorded webinar
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How Cisco is finding 18% more qualified candidates and filling roles a week faster
Augmented writing joins Cisco’s hiring technology suite
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NVIDIA chalks up major hiring gains to augmented writing technology
New hiring metrics show exactly how Textio is helping NVIDIA innovate to...
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Secret language of your job posts
Continuing the conversation around language and company culture
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How Johnson & Johnson is adding 90,000 more women to their hiring pipeline
Using data science to reinvent the recruiting process at J&J
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‘Fire your headhunter’: How Orrick found the highest quality candidates without the fees
How Orrick connected their hiring managers back into the writing process
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How Atlassian went from 10% female technical graduates to 57% in two years
Diversity as a Science
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How Evernote attracts more qualified and diverse applicants
An analysis of hiring performance before and after Textio
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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
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How the science behind Textio helped The Co-Op reach 17% more qualified candidates
Writing more efficiently, and with better results
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How Broadridge doubled qualified applicants
Twice as many qualified people apply to Broadridge job postings that have a...
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5 things to do this week at HR Tech Conference
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Small startup competes big for talent
Red-hot tech startup Clarifai rolls out Textio to their entire team to...
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Watch your (gender) tone
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Augmentation, not automation, is the future of hiring tech
Reporting from the HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition 2017 conference
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Which hiring metrics truly matter?
Only the metrics that you’re willing to be accountable to
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Do this for Pride Month: turn your “EEO statement” into an inclusion promise
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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...
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Data-driven to perfection
Now Textio gives you more data behind the platform’s guidance to improve...
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What is the Textio Score? Taking the subjectivity out of writing job descriptions
Your Textio Score tells you how fast your job will fill
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The right hiring “environment”
Sierra Club leads the pack in hiring for environmental non-profits
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How big law firms score talent
Latham & Watkins is over 10 points ahead of its legal competition in...
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Only two of ten UK grocery chains have gender-neutral job posts
Most UK supermarket job listings will statistically attract more men than...
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Textio takes top prize at HR Tech World!
Making a big splash across the pond at London's premiere tech talent...
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The secret to how beauty brands are going gender neutral
The secret to how beauty brands are going gender neutral. Four of the five...
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How to write your best job post ever: Part 5
Write your job listings with real-time data to predict how applicants will...
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AI + HR & SxSW
AI + HR & SxSW. How artificial intelligence can help human resource...
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Textio makes the shortlist for two big HR tech awards
Textio makes the shortlist for two big HR tech awards. London’s disruptHR...
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How to write your best job post ever: Part 4
Convince the best candidates to apply with language that’s performing well...
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How to write your best job post ever: Part 3
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Lego’s gender tone in job posts might not be what you expect
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How to write your best job post ever: Part 1
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HR buzzword bingo
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Here’s how to hire a former President
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The equal opportunity legacy of MLK
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How hiring language reinforces “pink collar” jobs
The way we write about healthcare jobs is leading to a shortage of labor in...
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Equal opportunity jobs still hire faster
Job posts that use non-discrimination language continued to make gains in...
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Shopping for the best talent
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Still looking for that “rock star” candidate?
Still looking for that “rock star” candidate? Here are 5 more terms that...
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To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more
To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more. Tech job posts with language about...
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Who needs Pokémon when you can catch Textímon?
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Language in your job post predicts the gender of your hire
Jobs where a man was hired use nearly twice as many masculine-tone phrases...
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