Job description best practices based on hiring data
Dec 09, 2016
Throughout this week, we’ve been sharing words and phrases that predict a job listing will fill faster (or slower) than the industry average. The language you use matters!
The language that predicts a successful job post also indicates what employees are looking for — recruiters can use this as a clue.
For legal jobs, for example, Textio’s data shows that “small team” was most likely to predict a successful listing. On average, posts that contained this phrase filled 67% faster than the industry norm.
Here’s a list of some of the top winners and losers for legal jobs, by the average time it took to fill the role versus the industry average:
Interested in learning more about how language changes depending on who you’re hiring? Read about our findings on software engineers, copy editors, teachers, and cooks.
