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4 Tips To Eliminate Job Description Gender Bias and Improve Your Hiring

Vervoe

Yet, an organization cannot achieve diversity if its job descriptions don’t set them up for success. Language significantly impacts whether or not a job seeker identifies with a role, which influences whether or not they apply — particularly for female job seekers. Gender-biased vs. gender-neutral job descriptions.

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7 Controversial Stories About Job Descriptions [With Key Learnings]

Ongig

Job descriptions are in the news lately. I went back a few years to find stories related to controversial job postings. New Jersey Schools Authority Made Up Job Descriptions for People it Already Hired. Source: Image from USA Today Network NorthJersey.com. You should filter all job descriptions for bias.

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The 10 Main Sections of a Job Description

Ongig

What are the main sections of a job description? 69% of candidates believe 8 or more role responsibilities (the day-to-day tasks of the role) in a job ad would serve as a deterrent to applying. source: Seek Survey of 4,800 Workers, 2019 ). “Required Skills” is one of the most-used job description sections.

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5 Tips on Writing Great Job Descriptions

Glassdoor for Employers

Is it any wonder they’re harder and harder for talent pros to source and engage? If your organization has open positions, your job descriptions (and job titles) need to be on point, easy to digest and sell not only your open positions but your organization and employer brand, too. What job seekers consider.

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30 industry insights for hiring developers

Devskiller

of developers are currently employed but only 33.04% love their job. Source: Stack Overflow Global Developer Hiring Landscape 2016. software engineers are completely satisfied with their job. Source: Stack Overflow Global Developer Hiring Landscape 2017. Source: Stack Overflow Global Developer Hiring Landscape 2017.

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The 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make you a Better Recruiter…

Social Talent

Lack of satisfaction with applications is seeing a rise in gamification — recent research suggests that by the end of 2014 more than 70% of the world’s largest companies will have at least one gamified applications. Great hiring is so much more than just matching candidates with job descriptions. Communicate better. The problem?

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The Worst Christmas Jobs in History

Social Talent

Even more lovely was the fact that there was a slave whose ‘job description’ it was to crawl around on all fours under the dining couches and mop all this mess up. The second difficulty was that job of a Faggotor was extremely the laborious. Instead they usually had bowls lying around especially for the purpose!

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