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How to Write Job Descriptions to Attract High Performers and Diverse Talent

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Used strategically, a job description can be much more than a list of duties and qualifications. With some small but significant changes to your template, you can use job descriptions to attract higher quality and more diverse applicants. So, what does this mean for your job descriptions? Procurement.

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Are You Driving Away Qualified Candidates with Unconscious Gender Discrimination in Your Job Descriptions?

Newton Software

Gender Discrimination in Job Descriptions Job descriptions can be sexist… give me a break, right? We balked at (and were even somewhat offended by) the first couple of articles we came across that claimed women were deterred from applying to jobs because of “masculine” job descriptions.

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Hiring with Diversity in Your Company

Newton Software

What is Diversity Recruitment? Hiring for diversity is the process of removing unconscious bias from the recruitment process, resulting in a candidate pool that possesses a wider variety of skill sets, educational backgrounds, and experiences. Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace. How to Hire Diversely.

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Famous People with Autism [150+ Athletes, Actors, Musicians & More!]

Ongig

Sir Isaac Newton – Mathematician, Astronomer, & Physicist (source: NewScientist ). Ongig is on a mission to eliminate boring and biased job descriptions. As part of this, we try to share best practices on all aspects of diversity. Alan Turing – Mathematician (source: Wikipedia ). Why I wrote this?

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How a Teenager's Viral Post Points to a Huge Hiring Opportunity

Linkedin Talent Blog

Rewrite job descriptions to make them more inclusive. When you’re writing a job description, think about what skills an employee really needs to perform the role effectively. Trim your job descriptions wherever possible to include only those skills that are essential to the position.

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Hiring for a Cultural Fit in the Workplace

Newton Software

Cultural fit has become more popular recently as companies have started looking for candidates who not only perfectly match the job description, but who also fit the company culture as a whole. Studies have shown that having a diverse background of people on your team increases both innovation and productivity by an alarming 35%.

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Top Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS Software) in 2020

Ongig

We take a very simple approach: we review the top employers we’re already talking to (Ongig provides job description software solutions to these same types of companies) and record which ATS they are using. 24 Paycor (formerly Newton Software) 0.38%. OneSource Vital (from Newton Software). 1 Workday 21.92%.