HR departments are some of the hardest-working and most time-stretched. After all, we rely on them to hire, onboard, and manage people at all levels of a business. Plus, streamline HR paperwork! With that, there are tons of challenges that HR professionals face with regard to paperwork. Whether it’s managing and tracking job descriptions, keeping… Read more »
How We Helped a Global Team Clean Up Job Posting Templates (in under 6 months)
I’ve seen it too many times, job postings that are all over the place. Some are bloated with buzzwords. Others are missing key info. It’s no wonder candidates get confused. One of the global professional services teams we partnered with told us the same thing. So, we kicked off a pilot with them. In less… Read more »
What Went Down on The HR Morning Show Ep. 55: Acquisitions, Job Descriptions, and Red Shoes
On August 5, 2025, I had the pleasure of joining the HR Morning Show crew—Danielle Farage, Joel Lalgee, and Serge Boudreau—for their 55th episode. If you missed it, you can listen to the full episode on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I also embedded it here: Below is a full recap of the… Read more »
Job Specification vs. Job Description: What’s the Real Difference?
I used to think a job specification and a job description were basically the same thing. A few buzzwords here, a few bullet points there, done. But then one of our clients told me about a hiring manager who handed them a “job spec” that looked more like a novel, and I realized I needed… Read more »
Retention Starts at Recruitment: How to Keep New Hires Engaged from Day One
Retention doesn’t begin on a new hire’s first day — it starts the minute they see your job posting. If your onboarding experience is “meh,” don’t be shocked when people leave early. I’ve seen it again and again: the companies that get it right aren’t just lucky — they’re intentional. They build systems that treat… Read more »
Job Description Translation: What Global TA Teams Need to Know
Managing job descriptions in multiple languages sounds easy until you’re in it. One edit in English and suddenly you’re juggling five different versions across five time zones. That’s the pain global TA teams keep telling me about. Everyone wants job description software that works in multiple languages — inside the platform. Spoiler: Ongig doesn’t do… Read more »
Why Every HR Team Deserves a Real Job Description Repository
I used to spend more time hunting for job descriptions than actually working on them. Sound familiar? One of our customers told me they had 400 job descriptions buried in old emails, Google Docs, and their ATS. Another had multiple versions of the same JD, slightly different titles, completely different content. It was a mess…. Read more »
Fix Your Bad Job Descriptions, Fix Your Hiring Funnel
Every time I read a job description, I play a little game. It’s called: “What’s actually true here?” Spoiler alert: I usually lose. That’s why Andrew Wood’s LinkedIn post hit home. He called job descriptions the “biggest lie in hiring.” And yep, I’m nodding along. Here’s his full post: We’ve all seen it. Bullet points… Read more »
Hiring for AI? These Are the Job Titles You Need to Know
It used to be that “AI” in a job title felt like science fiction. Now it’s hearing about “AI job titles” is just a normal Tuesday. If you’re in talent acquisition, you’re probably starting to see job reqs float across your desk with unfamiliar titles like Prompt Engineer, LLM Architect, and Responsible AI Lead. These… Read more »
Job Description Automation Isn’t Optional Anymore (I asked TA Teams)
I used to hear this all the time from TA teams: “We spend hours writing job descriptions, and most of them still don’t hit the mark.” That pain is real, and totally fixable. We built Ongig to change that. To take job descriptions off autopilot and give recruiters and hiring managers a better way to… Read more »
I Tested 4 AI Job Description Rewriters in the GPT Store (and Here’s What I Found)
One of my most used prompts when working with AI is “rewrite this…” and I know I’m not alone. It’s a simple, powerful prompt (that works way better when you provide more context like tone, length, style, and the target audience). Back in February 2025, my fellow Ongig writer and general JD superstar, Heather Fenty, wrote this blog testing… Read more »
Drowning in Resumes? Here’s Why Qualified Candidates Matter More Than Ever
The hiring landscape has flipped. A few years ago, recruiting teams begged for more applicants to fill open roles. Today, they’re drowning in applications – many of them auto-generated or mass-produced using AI. Faced with this flood, hiring teams have shifted from a “more is better” mindset to a “quality over quantity” mandate. In short,… Read more »
How Global Talent Teams Standardized Job Descriptions (Without Slowing Down Hiring)
When you support hiring across countries and time zones, the idea of “standardized job descriptions” often feels like a recipe for delays. Our clients told us they pictured long legal reviews, messy translations, and version-control chaos. Many had been burned before. But working with our team at Ongig, they discovered something different: standardizing their JDs… Read more »
How to Fix Bad Job Descriptions: Red Flags, Real Edits, and Quick Wins
If you had just five minutes to fix bad job descriptions before they went live, what would you change first? That’s the question Heather Fenty posed to job content strategist Sarah Akida in a recent episode of The JD Fix. The pair reviewed a real-world JD that was riddled with red flags. Think biased language,… Read more »
Wasp Stings & Real Talk: What RecFest UK 2025 Taught Me
It’s been almost a week since RecFest UK wrapped, and I’m still buzzing—literally and figuratively. My arm? Still swollen from the wasp attack before my final session (shout-out to whoever saw me frantically power-walking toward the gates…I swear I’m usually cooler than that). But more importantly, I left Knebworth Park with a full heart, a… Read more »
