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7 Impactful Ways to Boost Workforce Hiring with AI

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Source A recent finding by IT consultancy firm Tenth Revolution revealed that AI remains vital in hiring.  Yet, AI success is no longer as simple as aiming straight for the most impressive tech solution available. TA teams are now facing a deeper, more human-centric quandary that challenges the very concept of a workforce. We’ll answer… Read more »

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Ongig’s Been Using AI in Hiring Before ChatGPT (and Why It Still Matters)

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Most people think AI in hiring and recruiting started with ChatGPT. It didn’t. Long before prompts and instant rewrites, we were sitting in a conference room at Google talking about APIs, structured job data, and hiring workflows. In 2023, AI in hiring and recruiting exploded into the mainstream. Suddenly, every HR tech company had a… Read more »

Funny Job Titles: 100+ Creative Titles by Department (2026 Update)

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Funny job titles are everywhere these days — from Chief Happiness Officer to Wizard of Light Bulb Moments. I’ve rounded up 100+ creative and funny job titles by department below, pulled from real companies, LinkedIn, and job boards. In today’s competitive job market, companies are finding unique ways to stand out by creating imaginative job… Read more »

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Call Center Job Titles (with Descriptions) in 2026

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Quick Summary Call center job titles run from entry-level roles like Call Center Agent up to executive titles like Chief Customer Officer. Most companies use a six-level hierarchy: leadership, VP, director, manager, individual contributor, and entry-level. Below you’ll find the top 20 titles candidates search for, the top 10 titles employers request most, and real… Read more »

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7 Signs Your Job Description Approval Process Needs a Makeover 

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Does this sound familiar? It takes your team longer to approve a JD than to fill the job. You’re also unable to understand why your JD approval gets stuck. And your team isn’t always sure who’s supposed to approve what. To sum this up, these issues indicate that your job description approval process is a… Read more »

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The Hiring Metrics That Actually Predict Who Stays

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Time to fill used to be the only number that mattered on a recruiting dashboard. It’s easy to calculate, easy to explain to a VP who doesn’t have twenty minutes, and it moves in a direction everyone understands: down is good.  But somewhere in the last few years, talent teams stopped being satisfied with speed… Read more »

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10 Free Fixes to Remove Gender Bias from your Job Postings (2026)

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Quick Summary: Job Description Gender Bias in 2026 Job description gender bias usually comes down to a handful of repeat offenders. Ongig’s Text Analyzer tracked every masculine-coded word swap made between January 1 and July 13, 2026. The most-replaced word was “strong” (42 swaps), followed by “lead” (26) and “independently” (13). Below, we break down… Read more »

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The Top 10 Masculine Biased Words in Job Descriptions (2026)

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Quick Summary Ongig analyzed job posting data from January 1 to July 13, 2026. “Strong,” “lead,” and “independently” are the most common masculine biased words in job descriptions. Other frequent offenders include “strengthen,” “competitive,” “leaders,” “analyze,” “champion,” “analysis,” and “independent.” Replacing these with gender-neutral alternatives can help increase female application rates. How We Identified These… Read more »

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Why Great Candidates Ignore Job Descriptions and What Leading Employers Do Differently

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There’s a moment in almost every hiring cycle where the numbers stop making sense. The posting went up. Traffic looks fine. Applications are coming in. And yet the people you actually wanted, the ones who’d change the shape of the team, never show up in the pipeline. Most job descriptions are written for the company… Read more »

Top 3 Feminine-Biased Words Used in Job Descriptions (2026 Update)

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Quick Summary We used to rank feminine-biased words by how often they showed up in random job postings. This year, though, we tried something different instead: we looked at the words our own clients actually swapped out inside Text Analyzer, from January to mid-July 2026. The clear winner is the “collaborate” family (collaboration, collaborate, collaborative,… Read more »

How to Balance AI and Human Recruitment

How to Balance AI and Human Recruitment in 2026?

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It’s time to unpack a hot topic lingering on the minds of employers and recruiters: “How can our company balance AI and human recruitment?” It’s a critical TA question that deserves practical answers! Especially since automated recruitment becomes increasingly prevalent. In fact, 35% to 45% of companies have already adopted AI in their core hiring… Read more »

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What High-Performing Talent Teams Do Differently to Attract Hard-to-Find Candidates

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Some roles just don’t fill. You post, you refresh the ATS, you widen the salary band, and the pipeline stays thin.  Meanwhile, another team down the street, or across the internet, closes the same role in six weeks with someone better than anyone you’ve seen.  What are they doing differently? Teams that consistently land scarce… Read more »

Diversity Titles: Top 20 DEI Job Titles for 2026

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Which diversity titles work best for you and your team? My team and I looked at the best practices at leading companies as well as the most popular diversity titles requested on Google (via ahrefs and Google’s Keyword Tool). So, this diversity title article is the latest chapter in Ongig’s Job Titles: The Definitive Guide…. Read more »

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Why Job Descriptions Need Track Changes (Not Just Version History)

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Think about the last important document you worked on. Chances are it lived in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or another tool where everyone could suggest edits, leave comments, and track every change. So why are job descriptions—one of the most collaborative documents in HR—still being passed around as Word files, email attachments, and competing versions?… Read more »

AI Won't Replace Recruiters. But It Should Replace This Work.

AI Won’t Replace Recruiters. But It Should Replace This Work.

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Every recruiting team has work they hate doing. The funny thing is most teams have been doing it so long they stopped questioning whether it needs to exist at all. That’s exactly where AI gets interesting—not by replacing people, but by replacing busywork. For the past year, most conversations around AI in HR have focused… Read more »