Many hiring teams treat social media like a copy-paste dumping ground.  But job descriptions written for your website or applicant tracking system (ATS) rarely perform well on platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, or TikTok. (The format is different. The audience is different. And the attention span varies on each one.) If you’re sharing job content without… Read more »

Spreadsheets are the duct tape of recruiting, great at first, but messy fast. If your job description spreadsheet has become a nightmare, you’re not alone. Here are 8 signs it’s officially time to upgrade to a specialized job description software. 1. Version Control Confusion You and your team members have probably found yourselves in situations… Read more »

You can organize JDs in Notion…until you can’t. We’ve talked to talent teams who manage hundreds of job descriptions. Some of them started with a Notion job description template. It seemed simple, easy, and free. And for a while, it worked. But then the version control issues started. Someone edited the template directly instead of… Read more »

Do job descriptions in your Neogov applicant tracking system look like Word docs from 1999? You’re not alone. Public sector teams across the country are dealing with the same thing, job ads that are technically correct, but visually and structurally stuck in the past. Even when the content is good, the format kills candidate interest… Read more »

Most people in talent acquisition don’t wake up thinking about FLSA classifications. But mislabeling a role as exempt or non-exempt? That can lead to lawsuits, fines, and frustrated employees. That’s why one of our clients added a custom “FLSA” column to their job description library. It’s been a game-changer for compliance and organization. What Are… Read more »

We spend hours obsessing over job titles, company blurbs, and benefits copy. But what if the real deal-breaker lives inside your job description requirements? I’m talking about that long list of bullet points. The ones that say things like “must have 5+ years of experience” or “proficient in Excel.” The ones we copy-paste from older… Read more »

Some job descriptions read like a legal contract. Others read like a nap. But there’s one little section that can wake them up instantly, the “A Day in the Life” job description section. Add it, and you can turn 25 bullet points of snooze into a mental movie that hooks the right candidates. This idea… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Job description version control can be the difference between a smooth JD update process and getting frustrated finding the final version. Do you find yourself asking your job description writing team different questions, such as, “Why isn’t the EEO statement included in the JD?”, “Where’s our organization definition?”, and “Where’s the recent JD version?” If… Read more »

Your biggest hiring bottleneck might be hiding in plain sight, not in your applicant tracking system or interview process, but in your company’s shared drive. That’s where the “Lazy JD” lives. We’re not talking about lazy people. We’re talking about lazy documents—job descriptions that haven’t been updated in years, live in dusty folders, and have… Read more »