One of the biggest healthcare companies in the U.S. had a problem: every time they pasted a job description into Taleo, the formatting blew up. Bullet points vanished. Fonts changed. Spacing went sideways. It was a hot mess. If you’ve ever tried copying a Word doc or Google Doc into Taleo, you probably know this… Read more »
Mini Experiments: What If Your Job Description Requirements Are the Problem?
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 »
10 Surprising Hidden Costs of Not Having a Centralized Job Description Library
Did you know that your employees’ low productivity and disengagement might be because of a poor job description you wrote? Having a centralized job description library is not optional. Most companies don’t take job descriptions seriously. They see JDs as a “nice to have”. And this is why you find job descriptions scattered everywhere across… Read more »
7 HR Pros Share Top Job Description Management Struggles (And We Found Solutions)
Uploaded a hiring post and either got crickets or a sea of irrelevant applications. Sounds familiar? Every hiring manager has struggled with their mailbox from time to time. In fact, 42% of employers had to revise a job description after posting it because they were receiving too many unqualified candidates. Job descriptions are changing. It’s… Read more »
Mini Experiments: Testing Salary Ranges on Job Postings
Here’s a confession: I don’t have a current Ongig client who’s run this experiment yet (that we officially know of). But, I think it could be a game-changer for getting better candidates, not just more of them. We all know salary transparency is having its moment. Laws in California, Colorado, New York, Washington (and counting)… Read more »
How to Write “A Day in the Life” Job Description That Attracts Better Candidates
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 »
How to Streamline HR Paperwork from Job Descriptions to Onboarding
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 »
