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 »