I’ll admit: when I first saw the PayScale + Datapeople acquisition, I thought, “wow, another acquisition.” Digging into the “why” reveals a critical reality: that writing job postings wrong can put you on the hook for massive fines. What States Are Demanding Salary Transparency (or Paying for It) More and more states (California, New York,… Read more »
Search Results for: first time anal
Job Description Optimization: How a Small TA Team Revamped 4,000+ Job Postings
One person. Under 10 team members. More than 4,300 live job descriptions to fix. If that sounds impossible, you’re not alone. But one Sr. Talent Program Advisor at a major healthcare organization pulled it off (with help from Ongig). Meet the Team This wasn’t a massive team of writers or a marketing army. The core… Read more »
Your JD Management System is Only as Good as Your Career Site
Imagine writing the perfect job description. Inclusive. Optimized. Tailored for the right audience. Then you post it…and the ideal candidate bounces. Your career site takes forever to load, doesn’t work on mobile, and looks like it was built in 2009. All that work you did with your JD tool? Wasted. The Problem: Most JD Software… Read more »
How I Used Mitchs.ai to Write a Job Advert (And What Happened Next)
It started with a LinkedIn connection. Mitch Sullivan and I connected, and not long after, I spotted his new tool: Mitchs.ai. A job advert generator? You bet I was going to test it. I love trying new tools in the job description and job advert space, especially with all the AI buzz flying around. If… Read more »
How to Optimize Job Descriptions for Social Media Success
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 »
Why Your Job Posting Might Not Be OFCCP Compliant (and How to Fix It)
I’ve read 1,000s of bad job postings. But this one stopped me cold: “We don’t believe in work-life balance; this job is your life.” If your gut says “yikes,” you’re not alone. That line (and plenty of others like it) is exactly why the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) exists. And it’s also… Read more »
How to Get Busy Recruiters to Actually Use Your Job Posting Templates
How busy are recruiters? They’re not lazy. They’re drowning. I’ve heard this exact phrase from more than one recruiter: “I don’t have time to learn something new right now. I just need to get this job posted.” It came up again in a recent client call with a TA leader we’ve worked with for a… Read more »
Cringeworthy Job Postings: What’s Still Showing Up in 2025 (and How to Fix It)
I’ve read some job postings that gave me the “ick”. Like, actual secondhand embarrassment. That’s the feeling we’re talking about today. I’ve seen some cringeworthy job postings that sound like a middle schooler trying to impress their cool cousin. Others just haven’t evolved since 1998. And the worst part? Candidates notice. They roll their eyes,… Read more »
Why Your Job Descriptions Look So Outdated in the Neogov ATS
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 »
Pasting into Taleo Wrecked Their Job Description Formatting (Here’s How We Fixed)
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
