Posts Tagged:Job Titles

The Top 20 Social Media Job Titles [by Popularity]

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What are the optimal social media job titles? I asked my team to help me analyze which social media titles work best. In this mini-report (the latest chapter in Ongig’s Job Titles: The Definitive Guide, you’ll find guidance on: Social Media Hierarchy — An org chart of where social media position titles fit. The 20 Most… Read more »

Top 20 Finance Job Titles

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Which finance job titles work best? I asked my team to help me analyze finance titles that both employers and candidates say are the most important. This Finance job title article is the latest chapter in Ongig’s Job Titles: The Definitive Guide. We provide some best practices on finance job titles such as Finance Job Titles… Read more »

The Top 20 Accounting Job Titles You Should Know

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What are the optimal accounting job titles? I asked my team to help me analyze which accounting titles work best. So, in this mini-report (the latest chapter in Ongig’s Job Titles: The Definitive Guide, you’ll find guidance on: Accounting Job Titles Hierarchy — The standard for accounting department positions Most Searched-For Accounting Titles — A… Read more »

The Top 40 Job Titles in Human Resources

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Human Resources might have the most complicated set of job titles of any department. In this article, I share 4 pieces of research I hope will assist you in using the most effective HR job titles: HR Job Titles Hierarchy — An pyramid of the basic org chart  of HR teams Examples of the job… Read more »

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The 25 Best Marketing Job Titles [Ranked by Search Volume]

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What are the best marketing job titles to attract talent? If you want more traffic to your job postings, one way to answer that is to see which marketing titles candidates search for. Below are the top 25 marketing job titles based on the number of searches they receive on Google. For search query data,… Read more »

The Top 35 IT Job Titles [Ranked by Search Volume]

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What names should you use for your IT job titles? It starts with using the same language as candidates. Below is a list of IT job titles ranked by the number of times people (most likely candidates!) Google-searched the title name and the word “jobs”. Our source is the excellent SEO resource ahrefs. Note: This… Read more »

The Top 50 Software Job Titles [Ranked by What Candidates Search For]

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The software job titles you use in recruiting makes a huge difference. Did you know that candidates search for “Android Developer” 120 times as often as “Android Engineer”? A new developer is 55 times more likely to search for “Entry Level Software Developer” than “Software Developer Intern”. I compiled a list (below) of the top… Read more »

How Does Jeff Bezos Score Writing His First Amazon Job Ad?

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Early Amazon employee Glenn Fleishman told Internet History Podcast that Amazon had a hard time hiring developers in its early days. We decided to run Amazon’s first known job posting (from August 22, 1994) through Ongig’s Text Analyzer software to see how his job description text scores using today’s best technology. Ongig’s Text Analyzer is… Read more »

6 Steps for Creating the Best Job Postings (with Template)

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The best job postings are structured, informative and content-rich. Here’s a job posting template/checklist to best attract, engage and convert candidates: Checklist for Creating the Best Job Postings Feature Video or Image Your hero media (video/image) should be “above the fold” (like in a magazine or newspaper article). This helps your job posting to get… Read more »

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5 Things to Avoid in Your Job Titles

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A job title is the first part of a job ad that a candidate sees. Its purpose is critical: to get the candidate to click through to read the entire job ad. Below are some common mistakes to avoid in your job titles: Note: This article is part of our ongoing series on job titles called: Job Titles: The… Read more »

How Long Should a Job Title Be?

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I’m sometimes asked how long a job description title should be. Below are a few opinions from others I trust. Note: This article is part of our ongoing series called Job Titles: The Definitive Guide.  1 to 3 Words Job titles with 1 to 3 words had an apply rate twice as high as those with… Read more »

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How to Write a Job Description Like an Ad Copywriter

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You have to do better than a “copy-and-paste” of an old job description to write a job description that stands out and engages the best talent. Many of you still use job descriptions written by someone with little to no marketing skills. Or perhaps copy-and-paste the JD from an unknown source. Let me give you… Read more »