What Are Job Postings (and Why Most of Them Are Bad)
Job postings are the moment you invite someone in. In many hiring processes, the job posting ends up being...
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8 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Job Description Spreadsheet
Spreadsheets are the duct tape of recruiting, great at first, but messy fast. If your job description spreadsheet has...
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...
Can I Use Notion to Manage Job Descriptions?
You can organize JDs in Notion…until you can’t. We’ve talked to talent teams who manage hundreds of job descriptions....
Why Your Job Descriptions Look So Outdated in the Neogov ATS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...
Best Practices for Optimizing Your Job Listings for Search Engines in 2025
If your listings aren’t showing up in Google for Jobs or getting visibility on job boards, you’re missing out...
FLSA Job Description Requirements Made Easy: One Client’s Smart System
Most people in talent acquisition don’t wake up thinking about FLSA classifications. But mislabeling a role as exempt or...
Kentucky Employment Background Check Laws for Job Postings: What TA Teams Need to Know
Kentucky law requires background checks for many types of employment. That means if you’re posting jobs in Kentucky, you’ve...
Los Angeles Job Postings: Legal Requirements and How to Automate Compliance
Did you know? In some parts of Los Angeles, it’s actually illegal to post a job ad without stating...
What Makes a Great Job Description Management System? Start with Permissions
Have you ever tried collaborating on job descriptions and ended up in a permissions nightmare? Yeah, we’ve been there...
What Should You Standardize in Job Postings? What Should Be Flexible?
Have you ever seen a job post that felt like it was written by three different people? You probably...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....