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Data
Data
From feedback to retention: empowering employees with actionable insights
Diversity
Hiring insights reveal progress in DEI
New hiring insights reveal DEI progress continues with diversity language on the rise in job postings overall.
Hiring
“I came across your profile on LinkedIn”
Learn how to find candidates on LinkedIn by avoiding bad messaging and optimizing your outreach for a response.
Ohio
The business culture Battle of Ohio
Learn the most common language used by the biggest employers in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and which phrases drive more qualified applicants.
Machine Learning
What does it mean to be “Powered by Textio”?
Textio’s data-powered language guidance is unmatched in quality, accuracy, and business impact in recruiting and performance management.
Language
What a president sounds like: Dominance vs. democracy
Comparing the inauguration speeches of Biden and Trump
Language
What do you learn by measuring language?
Cultural signals that only language data can reveal
Language
Understanding pandemic work and the limits of war language
Our media and politicians rely on war metaphors, but data reveals more effective, supportive language
Recruiting
Words give power to the people
How Zillow Group showcases its company culture through candidate communication
Diversity
When words become actions: diversity pledges vs. cultural truths
CEOs are pledging to do better on diversity, but the real-world impact of your company's values are felt through the words you use every single day doing business
Language
The Rise of “Slam” Journalism
Usage of violent verbs in news headlines has skyrocketed since the 2016 presidential election
Hiring
You have arrived… are we there yet?
The necessity of learning loops for platforms built on dynamic data
Hiring
Augmented writing is the new analytics
Why the next wave in productivity software will come from knowing how you sound
Machine Learning
What do people mean when they say AI?
Prediction matters more than purpose when it comes to AI
Entrepreneurship
It's not just the words you choose, but how you use them
What the length of your recruiting email says to job candidates about your company culture and your industry
Entrepreneurship
Finding a common language
For Johnson & Johnson’s recruiters and hiring managers, communication is key to making the best hires
Employer Branding
Hiring well, when so few are looking
Four proven strategies to help you hire the best people during the worst talent crunch
HR
Textio takes home Best AI Product for HR award and lands at #28 on Disrupt 100
Honors roll in from both CogX and Disrupt 100
Hiring
Why Evergreen roles screw up your hiring data, and what to do about it
How to track jobs that are always open
Hiring
Intuition vs. data: why your beliefs often fail you
The power of the data behind augmented writing
Hiring
Show me the data
Now Textio gives you a look at the numbers behind augmented writing, with every document you write
Hiring
Don’t rely on guesswork for recruiting
Drawing the line between speculation and fact with accurate measurement
Hiring
Announcing Textio Hire
Boost engagement with both active and passive job candidates using augmented writing
Hiring
Get plugged in
The Textio browser extension brings augmented writing into your recruiting email
Diversity
Can the words you use change the people you work with?
Separating correlation and causation in people analytics
Startup
Textio Named “Most Innovative Company” by Fast Company
Recognition as #5 in the Data Science category
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Recruiting
Textio’s visual editor just got more visual
New orange underlines show the data behind your adjectives
Diversity
How Johnson & Johnson is adding 90,000 more women to their hiring pipeline
Using data science to reinvent the recruiting process at J&J
Hiring
Top 5 Textio stories of 2017
From augmented writing to company culture, here are Textio’s most read stories of 2017
Hiring
Looking to hire a human? Write a job listing for humans.
Engaging job posts improve hiring outcomes
Diversity
How Evernote attracts more qualified and diverse applicants
An analysis of hiring performance before and after Textio
HR
Houston Astros’ World Series win is also a win for predictive data
What HR can learn from baseball
Machine Learning
The ebb and flow of structure and content
Latest hiring data from Textio’s predictive engine shows improved performance on words in your job posts
Hiring
The top 10 states for business jargon
Textio analyzes over a quarter-billion job postings to see where companies are putting the most jargon in their writing
Hiring
Three quick tips for a well-written job description—based on today’s hiring data
Like Goldilocks, a standout job post has the just-right mix of bullets, word count, and sentence length
Hiring
The power of location in job posts
Textio shows how the exact same job listing in two cities can result in very different hiring outcomes
Hiring
What’s so good about Data Exchange?
Here’s why 94% of our enterprise subscribers opt in to Textio’s game-changing learning loop
Diversity
Which hiring metrics truly matter?
Only the metrics that you’re willing to be accountable to
Startup
You built a roadmap to augmented writing, and it’s working
Textio accelerates with $20M Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners
Hiring
Exactly how bad jargon is holding back your hiring
Corporate cliches are no joke: using them in a job description can make the role 3x more likely to fill slowly
Diversity
If it ain’t broke, you’re probably going to fix it anyway
Given the opportunity, writers choose to improve what’s good nearly twice as often as they choose to fix problems
Recruiting
Textio adds new guidance for accounting, executive, hospitality, manufacturing and sales roles
When it comes to hiring language, context is everything
Hiring
Humans are still the best writers
In augmented writing, unique voices are the most important part of the learning loop
Diversity
Data-driven to perfection
Now Textio gives you more data behind the platform’s guidance to improve the performance of your job listing
Hiring
Watch now: How to write a stellar job post
Follow the tips from this free public workshop to write your best job description ever, using data from millions of hiring outcomes
Hiring
NVIDIA reboots its job description engine
A culture of innovation is fueling the enterprise-wide reinvention of job postings at NVIDIA, and it starts with Textio
Hiring
Pinterest vs. Twilio: job ad face-off
A line-by-line comparison of competitive job postings from two tech industry pioneers: which one will hire the better tech talent?
Hiring
ESPN vs Showtime: Job post face-off
These two cable TV giants have vastly different approaches to writing job ads, and one is clearly more effective
Hiring
Google Hire joins the applicant tracking system fray
An outsider’s insider perspective on what’s happening in the ATS landscape
Hiring
Job post face-off: New York vs. London
A side-by-side comparison of two job ads for roles in higher education—who will win the best talent?
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 5
Write your job listings with real-time data to predict how applicants will react
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 4
Convince the best candidates to apply with language that’s performing well today
Home Decor
What makes Restoration Hardware job descriptions stand out?
What makes Restoration Hardware job descriptions stand out? How top home furnishing retailers stack up in the war for talent.
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 3
The most effective listings are also the most engaging
Diversity
Lego’s gender tone in job posts might not be what you expect
Lego’s gender tone in job posts might not be what you expect. A look at how to the top toy manufacturers stack up on hiring performance.
Diversity
How to write your best job post ever: Part 1
What’s the key to attracting good candidates? Let’s take a look at the data
Hiring
Clemson whomps Alabama in hiring
In five out of six contests, the university with the higher Textio Score won their bowl game this season
Hiring
10 jobs in higher demand for 2017
Trending data from the last 12 months shows that demand for these roles will keep going higher this year
Diversity
Shopping for the best talent
How do big U.S. department stores stack up when it comes to hiring performance?
Hiring
Synergy: the buzzword that refuses to die
Despite decades of mockery, “synergy” can still help you hire quickly in some cities
Hiring
Where volunteer experience counts most
Data shows some cities put more stock in volunteer experience than others
Hiring
Low-cost airlines hire better
Budget carriers like Frontier and JetBlue take most of the top slots for U.S. airlines in the Textio Index
Hiring
There are only 5 supercities on Earth
Job posts with the word “super” perform poorly everywhere else
Language
These cities are kind of intense
Portland and other places where "intense" job posts perform better - and worse
Finance
Now Hiring: Bankers with a Sunny Disposition
Textio data finds that “personality” language ranks first in effectiveness for finance industry recruiting
Recruiting
Are you hiring for a cook?
Some phrases fill the white hat faster than you can bake a souffle.
Hiring
How to tell where you should work
A look at the data behind the Textio Index and how job seekers can use it in their search
Hiring
Wanted: Copy editors who get technical
Copy editing roles fill faster when they include technical writing
Hiring
Software engineers like people too?
Software engineers like people too? Data shows that “serve customers” means more than “latest tools” in faster-filling engineering job ads.
Jobs
’Tis the season for seasonal jobs
’Tis the season for seasonal jobs. Which cities have the highest number of “seasonal” job listings?
Hiring
Yes, even turkey dinner shows up in hiring.
Yes, even turkey dinner shows up in hiring. How many job postings include turkey, gravy, or pumpkin pie?
Diversity
Still looking for that “rock star” candidate?
Still looking for that “rock star” candidate? Here are 5 more terms that statistically mean your job post will fill very slowly.
Employer Branding
What cities are “competitive?”
What cities are “competitive?” 8 places where competitive language is good or bad in job posts.
Hiring
What jobs are hottest right now?
What jobs are hottest right now? The top 20 types of job postings being written in Textio this month.
Hiring
What does it take to hire well in Alaska?
What does it take to hire well in Alaska? Statistically, these 7 hiring phrases work better in Alaska than anywhere else.
Diversity
To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more
To fill tech jobs faster, “learn” more. Tech job posts with language about learning will fill faster and help you hire more women.
Machine Learning
Uncapped commission structures and flexible working hours
Uncapped commission structures and flexible working hours. 7 reasons why some jobs fill faster in Sydney.
Recruiting
Everything is not awesome
Everything is not awesome. If you call a job “awesome,” will it fill faster?
Hiring
Hawaii is fastest for filling hotel jobs
Hawaii is fastest for filling hotel jobs. But who is the speediest hotel job filler in the Aloha State?
Recruiting
Where is “cool” not cool?
Another example of how location can change the language that works
Language
What is the U.S. Senate saying about the #TrumpTapes?
A look at public responses in the 72 hours following the release of the Trump video
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