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Job listings with over 50% bullet points significantly reduce female applicants
“If you go above 50% bulleted content in a listing, you quickly reduce the proportion of women who are likely to apply for the job, statistically.”
Diversity of an applicant pool strongly predicts how quickly jobs fill
“It turns out that the percentage of underrepresented groups who apply to a job is a very good predictor of how quickly the role will fill”
Corporate jargon in job postings disproportionately deters applicants of color
“Like some of that corporate jargon, the words like synergy and stakeholders and ROI. It turns out everybody hates them, but underrepresented groups, especially people of color, hate them even more. So nobody is as likely to apply when you include that language…”
Machine learning models often predict outcomes without explaining why they happen
“The models that you can create can often tell you what might happen, but they can't always tell you why.”
Text is the primary daily volume output of almost every business
“Whatever business you are in, whether you're making software, or you're making hamburgers, or you're making playground equipment, The thing you're actually making the most of every day at work is text, ah, almost certainly.”
Over a third of recruited candidates abandon applications after reading the listing
“Over a third of people that you're reaching out to who are looking for jobs walk away when they see your job listing.”
Job seekers scan listings for only a couple seconds before deciding
“Turns out people scan a listing for only a couple seconds before deciding whether to engage.”