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Title/Description

• How to Make a Less Racist, More Inclusive Job Listing | Huffington Post | August 20, 2020
• Tricks to creating effective job titles | Career.Place | 2/10/21
• Your Job Descriptions Are Hurting Your Hiring Pipeline | Think Growth | 2017
• Gender Decoder tool for Job Ads: This site is a quick way to check whether a job advert has the kind of subtle linguistic gender-coding that might discourage applicants.
• 10 Samples of an Effective EEO Statement | Ongig  | October 31, 2017

Minimum requirements

• Five questions to ask when creating minimum ‘must have’ job requirements | Career.Place, July 29, 2019:
• Equity In Action: Creating an Equitable Hiring Practice with Skills-Based Hiring |  The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia | November 9, 2020  
  Tip: one way to approach skills-based is hiring for transferable skills rather than a college degree.
• How to use data to analyze and change your practices for job requirements and screening for greater equity with “The secret to optimizing candidate screening” | Career.Place | November 4, 2020
• The power of WHY - in refining requirements to find true needs | Career.Place, August, 19, 2021

Add salary/hourly wages in your job descriptions

• You’re not serious about equity if you don’t post salaries | Nonprofit Technology Conference | November 19, 2019
• When You Don’t Disclose Salary Range on a Job Posting… Reasons to put an end to “salary cloaking” immediately | Non-Profit AF | June 1, 2015 https://bit.ly/2qORUzn
• The case for “Posting Salary in Job Listings” | The Balance Careers | March, 5 2018

Expand and Diversify your candidate pool

• Three tips for driving diversity in your candidate pool | Career.Place, February 3, 2020:
• Diverse Hiring Sites as suggested by members and partners - Google Sheets

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