Job Descriptions and Interviews

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• Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality — Danielle Gaucher, Justin Friesen, Aaron C. Kay (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)

• 1000 different people, the same words — Kieran Snyder (Textio)

• How Changing One Word In Job Descriptions Can Lead To More Diverse Candidates — Courtney Seiter (Fast Company)

• The One Word Men Never See In Their Performance Reviews — Kathleen Davis (Fast Company)

• Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back — Shelley J. Correll, Caroline Simard (HBR)

• We Recorded VCs’ Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs — Malin Malmstrom, Jeaneth Johansson, Joakim Wincent (HBR)

• Women Won’t Apply for Jobs Seeking “Assertive” Applicants. Should Women Change, or Should Job Ads? — Katy Waldman (Slate)

• Use Gendered Words in Job Descriptions? Expect Way Fewer Applicants — Christina Cauterucci (Slate)

• *This* is How We Should Write Developer Job Posting — Mitchell Pronschinske (LinkedIn)

• HOWTO recruit and retain women in tech workplaces: Make your ads inclusive for women — Geek Feminist Wikia

• Why We Removed the Word “Hacker” From Buffer Job Descriptions — Courtney Seiter (Buffer)

• No brogrammers: Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads — Charlie von Metzradt (Hosted Graphite)

• Hiring: It’s About Cultural Contribution, Not Cultural Fit — Diego Rodriguez (LinkedIn)

• The Imbalance of Culture Fit — Matt Griffin (A List Apart)

• Who Y Combinator Companies Want — Ammon Bartram (Triplebyte)

• Why is hiring broken? It starts at the whiteboard. — Quincy Larson (freeCodeCamp)

• How to fix the technical interview (and maybe the developer shortage) — Mitch Pronschinske (TechBeacon)

• Write A Job Advertisement - Part 1 — Career Tools Podcast

• Writing A Job Description - Part 2 — Career Tools Podcast

• For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic — Nitasha Tiku (Wired)

• Hiring — Project Include

• Guide: Use structured interviewing — re:Work with Google

• The essential guide to hiring diverse development teams — Mitch Pronschinske (TechBeacon)

• If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired — Stefanie K. Johnson, David R. Hekman, Elsa T. Chan (HBR)

• What Is The Rooney Rule? — Greta Jochem (Bustle)