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title: 'Karolina Szczur: ‘Your Tech Job Posting is Broken’'
date: 2017-08-17 10:11:00 -05:00
tags:
- jobs
- tech
- hiring
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link_url: https://medium.com/@fox/your-tech-job-posting-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it-6db06b9769cb
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Karolina Szczur:

> Over a year ago [I wrote on the subject of empathetic hiring](https://medium.com/@fox/a-guide-to-empathetic-hiring-processes-c11c7ce0cd49) and how we’re still failing to make it efficient, respectful and inclusive.
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> …
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> There are innumerable amounts of tech job postings. **A good deal of them are gendered to favor male candidates, full of meaningless buzzwords and failing to picture what the job actually requires, let alone mentioning what you’ll get in return.** We need to fix this.

As someone who just went through the process of finding a job, I couldn't agree with Karolina more.