Textio

Hire and develop an exceptional team

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Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams. Our latest innovation is Lavalier, an interview intelligence tool that helps you make confident hiring decisions by turning interviews into comparable evidence about skills and ability to do the job. Founded in 2014, People leaders at companies like Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Spotify choose Textio to help them attract and develop the top 1% of talent.

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Super interesting and smart to focus on one specific use case to start with: job applications.

What other use cases are people using this for, @jensenharris / @kieransnyder?

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10yr ago

a16z - Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers

Maker

@rrhoover @jensenharris People want every use case! We recently created a beta explicitly for recruiting email because we saw that people were putting a lot of related content through Textio already. We have seen recruitment and other marketing content, sales content, course syllabi, pitch decks, love letters... but we are trained on and promise to be great at talent and hiring docs.

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10yr ago

@kieransnyder You're on to something here. Would totally use this for any kind of content, reminds me of Hemingway Editor. Do you have any plans to support additional languages, let's say German?

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10yr ago

a16z - Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers

Maker

@zedpelin We will support other languages, but not quite yet. I started my tech career in internationalization and multilingual support is important to me, but we're not quite ready. (We support regional tailoring for different varieties of English right now.) Thanks for the kind words!

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10yr ago

@kieransnyder Hey! It's been three years since this comment so I hope you are much closer to supporting German now. Right? :)

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6yr ago

The Twenty Minute VC

And even for more than gender bias... just better, more fitting applicants all around... go Textio! #proudinvestor

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10yr ago

How do you decide what phrases are gender biased? Is there any data or research to back up the claim that the phrase "proven track record" attracts more men to a job, while "passion for learning" attracts more women? I'd love to see the science behind this.

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10yr ago

Simplecast

@pawtiko Me too. Until I see the real data I'm going to assume those are stereotypes and therefore — sexist.

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10yr ago

a16z - Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers

Maker

@ashocka18 @pawtiko Hi! Textio is a quantitative system. It starts by looking at many previous job listings and information about who has actually applied for them,. Then Textio finds the patterns that consistently drive various application and hiring outcomes. Language that is judged "masculine" or "feminine" is language that has statistically driven high proportions of male or female applicants for similar jobs in the past. When a job listing comes in to Textio, Textio compares it with other similar job listings whose previous outcome is known. Inclusive language ("green") language is language that statistically draws more applicants, draws more highly qualified applicants, and fills roles faster. Masculine and feminine language drive higher %s of male and female applicants respectively compared to the baseline for the job. Negative ("red") language is language that everyone across demographic groups disprefers.

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10yr ago

Simplecast

@kieransnyder @pawtiko That's nice, but I still don't see any data. @rrhoover what is PH's stance on this? Problems I see with this startup: Lack of any data that would support your stereotypical claims. The copy misuses the word "gender bias", probably to earn sympathy of the less informed. "Gender bias" means "unequal treatment in employment". Using certain words in a job description will not solve this problem. Changing the mentality of those in HR will solve this problem. This startup's definition of "genders" is "male or female". This means they're actively discrediting all other gender identities. Again, not helping the diverstiy problem at all. Taking on this challenge, the founders should have predicted the PC backslash and have the data ready (and a PR person able to handle it).

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10yr ago

Cascadeur

Just got an invite and started using this. Pretty awesome, my first posting got an 85! Second one only a 74. I obviously have room for improvement.

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11yr ago

Textio enables talent pros, entrepreneurs and anyone trying to hire people better and faster through the "smartest" job description and messaging. It's an efficient product where you can foresee success or failure.

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10yr ago