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Diversity and inclusion in recruitment: how to hire more diverse candidates?
In recent years, a growing number of companies have stated that diversity and inclusion in the workplace are their top priority. Because the more diverse the workplace is, the more profitable it will be in comparison with less diverse companies. Now more than ever,...
An Introduction to Automatic Keyphrase Extraction
With the increasing amount of content available on the Web, we have bountiful information resources in the form of web pages (henceforth called documents). At the same time, having so much information at our disposal can make it unwieldy to go through and find exactly...
Augmented writing tools and divers and inclusive recruitment: how does it work?
To know how augmented writing tools can be of help in recruitment, and more specifically in preventing gender bias in writing job descriptions, you first need to know what augmented writing tools are. Augmented writing can best be described as a technology that serves...
Appeal to the masses by using the right words
Why does one person decide to respond to your job vacancy while another doesn’t even fully read it? How come it always seems that very few people apply? And why do most of the people who do apply not even fit the job description? These are frustrations that many...
Capterra names Textmetrics 3rd best Dutch software product
The Netherlands is well represented in the software world. Besides many Forbes-2000 companies like Cisco, Oracle, Google, Microsoft and Huawei that are based in this country, there are also many software companies with Dutch roots. Of these companies listed on...
Shift your focus to skills and diversity
Ideally, companies want to hire employees who can manage the company's results. To get this talent in-house, recruiters need to come up with a new plan of action. While recruiting new talent, organizations must pay attention to two things: skills and diversity. ...
Job postings often far too difficult for target group (EN/NL)
De Nederlandse versie vindt u onderaan Job postings often far too difficult for target group 3 January 2021 - Arnhem The average reading levels are dropping, but this fact has hardly been addressed when it comes to job descriptions. More than three-quarters of job...
How do you ensure inclusive recruitment and selection?
How do you ensure inclusive recruitment and selection? How do you organize your HR policy to attract and retain more women and minorities? We share some practical tips and best practices. In case of equal suitability, equal opportunities: this is how you ideally...
Vacancies most banks, insurers and telecom not written for women (EN/NL)
De Nederlandse versie vindt u onderaan Vacancies most Dutch banks, insurers and telecom not written for women 12 November 2020 - Arnhem The job postings of most Dutch banks, insurance companies, telecom and IT companies still focus too much on male candidates. This is...
The role of digitization in recruitment
The role of digitization in recruitment The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the role of digitization in business. Practically overnight, we all had to work from home and find new ways to stay productive. As a result, the use of online applications increased...
“Most annoying HR task finally a thing of the past?” (EN/NL)
De Nederlandse versie vindt u onderaan Data driven job texts with Textmetrics recruitment powered by Jobdigger and Intelligence Group 15 October 2020 - Arnhem / Rotterdam “HR employees and recruiters find writing vacancy texts one of the least enjoyable tasks...
Textmetrics wins SME/MKB Award 2020
Textmetrics wins the SME Proof Award 2020 The corona crisis accelerates all kinds of processes and we see that the use of digital technologies increases rapidly. As the economy needs to adapt to this change, digitization keeps the economy in the air. This requires a...
The future of AI in the recruitment industry
The future of AI in the recruitment industry Many companies struggle to find the right candidates. For certain jobs, there just aren’t enough qualified people out there, and it seems to be difficult to find good candidates unless they are actively looking for a new...
Textmetrics launches Google Chrome plugin
It is now possible to check the SEO and content score of your web page directly in Google Chrome with our Google Chrome plugin. The Google Chrome plugin supports our one-of-a-kind content quality analysis and our advanced SEO analysis that will assist you in achieving...
VacatureVerbeteraar.nl merges into Textmetrics’ new Recruitment Module (EN/NL)
De Nederlandse versie vindt u onderaan Text and employee motivation analysis available in 14 languages from September 1st Arnhem/Rotterdam, the Netherlands – As of September 1st, VacatureVerbeteraar.nl, a website to enhance job descriptions, will be fully...
Textmetrics launches Adobe Experience Manager plugin
Our new AEM CMS plugin allows you to use the Textmetrics content analysis and suggestions directly in your Adobe Experience Manager CMS. The plugin supports our one-of-a-kind content quality analysis and our advanced SEO analysis that will assist you in achieving your...
What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?
Everything you need to know Computers don’t speak languages the way humans do. They communicate in machine code or machine language, while we speak English, Dutch, French or some other human language. Most of us don’t understand the millions of zeros and ones...
10 Marketing Practices You Can’t Ignore – Part 2
As the marketing trend changes rapidly, it's not easy to keep up. Marketers have to be alert and stay informed at all times in order to stay ahead of the current market situation. In the second part of this blog post, we keep you updated on the latest marketing...
Textmetrics sees strong growth in number of customers for its language platform (EN/NL)
De Nederlandse versie vind je onderaan "working remotely" creates the need for the right customer communication and findability Arnhem, 19 May 2020 – Despite the corona crisis, the first four months of this year have been excellent for Textmetrics, a Dutch tech...
10 Marketing Practices You Can’t Ignore
Trends in marketing come and go. That won’t be much of a surprise if you think of all the new technologies that emerged in recent years. Think of things like artificial intelligence, data-driven marketing and voice search. If you miss out on these new trends, you’ll...
Everything You Need to Know About the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
When you’re browsing the web or developing a website, you probably don’t realize that there are groups of people who struggle with the accessibility of digital information on a daily basis. Among these are people with a physical disability, photosensitive seizures,...
Textmetrics launches new WordPress Plugin update
Textmetrics launches Wordpress Plugin update with structured data feature for Google for Jobs. Our new WordPress Plugin update will allow you to add job information in your WordPress website in such a way that it can be processed by Google, so that your jobs can be...
Most Rising Trends in HR in 2020 – Part 3
Technological developments, like automation and robotizing, are about to change the workforce of the future. Current jobs will disappear, there will be new roles that we haven’t even heard of yet, and people working at companies will need new skills to do their jobs....
Most Rising Trends in HR in 2020 – Part 2
HR analytics isn’t a new or unknown concept. Most people working in HR will know what it’s about. But there is only a small amount of HR departments that use the available HR management information to its full potential. Even though they collect vast quantities of...