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How One Job Description Kept Out Half the Applicant Pool
Lucas and Luna dig into a 2024 study from the Society for Human Resource Management that found the average job description contains more than 80 requirements — but the most effective ones have fewer than 10. They break down why the laundry-list approach backfires, citing data from a 2025 Greenhouse Hiring Benchmark Report showing that reducing requirements from 15 to 6 increased applicant volume by 102 percent without lowering quality. They walk through the specific changes one mid-size tech company made to its software engineer job description, including ditching the '5 years of React…
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