Why Job Descriptions Should Exist on Your Website—Not Just Emails
Making your organization’s open positions available on your website makes it easy for all of us to access. Fantastic candidates can find it, friends of great candidates can share it with friends (or the candidate can find it themselves if their friend forgets to forward the posting), and selfishly, we can actually post it on our social media accounts and jobs board.
Ask ReproJobs: What are the best practices for searching for a new Executive Director?
Hiring is the most important job many of us do, and the leader of an organization can make profound change for the better or worse.
Stop offering employee benefits that aren’t actually benefits. Here’s how.
Benefits are important. So is being upfront about what you offer.
A Day Late and A Dollar Short: Pay Equity in the Repro Movement
A report on pay equity in the reproductive justice, rights, and health movement organizations.
Undue Burden: When Moving for the Movement Is Out of Budget
Economic justice is reproductive justice but unfortunately the repro movement has a long way to go before we achieve either. We often talk about the need for more diverse candidates and the need to center the leadership of people most impacted by systems of oppression but if organizations continue to be unaware or simply ignore the economic realities that many of us face, the movement will continue to suffer.
Practice What You Preach!: Why We Should Be Ending Unpaid Internships
As women of color research fellows for Pay Our Interns, we advocate for other women of color interns to be fairly and equitably compensated in Congressional internships. So we’re here to push other organizations to do the same. Enough is enough! It’s time to put an end to harmful practices that demand unpaid labor from BIWOC*.
Hiring is Hard. Getting Ghosted Is Harder: Tips for creating transparent and humane hiring processes.
This year has already been the worst, longest collective year in existence because of this pandemic, why should hiring continue the same practices making it even more stressful?
Breaking Into Repro: Reading Job Descriptions
How you read a job description to get the most information out of it, and to get hints at what the organization's culture is like, is a honed skill.
It’s the inaccessibility for me: Why your hiring process must reflect your values.
So many hiring practices that social justice organizations use don't match their values or their work, and as a result, cause them to miss out on the very candidates they are allegedly recruiting: "diverse" hires.
Practice makes (near) perfect: sample questions to prepare for your job interview
Scroll through these questions and practice your answers to help you feel confident for your next job interview.
Why you need to post salaries and benefits in every job post
It's the right thing to do, and will encourage more diverse candidates who are a better fit for the position to apply.
Does that job really require a Bachelor's Degree?
Ask yourself these questions before tacking on this requirement to your next job description.
10 ways to make your organization more inclusive of people with disabilities
Your workplace needs to be accessible for people with disabilities. Here's what you can do to make that happen.