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We wanted to create the ultimate Open Job Ad so that companies could ensure applicants could really get a sense for who they were applying to.

We spent several months trying to find the perfect one. We studied 1000+ and ultimately failed. Whilst doing so however we found a bunch of companies who did certain sections extremely well - (h/t Sourcegraph, Cal.com, Buffer, Gitlab and Posthog) so decided that rather than trying to find the perfect one we’d curate the best bits into a single unified template for People and Talent Leaders like you to use as inspiration to:

Attract and repel the right talent.

Give and Get, Charlotte Marshall and Bryan Adams

Hope it’s useful to you - take it make it your own

Love, the open org team ❤

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Useful? You should also:

🏕️ Join our Slack community! - Intentionally small (500), focused specifically on people people building between 10-1000 FTE in the startup/scale up space. Give & get help from the most relevant, generous HR folks out there

✨ Start using Open Org’s Workspace to plan, build & ship your work way faster. Build using AI that’s underpinned by resources from real people who have actually done your job before.

Adam & John | Open Org :openorg-logo:

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😻 Inspired by

🎨 Make-up of an Open Job Ad

⚙️ Transparency Components:

In no particular order:

🌈 Company Mission and Vision

Open Job Ads clearly state the company's mission and vision, giving applicants an idea of the larger goal they would be contributing to.

Remote.com mission statement [example]
Aiven.io we’ve got the will, the way and the funding [example]
Prolific mission statement and snapshot [example]
Accurx mission statement [example]
Sylvera context statement [example]
Ethena context and mission statement [example]

🚦Current Status and Future Goals

Open Job Ads mention the company's achievements, customer base, mini-history/timeline and funding, which not only builds credibility but also gives a sense of the company's financial stability and ambition.

Linearity funding and health snapshot [example]
Oyster snapshot [example]
HiBob snapshot [example]
Raycast timeline [example]

🌍 Working Hours and Location

Open Job Ads specify what kind of ‘remote’ they practice with extreme clarity and outline the time zones, core hours and expectations that applicants need to overlap with, providing clarity on work-life expectations.

Oyster when and where we work [example]
Raycast clear when we work statement [example]
Ethena when and where we work statement [example]