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Feminine or neutral coded job description:

You’ve used mostly feminine or neutral words in your description. Nice one!
Research has shown these are the best words to attract the widest possible pool of candidates. Men display only a slight preference for masculine worded jobs adverts. Gender wording does not affect men’s anticipated feeling of belongingness. So you've used the right words to appeal to the widest pool of candidates.

Masculine coded job description

We've highlighted the masculine words you've used, in case you want to swap them out

You’ve used too many masculine words in your job description. Based on academic research by Gaucher, Frisen and Kay, women may be deterred from applying for jobs if masculine words are used in the job description. For women, masculine job descriptions mean a decreased sense of belonging. Women struggle to see themselves fitting in, irrespective of factors like qualifications and ability.

Feminine or neutral words you used:

Full list of feminine and neutral words

Affectionate	Cooperates	Kinship	Support	Warm
Child	Co-operates	Loyal	Supports	Warms
Children	Co-operate	Loyalty	Supporting	Yield
Cheer	Cooperative	Loyally	Supported	Yields
Cheers	Depend	Modesty	Sympathy	Yielding
Cheerful	Dependable	Nurture	Sympathetic
Cheerfully	Depends	Nurtures	Sympathetically
Commit	Emotional	Nurturing	Tender
Commitment	Emotionally	Nurtured	Tendering
Committed	Empathy	Pleasant	Tenders
Commits	Empathetic	Pleasantly	Tendered
Communal	Empathetically	Polite	Together
Compassion	Feminine	Quiet	Togetherness
Compassionate	Flatter	Quietly	Trust
Connect	Gentle	Respond	Trusts
Connects	Honest	Responsive	Trusted
Connected	Interpersonal	Responsively	Trustworthy
Considerate	Interdependent	Sensitive	Understand
Cooperate	Interdependence	Sensitively	Understands
Cooperative	Kind	Submissive	Understanding

Masculine words you used:

Full list of masculine words

Active	Autonomously	Courageously	Headstrong	Lead	Self-sufficient
Adventurous	Boast	Decide	Hierarchy	Leads	Self-sufficiently
Aggressive	Boasts	Decisive	Hierarchical	Leader	Self-reliant
Aggressively	Boasting	Decision	Hostile	Leading	Self-reliance
Aggressiveness	Boastful	Decisions	Hostiles	Logic
Aggression	Boastfully	Decisional	Hostility	Masculine
Ambition	Challenge	Determine	Hostilely	Objective
Ambitious	Challenging	Determines	Impulsive	Opinion
Ambitiously	Challenged	Determined	Independent	Outspoken
Ambitiousness	Challenges	Determining	Independents	Persist
Analytical	Challengingly	Dominant	Independence	Principle
Analytic	Challengingly	Dominate	Independence	Principles
Analyst	Competition	Dominates	Independency	Principled
Athlete	Competitive	Dominated	Independently	Reckless
Athletic	Competitiveness	Dominating	Individual	Stubborn
Athletically	Competitiveness	Force	Individuals	Superior
Athletes	Competitively	Forces	Individually	Superiorly
Athletics	Confident	Forcible	Intellect	Self-confident
Autonomy	Courage	Forcer	Intellectually	Self-confidence
Autonomous	Courageous	Greedy	Intellectual	Self-confidently

Equal opportunities statement

Although not strictly necessary, equal opportunity statements are recruitment best practice, and may encourage candidates to apply.
The wording is up to you, but some standard text like this is a good place to start:

“We are an equal opportunities employer”;
or “We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

Job description length:

There is such a thing as an ideal length when it comes to online job descriptions.
Job board Appcast.io’s study of 400,000 job seekers revealed jobs that were between 2000-10000 characters get a click to apply rate of around 7%. Anything less than 2000 and there is not enough detail, anything more than 10000 and there’s too much.
However, the optimal length for job descriptions is between 4000-5000 characters. At this length, the click to apply rate reaches a pinnacle of 15%.

And finally….

Check My Job is designed to offer help and suggestions for writing the best possible job description. All of the suggestions are based on findings, research and best practice from very clever people. However, it is not intended to be a hard and fast rule, so please do not treat it as one.

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