# Coraline Ada Ehmke — Not Applicable: What Your Job Post Is Really Saying

<https://where.coraline.codes/blog/not_applicable/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is worth reading a couple of times. The cultural signals in your job postings are real, and they dramatically impact the candidate pool.

> If you truly believe that your engineering culture is welcoming and provides opportunities for growth and learning, shouldn’t you make that a core part of your message to potential employees?

The punchline for the entire article is at the bottom and it’s big.

> We had over three hundred applications, almost 75% of them from underrepresented minorities in tech.

Wow! 🤯

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- [WT38: Weekly Thing for January 27, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/38/), Links 📌

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