When it comes to writing and designing your job descriptions, employers need to step up their game in order to attract the right candidate and inspire them to apply. Thankfully a number of online tools exist to help you do just that. Check out these five free tools to make better job ads.

RecruitLab's Job Templates Tool

This free tool lets you create create mobile-friendly job adverts and recruitment landing pages in a visual format that is shareable.

customise text, change colours, fonts and photos
share job adverts on social media or link them to your career page

I tried it and here’s a sample of what your graphic can look like. Reminds me of an ‘infographic for jobs’. Click here to see the tool.

Job Grader

The team at Ph.Creative have created a tool that scores the viability of your existing jobs as they appear online. Simply enter your career site URL and email and let the tool do its thing. Click here to try it.

It will grade your job description according to 4 criteria;

Engagement
Conversion
SEO
Performance

Here’s a look at part of the report after I ran it through a job I posted online recently. It calculated it in less than 30 seconds.

Notice how it found a lack of visual content to make it more interesting.

It can tell you if your jobs are optimized for things like Google for Jobs.

Canva Job Templates

I can’t say enough about how much I love to use Canva.com to create graphics. It’s one of my must have tools as a content creator. Canva is an online image creator and did you they have a slew of job ad templates? Yep. Click here to see them.

Canva is free but also has a paid version for just $12.95/month. Well worth the price.

Poster My Wall Templates

This appears to be a Canva-like compeitor that also offer free job templates. Pricing is free but paid accounts are available as well with more features and usage. Click here to see it.

Monster.com Job Templates

If you are looking for help in writing your job descriptions Monster.com has a variety of sample ones online that you can cut and paste from. I wouldn’t use them word for word so be sure to edit and make them your own. For those of you with writers block these are a solid option to get started. Click here to see them.

The Monster templates have been written for dozens of different job titles.

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