Diversity recruitment provides many benefits for your company’s performance, innovation, and productivity including a broader skill set amongst your team, increased cultural awareness, and a more varied pool of candidates. Here are four winning tips to ensure that you onboard employees that bring a diverse set of thoughts and ideas.
Develop your brand to showcase your diversity: Openly discuss the benefits and importance of diversity within your team and engrain that in the team’s culture. By doing this you will begin to be recognized as a brand that values people from all walks of life.
Encourage current employees to reach out to their network: Members of your team will likely have networks of people with similar backgrounds to them, so encourage them to share your job postings with their networks and give them the tools to promote that job. Also, send out employees to hiring events prepared to discuss why your company is a great fit for all people.
Offer internship programs to specific groups: Many companies start internal diversity programs that offer internships to targeted groups. Reach out to different schools and community groups to uncover opportunities to form connections.
Implement company policies that appeal to a diverse set of candidates: It’s important to institute and update company policies that appeal to diverse candidates. One way to do this is by offering time off that includes more religious holidays and community events encouraging employees to be active in the community.
Organizations can grow their market share at fantastic rates when bringing different groups from different backgrounds together. Hopefully, these tips will help you start on the right track to achieving that growth.
Sources:
https://www.achievers.com/blog/7-strategies-hire-diversity-thought-organization/
https://recruitee.com/articles/diversity-recruiting-strategy
58 Comments