Attitudes to talent attraction, recruitment and retention are a key indicator of how invested management is in promoting diversity within an organisation. The following recommendations focus on actions that local management in your company can take to improve D&I performance throughout their recruitment activity.
Ensure that all participants in the recruitment process understand your values - Engage with everyone with recruitment responsibilities (managers, internal recruiters and external agencies) so they understand the importance of inclusivity to your culture.
Employ neutral language & imagery in recruitment branding - Use neutral language in all recruitment literature and job descriptions and ensure that imagery used in your broader employer branding is diverse & representative.
Target and monitor diversity recruitment performance - Benchmark, set targets & monitor the number of new hires your management team make from historically underrepresented groups.
Include talent with protected characteristics in all pipelines and shortlists - Ask your team leaders to build talent pipelines and shortlists which include a target percentage of staff with protected characteristics. Work with HR to identify barriers to achieving these targets.
Refine the interview process to maximise engagement with D&I candidates - Consider the diversity of your interview panels and explore whether you can support your managers by giving them greater awareness and training around challenges such as unconscious bias.
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