Diversity in recruitment means reaching, assessing and employing people from a range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to help improve business performance and employee experience.
Mention the word "diversity recruiting" to a room full of executives and you may see eyeballs rolling. It usually means half-baked training programs, hiring quotas and longer recruitment cycles. It's tired, overused and has become a dirty word. When was the last time...
Improving diversity is a modern-day imperative for all HR teams. Moral reasons combined with the unarguable business benefits of increasing workplace diversity are important, especially in the face of overwhelming evidence that people are routinely disadvantaged...