How do you make your hiring process more inclusive?

How do you make your hiring process more inclusive?

I've heard a lot about what companies are doing to help create a more diverse and inclusive culture, but what is your company doing in the hiring process (or should be doing)?

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  1. Angie Callen

    I know some larger companies who have built-in DEI requirements into their application processes, and if they don't get enough diversity in the candidate pool, they'll keep the job open. I think this one is tricky and is less about getting a statistical demographic in a pool and more about making sure there's accessibility and that positions are marketed in equitable environments. The intent is great, but I've seen this one in practice as a coach working with candidates going through these kinds of processes, and it's still a little sticky.

    I also know of some processes where contact information and names are taken off of resumes prior to hiring managers seeing them, so the biased is removed.

  2. Anonymous

    We leverage our internal diversity or affinity groups to help promote jobs internally and externally.
    This has really helped broaden our candidate pool so it's more inclusive. In addition, we have been working to make the job postings more inclusive so diverse candidates are attracted to the position. It's another way we leverage our affinity groups -- to provide feedback on the language we use for job postings.

  3. Anonymous

    Our organization has new guidelines that we must adhere to for all new hiring and based on these guidelines, our team has rolled out a new process.

    For example, we redact personal information from resumes before they are reviewed by hiring managers and we have a rubric for reviewing the resumes, need at least 2 rounds of interviews (but there can be more), need to have at least 3 panelists for each interview who are diverse in terms of race, level, gender, etc, each interview panel needs to ask standard questions for all candidates, need to have a rubric to evaluate the candidate on for each question of each interview, and if there is an assignment, it should be evaluated the same for all candidates. This process takes a bit of time and effort to set up, but once it's in place for one role, it gets easier. It's worth it to minimize bias in the process.

  4. Dr. Linnie Carter

    Greetings!

    As a leader, I am doing the following - Getting rid of the closet racists and white supremacists on my team (you must create a healthy and safe culture for underrepresented populations first) - Ensuring that the supervisors on my team know the expectations with inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging - Publicizing the vacant positions to organizations that support people of color and posting onto social media sites created for people of color - Making sure the applicant pool is racially and ethnically diverse - Asking the supervisors on my team to explain why candidates (of all races) are being interviewed or not interviewed - Ensuring that all interviewees receive the same interview questions and activities (at least one interview question is about inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging) - Ensuring that the candidates being interviewed are welcomed warmly and authentically (we speak candidly about the journey to be antiracist during interviews) - Investing in a robust onboarding and training process - Treating the new colleagues with respect, dignity and humanity and following through on the promises made to them when they were being interviewed.

    The people of color on my team tell me that they feel safe – safer than they have ever felt in a professional setting. The main reason is that their leader – me – is a strong, passionate and empathetic Black women. I do not allow racists and white supremacists to target and terrorize my team – before, during or after the hiring process.

    I hope this information is helpful. Thank you!

  5. Lauren Michelotti

    This is great.
    Thank you for sharing and for holding your company up to a high and very much necessary standard. I’d love to post my company’s jobs to the organizations and social media sites you mentioned — would you mind sharing a few here? Thank you!

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