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This is how to improve your diversity hiring strategy

November 4, 2021
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Diversity and inclusion hiring can be tricky to get right. It requires a lot of thought and the perfect tools to monitor and hire your diverse workforce, and choosing the right tools is essential.

Thankfully, many tools at your disposal will help you avoid bias and promote inclusion when hiring a diverse team in your organization. Which should you choose? Take a look at this article to find five helpful tools to boost diversity and inclusion in your team.

What is diversity hiring?

A diversity recruitment strategy aims to increase workforce diversity; the end goal of hiring managers who implement a diversity recruitment process is to recruit a diverse workforce.

Diversity hiring refers to a recruitment process that is free of unconscious bias, and once a diverse group of candidates has been narrowed down, inclusion is the next important factor for hiring managers.

So, the goal of effective diversity recruiting is not only an increase in workforce diversity; after hiring managers have selected a candidate from underrepresented groups, HR professionals should put in place inclusive workforce measures as well. Because, as stated by Harvard Business Review what matters is how an organization harnesses diversity.

How does diversity hiring work in recruitment?

Diversity hiring in recruitment works by sourcing, screening, vetting and then hiring from a diverse pool of candidates, but it also includes describing your company culture and using inclusive language in job descriptions.

What are the pros of diversity hiring?

Two advantages of diversity hiring include that business success can be increased due to the many different perspectives within the team and that team members might feel more loyal to the organization.

Business success and productivity increase with diversity hiring

A study by the Boston Consulting Group found that diverse companies produce 19% more revenue compared with organizations with below-average leadership diversity. These findings show the tangible benefits of increasing workplace diversity, which is that business success is increased.

Increased loyalty in teams and retention rates

If you improve diversity within your organization and aim for a diverse workforce you’re also likely to increase loyalty among employees and higher retention rates are the result, as stated by techcrunch.com. If teams feel included, valued and appreciated in an organization, they feel invested, which significantly contributes to morale.

What are the cons of diversity hiring?

As well as the fact that key decisions might take longer to be approved, communication challenges caused by diversity can prevent productivity.

Difficulties making decisions as a team

Keep in mind that it might take longer to make pivotal decisions as a diverse team with different opinions. This can, on the one hand, lead to better quality decisions that consider all angles of the issue. But it can also prevent rapid progression due to the many opinions of the team.

Difficulties communicating as a team

Increasing diversity creates communication challenges as each team member might have their preferred style of communicating. This can lead to miscommunication or vital information being overlooked.

How do you hire for diversity?

As part of a diversity recruitment strategy, hiring managers aim to intentionally attract diverse candidates and build a candidate pool to choose from. They begin by putting together job adverts in which they might describe the position as an equal opportunity vacancy.

But to increase the effectiveness of diversity hiring, a hiring team must promote diversity, the inclusive culture or inclusive environment of the organization in the job description they post on job boards. It can help with attracting talent from underrepresented groups and they can then begin evaluating resumes.

Avoiding unconscious bias is also important for inclusive recruiting. So when screening resumes hiring managers shouldn’t focus on the candidates’ personal information such as their name or gender.

Diverse candidates interviewed by hiring managers might be from different demographic groups. The recruiting team might eliminate unconscious bias by asking candidates to complete a skills assessment as part of the candidate screening process, and work on a diversity and inclusion statement as part of their diversity recruitment efforts.

5 popular tools that help you hire for diversity

If you’re sold on diversity recruiting strategies, here are five popular tools that will increase your hiring efforts and increase diversity.

1.     Alliebot

Distribute diversity and inclusion surveys with ease to gain the opinions of your candidates on your organization’s inclusion efforts. Use Alliebot with Slack, gather employee responses with the feedback tool, and receive suggestions for diversity and inclusion training for your organization with Allie.

2.     Culture Amp

Gather data related to the engagement of your employees, such as turnover predictions, with Culture Amp. This app will help you with the inclusion part of diversity and inclusion by helping you conduct performance reviews without bias.

3.     Greenhouse

Staying aware of unconscious bias to hire diverse candidates is simple with the Greenhouse app. Use its reminders to avoid making biased decisions, carry out the interview process remotely with a diverse range of candidates, and enhance your inclusion efforts by scheduling alerts that remind you to update your candidates.

4.     Gender Decoder

Find out how the inclusion level of your job descriptions with Gender Decoder. This tool will help you detect biases in the language of your job ads and ensure that you avoid masculine or feminine-coded language to promote inclusion.

5.     Textio

Effortlessly attract and hire diverse, talented job seekers by writing inclusive, succinct and easy to interpret job descriptions with Textio. Use it with a range of tools such as Greenhouse or Outlook and outperform competitor job descriptions by comparing your job ad to other businesses’.

Use handy tools to enhance your diversity recruitment efforts

Diversity recruiting efforts can be difficult, but diversity recruitment strategies can be made easier with the right tools. Attract more diverse candidates and hire more diverse employees by:

  • Writing a job description that describes your diverse culture to job seekers
  • Widening your talent pool to specific demographics that are underrepresented
  • Avoiding gender-coded words that can alienate female candidates

Explore the above list of tools to appeal to diverse candidates and find out more recruitment solutions at recruitmenttech.com.

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