Today’s recruitment world endeavours to be as inclusive as possible, especially after the Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the globe which exposed further socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities, and coincided with the health and economic disparities revealed by the pandemic.
If you are a business focused on delivering social change or, are a company embracing new ways of doing business to contribute to a more sustainable world, then you need a diverse workforce which is resilient, productive and innovative. By encouraging equality of opportunity across all gender, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and disability characteristics, you bring employees with a new perspective to the decision-making table, presenting new ideas, different approaches, providing solutions and potentially mitigating risk. Diversity in the workplace and in leadership roles is vital if we are to drive the social impact agenda forward.
Embracing diversity in the organisation’s recruitment process:
- Encourage a more inclusive culture and approach, placing positive value on diversity across the organisation
- Reinforce respect for diversity by celebrating cultural and religious backgrounds and different work and life experiences
- Engage Line Managers in training programmes around unconscious bias
- Announce the organisation’s commitment to diversity in Job ads and Job Descriptions
- Remove names and possibly educational establishments from CVs which are presented to Line Managers
