While strategic decisions surrounding Diversity and Inclusion initiatives occur well above where most
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While strategic decisions surrounding Diversity and Inclusion initiatives occur well above where most Recruiters and Sourcers sit, individuals can still help drive, as well as meet, organizational objectives. A significant source of potential impact is through leveraging pipeline diversity. When the shortlist or interview slate includes more individuals from diverse backgrounds, that affects hiring. After all, diverse candidates can’t be hired if they aren’t included for consideration in the first place! Individual Recruiters and Sourcers can also help promote diversity by not filtering people out before they even enter the pipeline. A few immediate steps to take are:
- Identifying and mitigating our own unconscious biases
- Carefully considering the language that we use in outreach messages and job postings
- Making a direct effort to discover and engage with candidates beyond our “usual suspects.”
Our theme this week is “Sourcing for Diversity” - what individual contributors in Recruitment and Sourcing can do to help drive and meet organizational goals - and we’d love to hear your ideas as well! Drop us a line, or see “Feedback” below for more ways to join the conversation.
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Our online Sourcing classes provide the latest, up-to-date, in-depth info on Sourcing core concepts, best practices, tools, and advanced techniques. Our classes come with the materials for you to keep and one month of support on the topic covered. See our full list of upcoming classes here. |
Sourcing for Diversity
Coming up on April 10th (with an optional hands-on Workshop April 11th). Are you looking for quicker, more useful search techniques to include Women in Technology, Veterans, African-American, Latino or Hispanic candidates, or members of any other diversity categories in your talent pool? The class provides an ample supply of sites and tools to explore. It empowers you to create a diversity Sourcing strategy, customized to your hiring needs and resources. Also, the principles that we teach in the class help when revising and improving your organization’s overall Sourcing strategy.
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Find Anyone's Contact Info Workshop
Did you miss the live workshop on March 13th? Don’t worry! A recording is now available (including the slides and 30 days of follow-on support) from our site. This interactive Sourcing Workshop provides a six-step methodology, covering best practices to find contact information for any prospect. While there is no “silver bullet” for finding email addresses or phone numbers, there are many useful tips, tricks, and tools that will make this process easier for you.
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Boolean Strings Basics
Coming up on June 4th (with an optional hands-on Workshop June 5th). The course serves as an excellent resource for new Sourcers and an excellent way for experienced Sourcers to refresh their advanced Boolean search skills. We cover the basics of Boolean Strings building for Google and other search engines; LinkedIn; job boards; and more. We also cover the main concepts, best practices, and techniques to craft expert searches for finding any professional online, regardless of skill set, location, or industry.
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Over on YouTube, we’re producing short videos answering reader questions and demonstrating neat Sourcing tricks. Click here for the full playlist. However, this week we wanted to include some other voices on the topic of Diversity. A few of our favorites include:
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How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
July 2018 - In this candid talk, inclusion advocate Janet Stovall shares a three-part action plan for creating workplaces where people feel safe and expected to be their unassimilated, authentic selves.
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3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace
June 2018 - Melinda Epler shares three actionable ways to support people who are underrepresented in the workplace. “There’s no magic wand for correcting diversity and inclusion,” she says. “Change happens one person at a time, one act at a time, one word at a time.”
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Google Custom Search Engines provide new and exciting ways to produce precise, repeatable searches - including some features unavailable on Google.com.
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Search for Women Presenters on SpeakerHub CSE
This custom search engine can’t be reproduced on Google.com, because it leverages metatags (more:p:metatags-personGender, if you’d like to try creating your own version) which can only be targeted in CSEs. Try any keywords you want: the only results will be for female-identified profiles!
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Three Diversity Custom Searches
Monday, April 8th - Irina Shamaeva provides three brand new Google Custom Search engines to help make your Diversity Sourcing efforts more productive. We included one above as our CSE of the week, and the others are equally useful!
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10 Diversity and Inclusion Resources
Friday, April 5th - As part of a series of articles highlighting the critical role Diversity plays in the South Bend — Elkhart Regional Economic Development strategy, Bethany Hartley shares her top 10 D&I resources.
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What We’re Reading: The Second Edition of The B Corp Handbook
Thursday, April 4th - The B-Lab Blog highlights how the latest edition of the B-Corp handbook has updated its focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The B-Corp initiative strives to promote “net positive impact” for businesses across every conceivable measure, and their handbook lays out a guide for companies to be a positive force in the world.
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How Can We Ensure Diversity In The Workplace?
Wednesday, April 3rd - Good.co CEO Samar Birwadker discusses the importance of both demographic and cognitive diversity in this article.
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Achieving workplace diversity through Design Thinking
Tuesday, April 2nd - David Kubovsky presents a research-backed approach to applying the principles of product design to Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. We’re big fans of adopting strategies from other disciplines into talent acquisition,
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We’d love to hear from you! If you have something to share, a question, comment, or other feedback, please reply and let us know.
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