VERCIDA.com top 10 tips of inclusive recruitment:
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VERCIDA.com top 10 tips of inclusive recruitment:
- Re-evaluate job descriptions: Ensure that language and tone used in job descriptions are gender-neutral and avoid unconscious bias.
- Diversify your recruitment sources: Look beyond traditional sources and cast a wider net to reach a diverse pool of candidates.
- Offer flexible working options: Offer flexible working arrangements, such as remote work or flexible hours, to accommodate different needs and schedules.
- Ensure accessibility: Make sure that your recruitment process, including online forms and interview locations, are accessible to people with disabilities.
- Assess unconscious bias in the interview process: Train interviewers to be aware of and avoid unconscious bias during the recruitment process.
- Consider the whole person: Focus on skills, experience, and potential, rather than solely on traditional qualifications or background.
- Diversify your interview panel: Ensure that the interview panel represents a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
- Ask open-ended questions: Avoid questions that may limit a candidate’s response or that reinforce stereotypes, and instead ask open-ended questions that encourage self-expression.
- Use objective selection criteria: Establish clear, objective selection criteria to evaluate candidates and minimize the impact of unconscious bias.
- Foster a welcoming and inclusive work environment: Communicate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and provide a welcoming and inclusive work environment for all employees.
VERCIDA works with over one hundred clients who are committed to creating an inclusive work
environment. If you are an employer and interested in working with VERCIDA to promote your
diversity and inclusion initiatives and attract the best candidates, please email
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