#005 Diversity Hiring: What & Why

Have you or a hiring manager ever planned to hire candidates from specific colleges again and again? For most, those colleges have great success rates that may reduce the risk of bad hiring, but I wondered how knowingly or unknowingly bias creeps in.

Some other bias situations are looking for only male candidates, young employees, or someone with the exact skills and attitude as that of the replaced employee and so forth.

If that happens with you or your hiring managers, this article will help you gain insights about diversity hiring.

Research has proven that 77% of talent specialists believe diversity will play an important role in the recruiting process post-COVID-19.

Therefore, it is crucial to understand the need for hiring diverse candidates for a company's success.

So, as always, first thing’s first: what is diversity recruiting all about?

According to SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management), diversity recruitment is the process of hiring qualified candidates based on their skills, which are essential for performing the job regardless of their age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or personal characteristics.

That brings in different perspectives, skills, and industry experience, which in turn broadens views and leads to innovative decision-making ability and higher productivity and profitability for any organization.

It is important to remember that diversity hiring is an initiative of not just talent acquisition, but also across all the employees of the company, too.

The importance of diversity hiring should be communicated from leadership down to the interns or juniors for faster success.

Next: why do we really need to hire diverse employees?

There are three key stakeholders who benefit the most out of diverse hiring. I would recommend having some targets around diversity hiring for stakeholders to make them accountable.

The following are the stakeholders involved:

Talent Acquisition team: Recruiters work towards overcoming the shortage of talents by building a diverse pool of qualified candidates.

Hiring Managers and Team Members: They gain a variety of new ideas and knowledge that bring in creativity and productivity within the team. A diverse employee may add value to the team.

Company as a whole: Eventually, this leads to an increase in the bottom line of a company.

If you still have any questions regarding diversity hiring, reach out to me at nikita.mehrotra@therecruitmentinsights.com .

I would love to help:)

Nikita