HR Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality and Diverse Talent
HR Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality and Diverse Talent
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
It's more important than ever to hire highly qualified and diverse talent who will provide positive change and success to your company. As a recruiter, hiring manager, or leader it is your responsibility to mitigate bias in the recruitment process, and incorporate inclusive, competency-based hiring practices. In this course, inclusive hiring expert and certified HR professional Mercedes Swan, shares her expertise in building inclusive recruitment processes and specific strategies so that you can employ to measure success. Mercedes starts by sharing the importance of inclusive hiring, and how unconscious bias impacts the process. She then walks through the best strategies to implement inclusive hiring. Finally, she provides the best approach to ensure that your recruitment process continues to ripen. After this course, you will have a list of strategies, resources, and options to help you attract and hire superb and diverse talent.
Syllabus
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Start with inclusivity Inclusive practices are essential to recruiting high quality and diverse candidates to your organization.After this lesson, you'll be able to recognize how inclusivity leads to an equitable recruitment process. 3m
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Impact of unconscious bias Unconscious bias can impact all stages of the recruitment process and limit the diversity of your candidate pipeline. 2m
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The advantage of diversity Employers who foster a diverse workforce reap the benefits of diversity of thought and experience. 1m
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Competency based hiring An effective and inclusive full-cycle recruitment model that focuses on competency-based hiring is essential for hiring diverse talent. 2m
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Developing the candidate profile Developing the candidate profile allows the selection panel to understand the competencies they should be looking for in high-quality, diverse candidates. 2m
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Removing barriers Artificial barriers in the candidate profile can limit an organization's ability to hire and retain diverse talent. 3m
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Creating inclusive sourcing strategies The best talent may not be actively looking for new opportunities. 2m
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Impactful branding Positioning your company as an employer that diverse talent want to work for is important for attracting top talent. 2m
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Inclusive job descriptions Poorly written job descriptions is one way to reduce the the diversity and quality of an applicant pool. 2m
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Showcase your commitment to diversity Diverse candidates want to know that your company values diversity, equity, inclusion. 2m
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Mitigating personal bias Individuals involved in the recruitment and hiring process have a responsibility to be aware of their personal unconscious bias and employ strategies to mitigate it. 2m
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Building diverse selection panels Implementing a selection panel of diverse groups positively impacts the assessment of candidates. 2m
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Behavior-based interview questions Behavioral-based interview questions allow selection panels to mitigate bias by assessing candidates based on past experience and successes.After this lesson, you'll be able to write behavioral-based interview questions. 2m
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Evaluation tools Competency-based evaluation tools keep the selection panel accountable to the candidate profile which mitigates bias. 2m
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Incorporating a diversity advocate A trained and politically savvy diversity advocate can help to mitigate bias whenever it arises. 1m
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Evaluate the process The process of finding, attracting and retaining diverse and high-quality talent requires continuous evaluation and improvement of the recruitment process. 2m
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Strategize and pivot After the recruitment process is completed and evaluated, the search panel should consider how to implement strategies to improve and optimize the process.After this lesson, you'll be able to identify strategies to improve the recruitment process at the end of each recruitment. 2m
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Inclusive hiring journey Mitigating bias and integrating inclusive practices is a process. 1m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Mercedes Swan
Mercedes Swan is a talent acquisition leader, career coach, and a champion for inclusive hiring. She is the principal and founder of HR for Millennials and Nychted, professional training and coaching services for inclusive, passion-centered career seekers. Her vast experience has given Mercedes the knack to build processes, systems, and resources that lead to successful outcomes for employers and candidates. Mercedes is a Certified Human Resources Professional (SHRM-CP) and she holds a Master’s of Science in Management from the University of Florida. She believes that everyone is responsible for inclusive practices and diversity in the workplace, and that intentional implementation of competency-based strategies leads to more accessibility and equity in the workplace.
Mercedes Swan
Inclusive Hiring Expert, Career Coach
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