Industry Research: Are You Wasting Precious Diversity Recruiting Resources?

Ensuring workplace diversity isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s good for your bottom line. Companies with a diverse workforce are seen as a more desirable employer, outperform their competitors and achieve greater profits.

How does an organization create a diverse workforce? While there are many diversity job boards and websites, hiring for diversity involves choosing the right recruitment sources to post open positions. Finding a diverse workforce means having a smart diversity recruiting strategy in place, which includes outreach management. 

Begin by Assessing Your Current and Desired Diversity 

Look to your talent pipeline metrics to evaluate your company’s diversity efforts. Examine your company today and compare it to a point in time in the past, along with your competition and job market. That information will help you identify where your organization can make improvements.

Begin by looking at the number of diversity candidates applying to positions.

Are You Wasting Resources?

Next, explore how many diversity candidates make it to first- and second-round of interviews. Examine:
 

• How many apply?
• How many are offered positions?
• How many accept those roles?
• Are there certain stages in your selection process where many diversity candidates fall off?
• What are the common reasons diversity candidates are rejected?

This will help uncover areas for improvement in your hiring diversity process.

Turning Diversity Hiring Objectives into Reality

Companies only have so much HR and talent recruitment bandwidth. The key to success in today’s diversity-focused culture is to develop an outreach management strategy that brings together vetted resources to create lasting relationships and deliver candidates to your doors. 

It’s impossible for companies to find, monitor and post jobs to every diversity website. They need a way to find the right places to post their jobs and even more importantly, employers need to connect to organizations that work directly with their target demographic groups.

LocalJobNetwork’s diversity solution does just that. It eliminates the complex and time-consuming task of having to find organizations in your recruiting area and making the connections needed to develop a partnership with community organizations in the area. 

With LocalJobNetwork, employers can easily access a directory of 20,000+ community organizations that serve target groups such as women, minorities, veterans, LGBTQA, and individuals with disabilities. These organizations partner closely with job-seekers in their target groups, so they are an ideal conduit to diversity candidates. LocalJobNetwork also connects you with the right contacts at each of these organizations responsible for employment services. 

The Evidence Is Clear 

Companies that focus on increasing diversity in all ranks of their organization perform better. With a diverse workforce, companies find unconventional solutions to problems and generate more and better ideas – and as a result, see an impact on their bottom line. 

Improve Your Organization’s Diversity Recruitment

• Meet your diversity recruiting objectives
• Save time
• Reduce your recruitment budget

LocalJobNetwork’s Diversity Recruiting Solutions saves you time and money by streamlining your outreach efforts and helps you build a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Katie Saba is a Product Marketing Manager at the LocalJobNetwork™. Based on her conversations and research, she produces webinars and writes articles on diversity and other employment-related topics to guide employers, employees and job seekers in their professional endeavors.  Visit https://localjobnetwork.com/  Connect Katie Saba Follow @theLJN