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There is an increasing emphasis given to diversity in the workplace these days, pushing hiring managers to focus more on Diversity and Inclusion Hiring (D&I). But what exactly do we mean by DnI Hiring as it is commonly known within the recruitment fraternity?

Simply put, DnI Hiring is nothing but a recruiter intentionally considering candidates from different walks of life with an attempt to ensure that the hiring process is all inclusive and free from barriers and biases that are based on a candidate’s race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion and other characteristics. Although it sounds do able but in truth accomplishing the task is a different story altogether. The reason being that not only do you need to include the underrepresented workforce but also ensure that you on board the right talent within the specific talent market and therein lies the difficulty we are all so familiar with as fellow Talent Acquisitionists.

But don’t be discouraged just yet as we @SourcingAdda, understand this challenge and are ever ready to offer solutions that can make a world of difference to assist you in meeting your requirements. Hence, upon our members request we decided to take the topic, Challenges & Strategies in Diversity and Inclusion Hiring that was suggested by two of our member’s each from the Pune & Bangalore group i.e. Sonam & Paramveer. Mentioned below are possible solutions and strategies that can be worth your while to read and in so doing you can uncover for yourself what we discovered

Challenges & Strategies in Diversity and Inclusion Hiring
Challenges & Strategies in Diversity and Inclusion Hiring
Challenges & Strategies in Diversity and Inclusion Hiring

The discussion above clearly focusses on the goal of D&I hiring which is to make sure that hiring is done by reducing biases that may exist in sourcing, screening, and shortlisting candidates. The insights shared were interesting and are instrumental in achieving Diversity and Inclusion Hiring (D&I) success. And the strategies implemented may ignore or discriminate against qualified, diverse and exceptional candidates therefore identifying these aspects is of high priority to ensure D&I hiring is done without any biases.

Also the views expressed help you get a fair idea of the common challenges most organisations face. It even gives you solutions on how to overcome them when trying to deploy strategies to meet Diversity and Inclusion Hiring (D&I) needs.  To highlight just a few suggestions that cropped up; organisations need to formulate appropriate policies like POSH to avoid sexual harassment in the workplace. For the night shift workforce you can have security in place and trustworthy personnel at all times. Having a crache facility within the companies premises improves the chances of single parents opting in to your offer due to the convenience and other perks like ESIC, EPF, Food Coupons to the in house canteen facility if applicable that you offer. Creating opportunities in the top Leadership for Diversity can scale up your organisations profits thus improve your RoI drastically and be a success. All of these aspects together can improve the offer to joining ratio for these segments of individuals thus enabling you to have Diversity and Inclusion within your organisation.

If interested to know more about the repercussions of insisting on Immediate Joinees then WhatsApp Group Chat Consequences of Hiring Managers Insisting on Immediate Joiner would be an ideal read. And if you wish to up skill or add to your learning then be sure to get yourself more involved by

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