The Benefits Of A Diverse Workforce
The concept of a having a diverse workforce revolves around the notion that a companies employee’s should represent the overall makeup of the society it belongs to. Your team should be comprised of a range of people belonging to different races, religions, sexual orientations, socio-economic levels and identifying gender.
Diversity as a concept can be divided into two categories: inherent and acquired diversity.
Inherent diversity: this type of diversity revolves around demographical components like race, gender, age, and any other characteristics that are inherent to a person.
Acquired diversity: this type of diversity surrounds things that can develop and/or evolve over time such as – skills, education, knowledge, values and experiences.
Recruiting diversely is vital for any business, no matter who they are. We recruit candidates utilising a process that is bias-free. Our candidates are put forward for job opportunities by merit-based recruitment processes but we structure these processes to ensure all candidates have an equal opportunity.
Why is having a diversity recruiting strategy important?
Workforce diversity is a fast-growing trend in the business world and with good reason. In addition to being a good moral choice, diversity recruiting also provides many tangible benefits for performance, innovation, and productivity. Some of the known perks include:
– A broader range of skills and experience on your team
– Increased language and cultural awareness
– Larger and more varied candidate pools;
Diversity in viewpoints allows team members to debate the merits of different methods and come to the best possible conclusion using a much wider range of information.
How to recruit for a diverse team
When trying to better a part of your organisation, it’s vital that the following questions are answered:
- What are our goals?
- How will I measure our success?
- How will I measure my diversity recruiting?
Talk with your team and determine what it is that everyone wants to achieve. Do you want to hire more women to technical roles? Fab! Gather the exact metrics around how many women you currently employ in those roles, and set a goal of how much you want that to increase by.
Increasing diversity in candidate sourcing
A great way to ensure that you’re hiring a diverse range of people is to make sure there’s diversity in who is applying to your positions to start with. Begin by hiring the right talent agents who are able to spot top-tier talent a mile off. At Tech Intellect we immerse ourselves in our clients organisation culture. We do more than come in and recruit. We learn who you are, what your long and short term goals are and lay a plan on how to achieve them based on who we recruit.
We are passionate about recruiting diversely, come and have a chat about how we can help you diversify your workforce.
