12 inclusive hiring practices & outsourcing your hiring process

This week, we’ll talk about Inclusive Hiring. In case you’re overwhelmed with all the Inclusive Hiring guides out there, we’re happy to share with you the 12 best practices which will help you kick-start your Inclusive Hiring journey. Besides, we’ll discuss the benefits that outsourcing can bring to your hiring process. Enjoy!

Transcript

Today, we’ll talk about outsourcing your hiring process and list the 12 inclusive practices your hiring team should have adopted like… yesterday?

Welcome back to The Tea on Recruiting, where we share insightful and thought-provoking content that can help you shape your recruiting career. Let’s check this out!

Benefits of outsourcing your hiring process

Perhaps you have a role that’s difficult to fill or there are some tasks that your team needs help with? So the article we read suggested that to be competitive, organizations should consider outsourcing their recruitment process. And I know that those of you who work for agencies right now are popping bottles of champagne and screaming and jumping on their desk, and it’s mayhem. But the ones who are working as Talent Acquisition professionals, please… stop crying into that bucket – Don’t be scared! Don’t be sad! I’m sure there is a way to flip this and make sure that you can use it to your advantage. So why should a company outsource their hiring process?

First of all, agencies have more exposure and experience which will let you get the talent you want and maybe deserve.

Point number two is amazing ads. So agencies can use applied and tested methods that can attract and convince the top talent you want to come work with you.

Three: They deliver great Candidate Experience throughout the hiring process. So for the Talent Acquisition professionals, you might consider asking them to help you out in those areas in which you find yourself being weaker.

Four: Agencies can help you increase your Diversity. People from different backgrounds working together can achieve that perfect balance for creativity, and agencies know where to look for skilled talent from all backgrounds.

Now, are you ready for today’s second piece of content?

Inclusive Hiring

Inclusive hiring translates into lower legal risks, and it preserves your reputation, but most importantly, it’s the most ethical way to hire. That’s why we’ve read “12 Inclusive Hiring Practices Your Organization Should Implement”. These are some things you can do to make your hiring process more inclusive:

It all starts from defining what Diversity and Inclusion mean to your organization. Diversity can be based on different types of people and intersectionality within those types. It doesn’t end with gender and race. There’s also generational, veteran status, neurodiversity ability, and more factors that you need to consider.

Point number two is to write inclusive job descriptions. Now, if you’re a real one, you’ll remember our episode on hiring for Diversity. And if you’re new here, you’re more than welcome to watch it. We’re going to be linking it down below. I’m sure it’s going to change your life forever.

Point number three is to have a career site that’s accessible to all candidates. So why don’t you like ditch those stock photos and instead use pictures of your actual team? And then you can use transcripts and close captions for your video and audio files and add alternative text for your images.

Point number four is to develop your EEOC statement in which you declare that you follow their guidelines.

Five: Expand where you advertise your job postings.

Six: You need to make Inclusion a part of your employer brand.

Seven is to provide your employees with vertical and horizontal career opportunities.

Eight: Use a standardized job interview process for all applicants.

Nine: Establish diverse interview panels.

Ten: Let recruitment technology help you.

Eleven: Watch out for algorithm bias.

Twelve: Measure your inclusive hiring program.

And now onto the CandE Crash.

CandE Crash

You know how it goes, the more barbaric your treatment of candidates, the more demonic the reviews on your Glassdoor page. Shout out to a company we won’t name. Let’s read this:

“It was the worst interview that I already had so far. It was conducted by phone for about 15 minutes. First, the interviewer was coughing all the time during my answers. It can happen, and I understand. However, regular people usually apologize and give time to answer again or ask to repeat the response. I felt she couldn’t listen to my responses because she was very impatient. She was extremely impolite, changing questions when I haven’t finished answers, cutting me off at all times and rushing me.

In the end, what I was supposed to make questions to know a little bit more about their company. I asked about the culture and what she liked most about working there. She was arrogant, suggesting me to have a look at the reviews on Glassdoor or reading about the company’s culture to find out more about them. At that point, I gave up doing more questions.

After a few days, she called me to inform the result. I said that I couldn’t talk at the moment because I was going to work. But she insisted on giving me the feedback very quickly. I was on the lift and the only thing I could hear was that I wasn’t approved and something else that I couldn’t listen to.”

This is shameful. Why do you have to be so rude? Was there a song “Why you got to be so rudeeeeeeeeeee?”

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