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Need an account? Click here to register. Forgot password? Click here.Yes, indeed: our talks on diversity and inclusion in recruiting here at The Intersect Group continue. We’ve discussed – and written about – how “looking” for “cultural fit” can lead to perpetuating unconscious bias in hiring, as well as looking at what inclusion really is and how companies can become more inclusive. Now it’s time …
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We believe skilled talent such as IT and accounting/finance professionals will be difficult to find, let alone hire, for the coming months, possibly even well into next year. We’re not alone in this: The IT talent shortage isn’t just because of the current situation the country is in due to the pandemic: a software developer …
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We’ve written extensively these past few months in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series on the importance of DEI in the workplace. We’ve also written on how companies can become more diverse. But we haven’t touched on how to bring more diversity into your personal life. Until now. In fact, if we increase diversity …
Now that companies throughout the country have started taking diversity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace seriously for several months, we thought it time to offer up some DEI tactics and strategies that many companies have found to work. The first step: setting goals What is it you actually want to accomplish by becoming more …
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As we continue our internal discussions on DEI, our series on the topic has been digging ever deeper into how companies can become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We know that nothing changes at a company unless the Executive Leadership Team embraces the change wholeheartedly. So, heads up CEOs: How you can take the lead on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Make it …
Many companies have put a huge emphasis on making sure they train employees in diversity and inclusion. A very good thing and LONG overdue. This “extra” push has been at the forefront of many an HR department’s and C-suite’s efforts since at least this past summer, and now six months in, it’s understandable that some …
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We have a question for you. Don’t think, just answer: when you think about diversity and inclusion in sourcing/recruiting, do older job candidates come to mind? Probably not. But, it should. Due to the many awareness efforts that have recently swept the nation, many employers have taken on the major task of entirely rethinking their hiring and sourcing efforts, working on the unconscious biases …
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Age discrimination, unfortunately, is rampant. As much as we wish it weren’t so, here’s proof. ProPublica.org, an independent, non-profit investigative journalism website, published a story in December 2018 that reported that 56 percent of people older than 50 are being “pushed out’ of “longtime” jobs “before they choose to retire.” Just one in 10 of …
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Yes, indeed: our talks on diversity and inclusion in recruiting here at The Intersect Group continue. We’ve discussed – and written about – how “looking” for “cultural fit” can lead to perpetuating unconscious bias in hiring, as well as looking at what inclusion really is and how companies can become more inclusive. Now it’s time …