What characteristics should people avoid when recruiting employees to ensure workplace diversity?
What characteristics should people avoid when recruiting employees to ensure workplace diversity?
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When recruiting employees for diversity, people should avoid selecting candidates who have certain characteristics in common. This could include only looking at applicants of a particular nationality, ethnicity, age group, educational background or occupation. Additionally, they should also consider the wider community and actively search for candidates from diverse and typically underrepresented backgrounds. They must also ensure that their selection procedures are fair and unbiased and avoid selecting the candidate who looks similar to already existing employees or managers within the organization.
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What characteristics should people avoid when recruiting employees to ensure workplace diversity?
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People should avoid criteria or measures when recruiting employees that reinforce existing gender, racial and other identity inequalities. For example, relying on applicants’ educational backgrounds and past job experiences alone could lead to predominantly White, economically privileged individuals being hired. Additionally, it’s important not to focus on arbitrary technical requirements of a job that are based on previous experience — employers can often gain the needed skills on the job — instead evaluating broader qualities like critical thinking or problem solving skills which everyone has regardless of their prior experience. Other potentially discriminatory measures people should avoid would include asking questions about an applicant's marital status, parental plans or personal views about religion and politics. Ensuring recruitment does not perpetuate existing systems of discrimination is key for protecting workplace diversity for all applicants.
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