While hiring a more diverse team is a worthwhile aspiration, reaching this goal requires more than identifying this need. To ensure an organization is finding diverse, qualified candidates, it needs to set specific goals and metrics to track the success of its efforts.
For example, an organization seeking to build a more diverse hiring process may begin by analyzing past hiring decisions to determine the areas needing change. The talent acquisition leadership may also use a recruiting organization specializing in identifying and fixing problems that may be preventing a diverse hiring process.
To find diverse talent, many organizations need to rethink their hiring practices. It starts with expanding the source of your candidates so that you’re not drawing from the same candidate pool repeatedly. Eliminating unconscious bias in your screening and hiring process is also essential to finding diverse talent. Finally, setting measurable and concrete diversity and inclusion goals holds your organization to account for its efforts.