Best Practices in Recruiting Diverse Candidates

Presentation Title
Best Practices in Recruiting Diverse Candidates

Speaker Information
Cathlene Johnson, President of Recruitment Services, InTheGame, Inc. bio l email

Presentation Abstract
Most organizational diversity directives almost always include recruiting.  Despite the improved hiring environments, all companies continue to face challenges with sourcing and hiring diverse candidates. This presentation looks at the diversity challenge that many employers face when trying to find, recruit and hire diverse candidates. The workshop focuses on common recruiting practices that actually inhibit diverse hiring and best recruiting practices/solutions to overcome those obstacles to significantly improve your stream of diverse talent.

This workshop looks at the the following recruitment system and processes: 

• Development of Hiring Criteria
• Sourcing
• Development of a Diversity Recruiting Strategy
• Development of inclusive interviewing techniques

Additionally, the workshop ask recruiters to look at themselves from the following perspectives:

• Diversity Awareness
• Recruiting Skills

Workshop Objectives

• Understand the strengths and limitations of using different recruiting practices when trying to recruit a diverse candidates pool. 
• Examine recruiting best practices/solutions to improve diverse hiring objectives.
• Learn how to identify diversity specific sourcing channels to improve diverse candidate pools.
• Develop a diversity recruiting strategy with short and long term objectives
• Learn to build recruiting relationships with diverse candidates and diverse organizations.
• Develop your recruiting skills to find, pitch, assess and close diverse candidates and close your hiring manager on selecting diverse candidates.

Workshop Length/Cost
Day and half day workshops.  Ideal for Twenty to twenty-five participants.  $3500.00 plus expense for out of town organizations. 

Designed For
Recruiters or Hiring managers responsible for recruiting and hiring a diverse employee base.  This workshop is for those recruiters who want to move beyond the basics and implement processes and strategies that will impact their diversity recruiting outcomes.