5 Ways to Attract Great Diverse Talent

Businesses hire the best of talent to complete work. The plan is to ensure that you get the right hires and put them to work. With a bad hire, your work is not being delivered. What’s worse is that the productivity of others will get affected. Also, a bad hire can also lead to a legal battle. This can prove costly and be just the start of something much worse. These legal issues damages employee morale. This is why companies need to have an effective approach to hiring and recruiting. Performance-based hiring is a key approach that every company should adopt.

To hire only the best, you need to create compelling job descriptions that performance driven with the use of networking concepts and advanced marketing. This will help you find the best candidates and by adopting evidence based interviewing techniques to help with hiring decisions and get better candidates.

You should know that performance-based hiring systems are completely different from traditional hiring and recruiting. This is where questions arise about whether employers should adopt performance based hiring to grow their business. This complies completely with statutes, law principals and regulations that regulate the workplace. So, how does this work, you ask?

Here are 5 ways that will help you attract amazing diverse talent:

1. If you create a properly formatted performance profile then you can identify and document the best functions of the job instead of the regular traditional positions. This will allow you to have reasonable accommodation of differently abled people and for people with diverse cultures.

2. Ensure that you keep a focus on the criteria of the first year and beyond. This opens the door for military, minority and disabled candidates that would usually have less than traditional mix of experiences and you would support their efforts.

3. Next, you should do performance-based interviews that ensures that there is proper focus and structure and minimizes the risk of the interviewer into inquiring into things that should not be asked. With performance-based interviews, there is a common methodology that is used and the candidates would be fairly compared.

4. Hiring a diverse set of candidates can be challenging for an interviewer. You should hire with your head to control any bias. Use the Plus or Minus Reversal Technique to reduce biases and promote greater diversity in hiring.

5. Hire top talent with performance-based hiring. Since the process is useful, it is different for various jobs. There are some jobs that do not need performance hiring but employers need to be consistent with their hiring process. This is important when hiring for similar positions but you should not be tied down to a single process.

These five ways are sure to help you get and attract top talent and diverse candidates to your business. All you need to ensure is to religiously follow these steps in order to give candidates of different backgrounds a fair chance.

Arnold Consulting Private Limited believes in giving the best in class hiring and recruitment across all sectors. As a global recruitment company, we believe that everyone should have a fair chance in building their career and doing well.

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