Mitigating Bias in Talent Acquisition
Unlocking Opportunities for All Candidates
Ratings 4.45 / 5.00
What You Will Learn!
- Recognize the critical practice of mitigating bias and understand its significance in maintaining organizational innovation, brand reputation, and growth
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of bias mitigation in talent acquisition, from the initial decision to fill a position, through screening to interviewing
- Learn how inadvertent reinforcement of bias in one area can impact efforts in other areas of talent acquisition
- Evaluate the impact of recruitment measurements within your organization on bias in talent acquisition, and explore strategies to mitigate these effects
- Learn to address bias in outreach methods and referral systems already in place, ensuring a more inclusive and equitable talent pool
- Acquire the knowledge to purposefully design your professional network, both internally and externally, to enhance recruitment efforts and promote diversity
Description
Are you a leader responsible for acquiring and vetting talent and making hiring decisions in your organization? Are you eager to learn how to tap into a broader pool of well-matched candidates? Have you struggled with talent acquisition processes that fall short of growing the brand and its reputation? Have you felt that the hiring processes in your organization lack clarity, fairness, or agility? If so, then this course is designed for you.
In this course, you will:
Understand bias mitigation in talent acquisition comprehensively, from the decision to fill a position, to screening and vetting, to interviewing.
Recognize the role you can play in mitigating bias in hiring decisions.
Identify bias in hiring communication and practices.
Mitigating bias in talent acquisition can help organizations provide all candidates an equal opportunity to showcase their capabilities and show up at their best. While overhauling a process entirely on your own can be daunting and impractical, this course will equip you with the tools to navigate the hiring process and the decisions you are tasked with, enabling you to contribute to fairness and equity.
You will engage in practical exercises focused on discovery, review valuable resources, adapt language and tools, and examine certain mindset elements that could impact hiring decisions. These tools can be used independently and shared with others to enhance your influence and reputation within your organization.
Additionally, this course will provide you with techniques to practice bias mitigation in any context, offering you a new perspective on the talent acquisition process. With these insights, you will feel better prepared to commit to championing equity and inclusion in hiring and to seeking growth partners within your organization, to support you in translating these principles into action with a more significant impact.
Who Should Attend!
- Any mid-level leader or employee tasked with acquiring talent and vetting talent as part of their role or as part of a temporary assignment.
- Employees and leaders from Recruitment, Human Resources, HR Business Partners, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion champions who participate in hiring decisions and hiring committees.