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Words to Avoid in Job Descriptions
When it comes to writing job descriptions, organizations can better attract a diverse pool of applicants by using inclusive, jargon-free, and non-technical language. Here are some common phrases to avoid.
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How Your Job Descriptions Might Be Excluding Women
Tremendous progress has been made toward achieving workplace equality for women, but the work isn’t complete. One contributing factor is the way employers word job descriptions. Find out why and learn how we can start to fix this problem.
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What is Toxic Masculinity?
Toxic masculinity is associated with a winner-take-all mentality, emotional toughness, physical stamina, and sabotaging colleagues or coworkers to get ahead. This video will help you understand the meaning of this phrase and why it matters in the workplace.
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Inclusive Onboarding: Best Practices
Learn how to build a welcoming and diverse workplace for new employees through inclusive onboarding. Creating an inclusive onboarding process ensures a healthy climate for new recruits to flourish, feel accepted, and grow within a company.
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How Women Managers Benefit the Workplace
Men in top leadership roles outnumber women by a ratio of two to one. In order to achieve gender equality in the workplace, women need greater access to management positions. Here’s a breakdown of the benefits of hiring women managers.
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Stay Interviews: What, When, How
The stay interview is a great way to better understand the goals of your star employees, and what you can do as a manager to help support their success and retention. Learn the what, when, and how of stay interviews.
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Common Hiring Biases
Countless studies have shown that diverse workplaces are more profitable, show higher long-term valuation, and possess better decision-making capabilities. To ensure that your practices are conducive to diverse hiring, it’s important to minimize biases. Here are a few to watch out for.
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How to Write Inclusive Job Descriptions
Finding diverse candidates for your talent pool can be difficult for a variety of reasons. In addition to expanding your network, think about how inclusive your job descriptions are so that diverse talent isn’t deterred from applying for your open positions.
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What Does it Mean to Be a Cultural Add vs. a Cultural Fit for an Organization?
Cultural fits were - and still are - what many hiring managers looked for to fill open positions. However, the focus is now shifting to cultural adds. Learn what a cultural addition is and how they'll benefit your organization.
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How Organizations Can Make a Great First Impression with Talent
It’s important that organizations invest in optimizing their first touchpoints with job seekers. Or, they risk losing out on great talent. Here’s how to ensure your organization is making the best possible first impression and attracting great talent, even in the most competitive talent markets.
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The Top 5 Reasons People Stay in Jobs
Employee turnover is expensive, and replacing employees is a time-consuming process. To mitigate turnover and increase retention, you’ll need to understand why people stay in jobs and bring those practices into your own organization. By doing so, you’ll save time, money, and effort.
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Types of Toxic Work Environments
Your company culture is important to the productivity, engagement, loyalty, and overall well-being of your employees. Toxic, negative, and lackluster cultures have a detrimental impact on everyone. Here, we’ll discuss the 2 most common types of toxic work environments.
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What is a Hostile Work Environment?
Focus on the variety of factors that can make a work environment hostile or abusive. Find out why harassment is an illegal form of employment discrimination and what your company can do to prevent it, address it, and bring it to a halt.
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What is Office Housework?
Women were restricted to performing domestic duties for much of human history, and there are still remnants of this system in today’s workplaces. Office housework, which includes tasks like tidying up and taking notes during meetings, disproportionately falls to female employees.
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How Can We Make Our Recruiting Practices More Latine-Inclusive?
Discover best practices for expanding the diversity of your team by making your recruiting process more inclusive of Hispanic and Latine people. Confirm the benefits of strengthening your organization’s connections with the fast-growing market of Latine consumers and community stakeholders.
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How Should Organizations Approach Ageism in the Recruiting Process?
Age bias, just like other forms of bias, can easily and quickly seep into the recruiting process if you don't take steps to mitigate it. Learn a few easy ways to ensure your hiring processes are fair for people of all ages.
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3 DEI-Related Interview Questions for Job Candidates
By approaching your interviews with a DEI lens, you can learn more about how each candidate views differing perspectives, change, collaboration, and more. In this video, we discuss three potential questions you can ask in order to evaluate a person’s openness to DEI values.
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What are the Costs of a Negative Workplace Culture?
Negative workplace cultures take a toll on the health and well-being of all employees, and the financial success of the business. Let’s explore a few costs associated with toxic workplaces and how to avoid them.
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To Combat Bias, Should More Than One Recruiter Review Resumes for the Same Role?
Learn how to mitigate bias in the resume review process, either by audits or period check-ins, and why it's important to do so.
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How to Deliver Negative Feedback
Providing employees with direct and honest feedback, even when it’s negative, is a crucial part of their professional development and your success as a business. Understand how to deliver negative feedback in the most constructive way.
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The Value of Lived Experience
Lived experience is the idea that people bring deep value and insight to organizations based on the factors that make them distinct. Different perspectives merge profit and purpose by utilizing and learning from people’s unique viewpoints.
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How Can Job Applications Become More Digitally Accessible?
Learn how to make your job applications more digitally accessible, which in turn, makes them more accessible to all people.
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Should There Be Payment for Test Projects That Are Part of the Hiring Process?
To ensure equity, you'll want to compensate job candidates for their time spent on test projects.
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How Can HR Support Transitioning Employees?
Learn how HR can best support transitioning employees by helping navigate healthcare benefits, conversations with coworkers, and any barriers they may face.