ARE YOU EXCLUDING TALENT?

Bindi Dholakia, CPsychol

Objectives

Explore how your recruitment process could unintentionally exclude talent. 

Understand what interventions or changes may be required to ensure robustness and fairness.

Selection Criteria

Are your criteria/competencies relevant and inclusive?

Could the language you use unintentionally turn off prospective applicants?

Example 1

Minimum requirement: 2:1 degree, any discipline

Duration: 2 years

Starting Salary: £25,000 plus a £2,500 graduate allowance

Location: National mobility required

Example 2

Graduate Programme Minimum criteria:

At least a 2:1 degree classification in any discipline

We expect a minimum of 2As and 1B at A-Level

B in GCSE Maths and English

Geographically mobile

Example 3

“Mumbles, stumbles, and speaks unclearly”.

“Speaks very clearly and articulately during the entire interview”

Website

What information do you include?

Who is featured on your website?

Is there a disabled graduate profile?

Example 4

Meet our graduates

There’s no better way to find out what our graduate scheme is really like than by hearing what people on the scheme have to say about it.

Watch four of our current graduates talking about the scheme:

Chris, James, Jen, Miranda

Application Process

Is your on-line application process fully accessible?

Do you screen graduates on a first come first served basis, or after a deadline?

Assessment Centres

Assessment Centre

Have you considered the micro-inequities in your AC process?

Extra time for exercises often means missing time away from the other graduates.

The lack of social interaction can hamper the performance of disabled graduates.

Unconscious/Implicit Bias

Research shows implicit bias is most prevalent for disability.

Making reasonable adjustments can reinforce unconscious bias from assessors.

Can lead to micro inequities in behaviour.

If you would like to talk to us further, please get in touch:

bindi@fairwaygroup.co.uk

Phone: 01235 868772, 07900 998376

www.fairwaygroup.co.uk