Sally Rinehart

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Diversity in recruitment

Sally Rinehart

Recruitment Manager

WDS Limited


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Points today

Working with Management to identify critical target areas

for diversity

Attracting a broader range of candidates to your

organisation

Embedding your diversity strategy into the recruitment

process

Developing an effective targeted recruitment initiative


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Working with Management to identify critical

target areas for diversity

5 key points

Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a

particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs

Conversion refers to converting those who do not hold your

beliefs to hold your beliefs

Spreading the love refers to others practicing evangelism in

your absence

Implementing refers to the practice of implementation at the

coal face

Monitoring refers to the practice of ensuring the implementation

is maintained and improved upon


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How?

Speak in their language

Show the business case

Convince one by one

Find the champion

Build the relationship


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For example....Did you know?

By 2018 we will be at 2 in 5 people in paid work,

currently at 4 in 5 ( at current workforce participation

rates) ageing workforce, etc.

By 2020, we will be at 1 in 5. this means we either

A) we can all start paying around 67 70% tax B) look for a new segment of the workforce to share the

load.

By the way, women make up 5% of the workforce in the

resources industry, make up 50.13% of the population

and have a 76% participation rate overall - now that is

something to work with


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Attracting a broader range of candidates to your

organisation

5 key points

If you go shopping, shop with knowledge

Dont take your own thoughts as the truth

Just because others arent doesnt mean you shouldnt

Look in all the hard to find places network! Dont promise the world and deliver, well, not much

Expectations not delivered will mean failure pretty much within the

first 12 months


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How?

What is that the diversity candidates do?

Where might they be hiding?

What are they reading?

Where are they going?

How do we make them feel comfortable?


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So, why am I convinced this is right?

Women in underground mining project

First of its kind in Australia

Ground breaking less than .1% females

Going to be brilliant!!!

Had a client (corporate) on side Got commitment

Full recruitment process 240 women want to go underground

(really??)

Site management said no.

Project still waiting.....


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Embedding your diversity strategy into the

recruitment process

5 key points

Understand what you are trying to achieve back to language

Interview formats that are the same old, same old, wont give you

a different result

Turn off the subjective, turn on the objective

Whoever come up with behavioural techniques, forgot to

mention there is no one general fit

Practice positive discrimination it really is okay


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Developing an effective targeted recruitment

initiative

The really nice thing about not planning is that failure

comes as complete surprise and is not preceded by long

periods of worry and depression.


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Treat every initiative as a project.

Determine objective

Plan/research

Task/activity

Process map to get clear objectives

Implementation of process

Monitor success

Monitor stats on success


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The success story

Indigenous women in hard hats first of its kind in

Queensland

Full training program from culture to discrimination to

financial to family support Project managed cultural training both for participants

and for employees

Advertising on indigenous TV/networks/indigenous

community newsletters

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