Guide: 20 actions to diversify the workforce
- Author: Stephanie Sparks / Lever
- Published in: September 2023
- Keywords: Practical guide, recruitment, hiring, communication, wellbeing, inclusion, diversity, organisational structure
This is a short guide with concrete steps to take to create a more diverse workforce and enhance the wellbeing and employee experience.
The guide was written by Lever, a company that programmes software for managing applicants and recruitment processes. They have a focus on DEI in recruitment.
The guide targets larger or more established organisations, but the majority of the actions it outlines can be beneficial to most organisations, and especially actions dealing with organisational culture might be relevant to smaller organisations or those in the start-up phase.
The guide suggests practical and concrete steps, some of which can be implemented immediately in a recruitment process. Others require a more internal process, for example looking at the parental leave policy and how it applies to same-sex couples, different family structures and adoptive parents.
The guide is short and to the point, which means it is easy to understand, and it is easy to start implementing suggestions, but they are lacking in nuance and depth in some areas. That means the guide can serve as a good starting point but should not be relied upon as the only source of knowledge when trying to diversify the organisation.