Inclusive recruitment benefits, insights, and top tips

Is inclusive recruitment something you’re looking to implement? Here’s all you need to know, from the inclusive hiring experts.

Did you know that only 30% of UK employers are completely committed to having an inclusive and diverse workforce? Unfortunately, despite being an increasingly important topic, many employers don’t have the right foundations to implement inclusivity as effectively as they’d like.

The good news is that inclusive recruitment is a great starting point for any inclusivity initiative.

To help you introduce inclusivity from the ground up, let’s break down what inclusive recruitment is, why it matters, and how to make your organisation’s own hiring practices more inclusive.

• What is inclusive recruitment?
• What is bias in recruitment?
• The benefits of inclusive recruitment.
• Making your hiring process more inclusive.

What is inclusive recruitment?

Inclusive recruitment is an approach to hiring that aims to attract candidates from diverse backgrounds. The process helps to promote equal opportunities for professionals from demographics that are typically underrepresented in particular industry sectors or job roles.

It involves designing recruitment processes and policies that minimise bias (more on this in a moment). In doing so, organisations get one massive step closer to fostering a truly diverse, inclusive, and representative workforce.

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What is bias in recruitment?

Bias in recruitment refers to the often-unconscious prejudices or preferences that influence hiring decisions. These biases can be based on various factors, including a candidate’s identity, age, background, or shared interests, and more often than not, they affect candidates from minority social groups.

Whether you’re aware of them or not, biases within a recruitment process will naturally lead to unfair treatment of candidates.

That’s why it’s so important to identify and actively prevent these biases. Not only will doing so help you create a fairer, more equitable recruitment process, but it will also bring significant benefits to your business!

The benefits of inclusive recruitment

Here are just some of the advantages your organisation could benefit from when it adopts a more inclusive approach to recruitment:

• Deepen Your Talent Pools: By actively seeking out candidates from diverse backgrounds, you could gain access to much wider talent pools. So, you’ll be more likely to come across people with the skillsets and creative approaches that your organisation needs.
• Supercharge Your Decision-Making: Diverse teams make better decisions faster. And why? Because different perspectives mean there’s more information on the table, helping to avoid blind spots and groupthink.
• Boost Engagement and Retention: Inclusivity in the workplace creates a sense of belonging for employees, leading to higher job satisfaction and reduced employee turnover rates.
• Encourage Innovation: More diverse teams encourage an environment of continuous learning, growth, and idea-sharing, putting them in a strong position to innovate and adapt to changing market conditions.
• Up Your Money-Making Power: As a direct result, companies that focus on inclusivity in the recruitment process and beyond are more likely to outperform their competitors financially.

Making your hiring process more inclusive

It’s one thing to understand the need for (and benefits of!) inclusive recruitment. But it’s another thing entirely to implement it within your own organisation.

That’s where we come in.

Our hiring processes have been designed with diversity, equity and inclusion at their core, and we’re passionate about helping organisations like yours become truly inclusive.

Here’s what we offer our client partners as standard:

• An in-depth briefing before we begin our search, to understand exactly what your organisation needs.
• The best market mapping tools in the game.
• The ability to uncover and engage talent that is typically underrepresented in your industry.
• Pre-agreed touchpoints and consistent communication throughout, to ensure expectations are being met every step of the way.

Want to find out more about our proven inclusive recruitment process?

Let’s talk! Get in touch today to find out how a specialist recruitment partner could add value to your internal DE&I initiatives:

Call us: 0151 209 2050 

Email us: info@aspion.co.uk