Navigating the Trenches: A Practical Guide to Inclusive Recruitment
Amidst the complexities of the current talent landscape, where issues surrounding Affirmative Action, AI and ROI weigh heavily on hiring decisions, join an in-depth exploration of inclusive and compliant talent acquisition strategies. Leveraging expertise from conducting global diagnostics on attracting, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding candidates, we'll walk through the intricacies of building a truly inclusive talent acquisition program. We'll uncover common pitfalls, including biases, systemic inequities and candidate experience challenges, to provide practical tips and strategies to cultivate an inclusive Talent Acquisition process.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common pitfalls and biases that can hinder inclusive talent acquisition.
- Discover best practices for ensuring that AI is used to enhance, not hinder, diversity and inclusion efforts.
- Learn strategies to overcome these pitfalls and biases and create a more inclusive talent acquisition process.
- Leverage benchmarking data from global talent acquisition audits to inform your inclusive talent acquisition strategies.
- Implement practical tips, tools, and strategies to cultivate a truly inclusive talent acquisition process.
Judy Ellis
As a DEI practitioner and organizational consultant, Judy leads strategic culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion transformations to build organizations where all employees thrive. For over 20 years, she has designed and delivered solutions for corporate, nonprofit and educational clients.
Judy leads the global DEI consulting practice of AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions), a Talent Acquisition and Workforce Solutions firm. She has designed diagnostic tools of end-to-end recruitment processes to foster inclusivity that she’s delivered for organizations including Barclays and Bristol Myers Squibb. She’s also developed DEI strategy, communication plans, career development frameworks and global training initiatives on Inclusive Leadership, Conscious Inclusion in Hiring, and Unconscious Bias for companies including Delta Airlines and MUFG. Prior to joining AMS, Judy led a certified Woman- and Minority-owned DEI consulting firm, Think People.
Judy serves as an Adjunct Instructor in Workforce Diversity at the University of Cincinnati ‘s Master’s in Applied Psychology Program. She has a B.S. in Management & Organizations from Indiana University's Kelly School of Business. She holds certificates in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University, and Coaching with the International Coaching Federation; she is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory®. She has been named a “Top Diversity Officer” by the National Diversity Council. Her expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been featured in Forbes, DiversityQ magazine, the Recruiting Daily podcast and on numerous conference platforms, including SHRM’s Inclusion Conference.