Embrace Diversity and Inclusion in Recruitment

DEIB is all the buzz in HR. It stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. But how many companies stand by it? How many companies enlist the services of a diversity and inclusion recruitment agency? In India, diversity hiring is growing 26% annually, as last assessed in 2023. This is great news. It is, in fact, growing faster than the rest of the world. Is your company on the diversity and inclusion in hiring bandwagon yet?

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Key Features of Our Diversity Recruiting Solutions

Alp Consulting has over a decade of experience in diversity hiring for several Fortune 500 companies. It is a top diversity and inclusion recruitment agency in India. Here are some of the features of our diversity recruitment services.

1Cognitive Diversity
Hiring people with cognitive diversity helps build a culture of innovation in the company, thanks to their unique gifts of pattern recognition and other special abilities.
2Ethnic Diversity
A workforce that is ethnically diverse will bring a lot of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking with it. This will also help the company meet any compliance requirements that may be in a specific state or country.
3Age Diversity
A workforce that is composed of individuals from diverse age groups, with as good a representation for Gen Z as there is for the baby boomer generations and others, will be more open to fresh ideas, and the experiences of different generations will most likely bring a sense of balance and belonging.
4Gender and Orientation Diversity
Being gender diverse helps build a business that not only meets the requirements enforced by state and central governments but also helps understand the other half of your customer base better, helps eliminate any existing biases in hiring or management, etc.
5Diversity Sourcing
When trying to introduce diversity and inclusion in hiring, you must try to bring this in at the sourcing stage itself. This will ensure that at least a good number of diverse candidates make it to other steps in the recruitment process. A diversity and inclusion recruitment agency can really help.
6Leadership Diversity
Leaders set the tone for the entire organization and have the power to create a positive and inclusive culture, foster open and respectful communication, and drive progress on diversity and inclusion initiatives.
7Diversity Audits
These audits enable your organization to stay compliant with statutory and regulatory norms for diversity. They also tell you how much work must be done to ensure there is better diversity in your organization and who the stakeholders of such diversity would be.
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Our Process

1Conduct a diversity audit on your current hiring process
Assess how diverse your current hiring process is, and what potential bottlenecks are to achieving diversity and inclusion in the company. Where exactly is the issue – is it a top-of-the-funnel issue, or are there any issues like bias or mismanagement elsewhere in the hiring process? To understand this better, you must have access to the hiring data and technology that will help you draw insights from it.
2Pick metrics to improve for diversity in hiring
Where are you currently lagging when it comes to diversity, and what metrics can be improved in a short span, and what will take more effort and time? It could be introducing more females in tech roles (easily achievable) or introducing more people with special abilities with adequate support (more difficult to achieve). Once you know the specific metrics, all you need to do is pick the metrics that you want to improve to ensure diversity in hiring. Also, decide on the realistic time frame you want to achieve this target in.
3Increase your diversity hiring in your candidate sourcing
A great party starts with inviting the right people. You can improve diversity hiring in the sourcing phase itself. You need to include more people from diverse backgrounds at the beginning of the recruitment process itself. To do this, we present workplace diversity statistics, introduce flexibility at the workplace to accommodate diversity, encourage referrals from employees from diverse backgrounds, etc. An agency that specialises in diversity and recruitment in hiring can help you achieve the aforesaid goals.
4Increase your diversity hiring in candidate screening
In candidate screening, make sure you address a leaking pipeline, if any, by removing excess criteria that can prevent the hiring of people from diverse backgrounds. Examples of such are inherently biased criteria, such as hiring only males or people with a certain experience or knowledge. Instead, personality assessments can bring in more people from diverse backgrounds. Technologies or processes that maintain the anonymity of candidate information are also used.
5Re-evaluate your diversity hiring metrics
What hiring strategies worked to ensure that you achieved diversity in your organization? What more must be done? If you didn’t achieve the results you wanted to, try and understand what went wrong and how you can get there. Then categorize them based on how easy or difficult they are to implement and what is impacting your reputation directly at present. Focus on what is a priority for you! If you can’t arrive at conclusions, take the help of a diversity and inclusion recruitment agency.
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Importance of Diversity in Recruitment for Organizations

There are obvious financial benefits to diversity, as frequent studies have shown.

1. It grows the talent pool

As your company hires across barriers like gender, race, caste, or creed, you engage with a lot more candidates, which helps grow your talent pool. Whenever you are hiring, you have more people to hire from, which gives your recruiters greater flexibility.

2. It improves employee happiness and productivity

Employees are happier and productive at work and less likely to leave the organization without giving it due consideration. This is because they are included and welcome despite being from another background. This makes them develop a sense of belonging.

3. It improves innovation and creativity

When people from varying backgrounds contribute, there is greater creativity and innovation at work. This is especially true for architecture, marketing, or advertising, where creativity could play a major role. This is because each person is inspired by unique ideas drawn from their background.

4. It’s good for your employer brand

Your employer brand gains a solid foundation from which to grow. Most brands known for their diversity also secure strong faith and support from several corners of the people they interact with. Customers, candidates, and employees all stand by them and take pride in the brand.

5. It helps understand customer needs better

When you hire for diversity, you tend to know the customer better because the people in your workforce, who are from varying backgrounds, may be more familiar with their needs and wants and be able to cater to them in a better way, and in the process develop a range of skills.

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Industries We Serve

Logistics

When you need temp staff, you can rely on and warehouse managers you can trust

Agritech

Hiring a regenerative agriculture specialist, a research head or toxicologist? We hear from you!

Automobile

Design engineers, automation experts, and battery specialists could make all the difference

Aerospace

Space is the next frontier only with great aerospace engineers and scientists

Retail and E-commerce

Find the customer’s basket with retail specialists and great customer care managers

Semiconductor

Hire design engineers and QC experts who ensure that a NAND Gate does not delay customer delight

Oil and Gas

Hire reservoir engineers to identify new opportunities and chemical engineers to refine existing processes

Shipbuilding

Build your way to naval might with naval engineers and architects prized for their talent

Renewable Energy

Identify newer sources and optimize existing ones with the right talent

Information Technology

Hire the best talent from India to get your app or dream website running

GCC/Captives

Hire the best experts and analysts in research for your industry without delay

ITES/BPM

Outsource your financial or IT back-office needs to a reliable partner

Healthcare

Deliver on your promise of good health with the right doctors, nursing staff and administrators

Biotech and Pharma

Manage compliance with compliance experts and get the research right with able scientists

Engineering and R&D

Hire people to reduce errors in the engineering processes and secure higher returns

Manufacturing

Get the best QA/QC experts to ensure product quality and compliance experts to ensure compliance

EV Battery

Hire the best EV engineers to design batteries that are more efficient and safer for the environment

Our Value Proposition

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A structured approach with increased operational efficiency and a well-defined TAT that accommodates all customer requirements when it comes to diversity and inclusion in recruitment.

2

The ability to ramp up quickly and increase/decrease candidates on the team as swiftly as per your business needs, while also ensuring diversity in recruitment.  

3

Offer a customized recruitment model to consistently find a better match from the shortlisted candidates to accommodate more diversity on demand.

4

Follow an error-free, timely payroll process for every candidate, with on-time disbursements and pay-slip generation, eliminating any hint of bias. 

5

Handle statutory compliance with care and adhere to all the rules, thereby boasting a 100% compliance score in maintaining diversity and inclusion in recruitment.

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Cost-effective diversity hiring solutions with the flexibility to upscale or downsize as per the organization’s needs.

Latest Trends in DEI Recruitment

Structured, Objective Assessments are the need of the hour to ensure DEI efforts are embedded into the recruitment process.

Blinded Screening

Using anonymized applications and skill assessments very early in the interview process can help filter the ones based purely on skills.

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Competency-Based Interviews

All candidates must be asked the same questions, regarding their skills and experience, as it can help bring out their specific competencies that is relevant to the role.

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Analyse responses with AI

Every answer given by the candidate is scored. AI can be used to analyse whether these responses are consistent and relevant.

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Diverse Interview Panels

It's not a nice-to-have but a baseline requirement to eliminate individual bias and signal inclusivity.

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Transparency and Accountability

Organizations must share all data associated with DEI efforts, such as interview rates, application rates for underrepresented groups, at all stages.

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Use AI to assess and analyze

AI dashboards can help with the overview of all DEI data and metrics, making it easier for organizations to intervene where there are issues. Pay equity audits must be a standard practice.

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Employer branding

How you showcase and highlight your brand makes a big difference. The diverse employee experiences, inclusive policies implemented, and engagement with diverse communities are some things you must highlight.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1What is diversity hiring?
Diversity hiring helps ensure that there is no bias based on the race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. of the candidate and that he/she is assessed only based on their skill levels, attitude, and dedication.
2What are the challenges of diversity hiring?
There are several challenges to diversity hiring, some of them being unconscious bias in the hiring team or manager, inadequate training for the HR team, a lack of communication with the candidate because they are from a different background, etc.
3How do you plan diversity hiring?
To do diversity hiring, re-visualize the image of your brand as a more inclusive one, rewrite the job descriptions, improve policies referring toning the feelings of diverse candidates, and encourage the diverse employees on your payroll to refer their friends or relatives.

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