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From the job description to the hire selection, that doesn’t mean that training and culture and the entire experience from onboarding on is not crucially important to diversity and inclusion, but it’s not our particular focus area. That being said, we do have a lot of recommendations and thought around, know how you do want to train how you want to, for example, you want to hire for potential as much as possible and bring For those gaps, rather than hiring to fill all of those, there are specific skills because what you might be getting First of all if you’re not looking for the purple unicorn or the purple squirrel unicorn or whatever you like to call those very elusive individuals that check every box and pay dearly for them. But when you’re doing that what you pretend to happen is you’re not prioritizing that potential, that growth, that team dynamic, that new way of thinking that you can bring in augment the team. You’re just looking for something that slips into one specific slot, and there’s a lot you could miss when you’re doing that. So training, culture, all of that is absolutely key.

 

 

Related article: https://positivehire.co/driving-dei-within-the-hiring-process-through-actionable-tips-techniques/

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