Celebrated annually on January 17th, International Mentoring Day was founded in honour of the legacy of champion boxer, activist and cultural icon Muhammad Ali, who engaged people globally through formal and informal mentoring. To mark the day, let’s explore reverse mentoring – what it involves, why it’s important, its benefits, and how to effectively manage it, with a specific focus
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Here’s a list of ways to ensure your workplace celebrates the holidays inclusively and compassionately, while supporting employee wellbeing and preparing them for success in the new year…
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Creating a trans-inclusive workplace goes beyond good intentions—it’s about practices and policies that truly support and respect transgender and gender non-conforming employees. Let’s take a look at five truly trans-inclusive practices and five commonly intended practices that can unintentionally fall short.
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October is ADHD Awareness Month. Inclusion is key to fostering a thriving, innovative workplace, and supporting neurodivergent employees, such as those with ADHD, is an essential part of this.
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Ok, so you’re putting in the work, and your intentions are good… but is there something you’re overlooking when it comes to inclusion in the workplace that’s lessening the impact of your EDI initiatives? When discussing workplace inclusion, the focus typically centres on factors like gender diversity and race, or physical accessibility. These are, of course, absolutely crucial, but they
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We need to talk about “woke”, the now often contested and often misused term.
The broadcaster Ashley James recently received widespread praise on social media after sharing her definition of the word in a discussion on the TV show ‘This Morning.’
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Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic year. In 2024, it is expected to begin on March 10th. Do you understand what this might involve for Muslim colleagues observing Ramadan, including the challenges they could face in the workplace? Many Muslims will be balancing their religious commitments with their work during the month, especially if they are fasting from
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An LGBTQ+ inclusive workplace is somewhere employees of all sexualities and gender expressions feel safe and valid and comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. In addition to the clear ethical standpoint, having robust inclusion strategies in place for LGBTQ+ colleagues also makes sense from a business perspective. This is because all employees will feel less stressed and more productive
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For us, it’s EDI and not DEI. While both of these acronyms describe the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, we prefer to use the term EDI because it places equity before diversity and inclusion, to emphasise its importance.
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National Inclusion Week 2022 begins today, with the theme this year of ‘Time To Act, The Power Of Now’. To mark the week, the Inclusive Recruiting team have chosen the Inclusion Champions they would like to shine a spotlight on this year, people who are using #ThePowerOfNow to make a real difference in the inclusion space. So, in no particular
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It’s Random Acts of Kindness Week. Everyone could do with more kindness in their lives, especially so after the last two tough years. Scientific evidence shows us the positive effects of doing kind acts for others, as well as receiving or even witnessing kindness. For this year’s Random Acts of Kindness Week, we’re putting our focus again on Random Acts
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by Neurodiversity Specialists There is a secret to applying for and getting jobs. Being your best at interview is a combination of having a great application to get you in the room, plus wowing the interviewers on the day. People with dyslexia may face unique challenges when applying for a new job when it comes to preparing the application and
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How disability inclusive is your interview process? There are many ways disabled people can be excluded from the recruitment process. You’re looking for the best candidate for the job so why risk excluding potential talent from showing you their skills? It’s important that disabled candidates have the same opportunities to shine in the recruitment process as everyone else. Most won’t need
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Intersectionality – the term, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, brings a lens that is really important for us to understand…. Intersectionality is the multiple layers of individuals that we are. It’s not just considering race, sexual orientation, disability, class, socio-economic background, education and so on. These strands individually can cause marginalisation, bias and/or discrimination against an individual…. but intersectionality finally identifies
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Did you know that the average job seeker spends 49.7 seconds reading a job description before dismissing a position as a poor fit? Any changes you can make to your language and the accessibility of your recruitment process to be more inclusive will help attract talented candidates to your opportunities who may have previously stopped reading after less than a
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Our huge thanks toAmy Gair for making this video forDeaf Awareness Week 2021, sharing her thoughts on Deaf awareness and inclusivity in the recruitment process. How did I find my recent interview experience with Inclusive Recruiting?I found the interview process to be easy because the person who was dealing with the interviews has emailed me the questions of what she
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In a recent survey we carried out on LinkedIn, 92% of those who took part in our poll answered ‘Yes – anonymous CVs do just delay bias’. Many companies have used anonymous CVs in a bid to overcome bias when it comes to the recruitment process. This is not a new concept and one that has long divided opinion. Anonymous
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