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4 Compelling Reasons to Choose Skills over Degrees

Vervoe

From improving workplace diversity and productivity to lowering recruitment costs and closing skill gaps, there are many reasons why organizations around the world have chosen to replace degree-based hiring with skills. Skills-based hiring improves employee retention. Skills-based hiring improves workplace diversity.

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How to Recruit Gen Z: Understanding Their Values and Aspirations

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

It’s called Generation Alpha, and it’s loosely defined as beginning around 2010). A strong company culture has the added benefit of improving retention , too, so the payoff is multiplied with this youngest segment of the workforce. According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z includes people born from 1997 onward. (In

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Celebrate Pride all year long

PowerToFly

For Colleen (she/her), being part of an organization that values diversity and fosters a sense of community among all employees has been an “amazing experience.” We interned and were in the college cohort together in 2009 and 2010, and now we have a 4-year-old son.” An inclusive environment also improves employee retention.

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Where Are All the Women in FinTech?

Slayton Search Partners

Gender diversity has been shown to spark better problem-solving, superior performance and innovation, better alignment with a diverse customer base, and higher retention and attraction rates. This is true of diversity in general. Ensuring women are well-represented in leadership roles in any industry is always beneficial.

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How Disability Can Help Close the STEM Gap

Recruiting Blogs

STEM employers have historically been behind the curve in terms of welcoming diversity — in 2017, it was reported that STEM industries have 75 per cent fewer people with disabilities than in the general population, which certainly isn’t representative. STEM is notoriously competitive and intellectually challenging. link]. .

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3 Ways Companies Are Fighting Bias in the Workplace and Hiring Process

Linkedin Talent Blog

And not only can these biases hurt interactions with customers, they can also creep into the hiring process and damage efforts to build a diverse workforce. Unilever understands that diversity is a business imperative. It also suggests simple ways that you can improve your posts to create a more diverse pool of candidates.

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Celebrate Pride all year long

PowerToFly

For Colleen (she/her), being part of an organization that values diversity and fosters a sense of community among all employees has been an “amazing experience.” We interned and were in the college cohort together in 2009 and 2010, and now we have a 4-year-old son.” An inclusive environment also improves employee retention.