Inclusive Job Description Workshop

We all know how important first impressions can be. More often than not, your job description provides the first impression of your company.

Job seekers are looking for employment in companies that embrace diversity, as they prefer the supportive leadership and positive company culture often associated with a focus on inclusion.

Join this session to learn how inclusion drives job seeker engagement and boosts hiring success, along with how to attract outstanding talent through communicating your Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging efforts further.

Agenda

Objective 1:

• Understand the importance and purpose of a job description for an organization and why they require attention
• Learn when, why, and how often to update job descriptions
• Job descriptions vs. job advertisements and how to maximize engagement with job seekers
• Legal requirements of advertising open positions and attracting diverse job seekers
• The downside to bottled Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) language and overlooking DE&I
• Going beyond: The future of resumes and non-bias hiring techniques

Objective 2:

• Understand and identify exclusionary language within job descriptions for populations, including age, gender, race, religion, ability, citizenship, and education.
• Learn how company jargon can disengage job seekers

Activity 1: Job Description Forensics

• Walkthrough an exclusive job description and highlight the exclusive language as a group
• Display a second job description with exclusive language and ask the participants to identify exclusive language and the group(s) it may be excluding.

Objective 3:

• 10 steps to making a job description inclusive while simultaneously accelerating hiring

Activity 2: Three industries, three jobs

• Provide an overview of the company
• Provide a job analysis
• Provide an exclusive job description
• Break-out groups

Presenters:

Dr. Tiffany Jameson, Managing Partner, Founder of grit & flow

Nicole Seward, Director of Research, Sr. Consultant