Sally Rinehart
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Diversity in recruitment
Sally Rinehart
Recruitment Manager
WDS Limited
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Points today
Working with Management to identify critical target areas
for diversity
Attracting a broader range of candidates to your
organisation
Embedding your diversity strategy into the recruitment
process
Developing an effective targeted recruitment initiative
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Working with Management to identify critical
target areas for diversity
5 key points
Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a
particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs
Conversion refers to converting those who do not hold your
beliefs to hold your beliefs
Spreading the love refers to others practicing evangelism in
your absence
Implementing refers to the practice of implementation at the
coal face
Monitoring refers to the practice of ensuring the implementation
is maintained and improved upon
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How?
Speak in their language
Show the business case
Convince one by one
Find the champion
Build the relationship
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For example....Did you know?
By 2018 we will be at 2 in 5 people in paid work,
currently at 4 in 5 ( at current workforce participation
rates) ageing workforce, etc.
By 2020, we will be at 1 in 5. this means we either
A) we can all start paying around 67 70% tax B) look for a new segment of the workforce to share the
load.
By the way, women make up 5% of the workforce in the
resources industry, make up 50.13% of the population
and have a 76% participation rate overall - now that is
something to work with
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Attracting a broader range of candidates to your
organisation
5 key points
If you go shopping, shop with knowledge
Dont take your own thoughts as the truth
Just because others arent doesnt mean you shouldnt
Look in all the hard to find places network! Dont promise the world and deliver, well, not much
Expectations not delivered will mean failure pretty much within the
first 12 months
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How?
What is that the diversity candidates do?
Where might they be hiding?
What are they reading?
Where are they going?
How do we make them feel comfortable?
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So, why am I convinced this is right?
Women in underground mining project
First of its kind in Australia
Ground breaking less than .1% females
Going to be brilliant!!!
Had a client (corporate) on side Got commitment
Full recruitment process 240 women want to go underground
(really??)
Site management said no.
Project still waiting.....
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Embedding your diversity strategy into the
recruitment process
5 key points
Understand what you are trying to achieve back to language
Interview formats that are the same old, same old, wont give you
a different result
Turn off the subjective, turn on the objective
Whoever come up with behavioural techniques, forgot to
mention there is no one general fit
Practice positive discrimination it really is okay
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Developing an effective targeted recruitment
initiative
The really nice thing about not planning is that failure
comes as complete surprise and is not preceded by long
periods of worry and depression.
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Treat every initiative as a project.
Determine objective
Plan/research
Task/activity
Process map to get clear objectives
Implementation of process
Monitor success
Monitor stats on success
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The success story
Indigenous women in hard hats first of its kind in
Queensland
Full training program from culture to discrimination to
financial to family support Project managed cultural training both for participants
and for employees
Advertising on indigenous TV/networks/indigenous
community newsletters