Use this verbiage in your job descriptions to be more welcoming to BIPOC communities.
We are actively working with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People Of Color) organizations across the country to listen, learn, and grow in 2020.
We have long been committed to helping scale inclusive and diverse executive and engineering teams, but we (all of us) have a lot of work to do.
One of the simplest ways you can start to broaden the appeal of the jobs you post- to help the BIPOC community understand that they are welcome and indeed, encouraged to apply to your open roles, we worked with Cynthia Billops, Director of Programs for /dev/color in California, to help folks understand that we are working to be MORE inclusive and working to be better friends and allies every day.
Below is the verbiage she recommended we include in our job descriptions- and we recommend you include it in yours, or a version of it as well.
Importantly- you need to have a dedicated resource/specialist within your organization that are 'skilled in answering questions for non-traditional applicants'.
We hope this is a helpful step in our collective journey to be more welcoming and inclusive to BIPOC communities.
"We are actively looking for folks who come from marginalized and/or underrepresented communities to help us create a more diverse workforce. While we acknowledge that we are not there yet, we know that attracting and hiring qualified people who bring different insights and influences to our existing team, will increase our overall value as a company. If you have any questions about whether or not you should apply and/or whether your work experience matches a particular requirement, please reach out."
Do reach out to Cynthia and /dev/color to support them or for more information!
Director, Security Engineering at Amazon
4 年Thanks for posting and for the discussion in the comments. I'm really interested in how to make our job descriptions and posts more inclusive, but as the comments in this thread indicate, this isn't easy!
CFO/Sales Operations/M&A/Online Author
4 年As a "person of color" (to be honest I don't like that term and prefer Brown or Hispanic) the use of the term "marginalized" hits me as condescending and potentially "down skilled" -- and it isn't the "community" that is underrepresented, it is a segment of people that are a part of that community that is underrepresented . I like better "We are actively looking for folks who come from underrepresented?segments of the talent pool to help us create a more diverse workforce." My 2 cents - -thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts/reaction.
CEO and Founder at Technical Integrity
4 年Katica Roy Royce H. Josh Ashton Josh Anderson, PHR Conor Swanson Alison Daley Derek J., SPHR, SHRM-SCP welcome your thoughts and additions!
Director of Direct Services at ICA.Fund (Non-Profit Local Community Development and VC Finance Institution)
4 年Thanks, Dave for the mention and also for the conscious decision to address lack of diversity as an issue both for company resiliency and for organizational bottom-line!