Mitigating Bias in Talent Acquisition
What you'll learn
- Recognize the critical practice of mitigating bias and understand its significance in maintaining organizational innovation, brand reputation, and growth
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of bias mitigation in talent acquisition, from the initial decision to fill a position, through screening to interviewing
- Learn how inadvertent reinforcement of bias in one area can impact efforts in other areas of talent acquisition
- Evaluate the impact of recruitment measurements within your organization on bias in talent acquisition, and explore strategies to mitigate these effects
- Learn to address bias in outreach methods and referral systems already in place, ensuring a more inclusive and equitable talent pool
- Acquire the knowledge to purposefully design your professional network, both internally and externally, to enhance recruitment efforts and promote diversity
Requirements
- Foundational Knowledge of Talent Acquisition: Participants should have a basic understanding of the talent acquisition process, including recruitment, interviewing, and hiring procedures
- Openness to Self-Reflection: A willingness to self-reflect and examine one's own biases is crucial. Participants should be open to introspection and personal growth
Description
Are you a leader responsible for acquiring and vetting talent and making hiring decisions in your organization? Are you eager to learn how to tap into a broader pool of well-matched candidates? Have you struggled with talent acquisition processes that fall short of growing the brand and its reputation? Have you felt that the hiring processes in your organization lack clarity, fairness, or agility? If so, then this course is designed for you.
In this course, you will:
Understand bias mitigation in talent acquisition comprehensively, from the decision to fill a position, to screening and vetting, to interviewing.
Recognize the role you can play in mitigating bias in hiring decisions.
Identify bias in hiring communication and practices.
Mitigating bias in talent acquisition can help organizations provide all candidates an equal opportunity to showcase their capabilities and show up at their best. While overhauling a process entirely on your own can be daunting and impractical, this course will equip you with the tools to navigate the hiring process and the decisions you are tasked with, enabling you to contribute to fairness and equity.
You will engage in practical exercises focused on discovery, review valuable resources, adapt language and tools, and examine certain mindset elements that could impact hiring decisions. These tools can be used independently and shared with others to enhance your influence and reputation within your organization.
Additionally, this course will provide you with techniques to practice bias mitigation in any context, offering you a new perspective on the talent acquisition process. With these insights, you will feel better prepared to commit to championing equity and inclusion in hiring and to seeking growth partners within your organization, to support you in translating these principles into action with a more significant impact.
Who this course is for:
- Any mid-level leader or employee tasked with acquiring talent and vetting talent as part of their role or as part of a temporary assignment.
- Employees and leaders from Recruitment, Human Resources, HR Business Partners, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion champions who participate in hiring decisions and hiring committees.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 132 Reviews
- 349 Students
- 1 Course
Hello, I'm Samara Hakim, an international culture, equity, and inclusion thought leader, data strategist, keynote speaker, writer, coach, and facilitator. For over a decade, I have equipped leaders and organizations with the mindset and skills to work with those who are different than them, by mitigating bias and integrating culture into business practices and metrics.
My work has ranged from culture transformation, team-building, leadership coaching, global marketing and sales, inclusive talent acquisition and advancement, supplier diversity, to cultural intelligence development and other corporate initiatives. I have worked with clients who are Fortune 500 and 100 companies in multiple industries, with for-profit and non-profit organizations of all sizes, as well as educational institutions.
I thrive on working with people from all walks of life. In all my work, I draw on a range of experiences including my cross-cultural work, my career as a lawyer, and my personal experiences and background. Through sitting on several advisory boards and participating in several communities of practice, as well as being a growth partner and coach alongside dozens of students and professionals, I have listened, experienced and witnessed the challenges and needs of people with varied lived experiences. I love to engage with people to think beyond their comfort zone, to work across differences.
I am honored to have been recognized with the 2018 Women of Excellence Award by Diversity Professional Magazine, the 2019 American Honda Premier Partner Award, and the 2021 NAWBO San Diego Women’s Advocate Award.
I grew up in Lebanon, and I currently reside with my husband and two children in San Diego, California.
I am so excited for you to take this course to look at talent acquisition in a whole new light, with concrete tools to mitigate bias, so that all candidates may have the opportunity to share their best self with you and your organization.