8 tips for hiring and retaining diverse employees

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Retaining a diverse group of employees is not an easy task. It may take a lot of time and effort to achieve this goal. Here are some tips for managers in building a basic action plan toward this goal.

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8 Tips for Hiring and Retaining

Diverse Employees

Special Report From: EasySmallBusinessHR.com

Many managers and business owners understand the value of

hiring a diverse group of employees, but aren’t quite sure of the

steps that need to be taken towards reaching their goal of an

inclusive and diverse workforce.

Finding and retaining employees that represent a wide range of

diversity at all levels takes time and commitment. The following 8

tips should help towards developing a plan of action that over time,

will help you to hire and retain staff that are representative of the

community at large.

Finding Diverse Employees

1. Participate with associations or organizations whose primary

focus is to work with underrepresented individuals. Participation

may include attending networking events, sponsoring an

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association initiative, or providing helpful workshops or

information sessions.

2. Take a look at your website and other marketing materials that

represent your company. If these materials

don’t highlight individuals from different backgrounds, you’ll

likely lose many potential candidates who will view the lack of

diversity in your marketing materials to be indicative of the lack of

commitment or interest that your business has for staff that are

different.

3. Reach diverse candidates early in the game by contacting

administrators at high schools or middle schools in areas where the

population is diverse. These types of events are the perfect

opportunity to showcase your company and the type of work that

your employees perform on a daily basis. Students will remember

your company when they are looking for work.

Keeping the Employees That You Have

4. Make sure that you orient all new employees by ensuring that

they are introduced to staff across the organization. Share with

them the often overlooked, but important information on the

mission and culture of the business.

5. Include your new employees in workplace activities and

initiatives as appropriate.

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6. Become more in tune to cultural and communication differences

in the workplace. Research the impact that cultural and

communication differences may have in the workplace.

An excellent article that goes into very interesting detail about

cultural differences in the workplace and how to identify an

overcome them is “Managing a Multicultural Workforce”.

Another great article to read is “Understanding Cultural

Differences in the Workplace”. Although the article specifically

speaks to international business, the advice is very transferable to

the U.S. workforce.

7. Don’t be shy about interviewing all of your employees in order

to get a sense of what they like about the organization, or what

they feel can be done better. As employees leave your company,

meet with them to learn about their experience and use the

information to help you to recruit and retain employees.

8. Provide mentorship opportunities for employees so that they are

exposed to individuals at all levels of the organization.

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