Retirees are ditching vacations in the Caribbean, midday feedings of pigeons in the park and hours of frolicking with their grandkids for a once familiar reality. A growing number of older people are leaving retirement…
Talent
Understanding and Tackling AI Hiring Bias
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized talent management and recruitment. From advertising open positions, pre-screening resumes and applications, analyzing video-recorded interviews and predicting job performance, 24% of companies are using AI for their hiring and recruiting…
Mental Health and Employee Wellbeing Drove Rethink of Experience at PwC
Mental Health Awareness Month has come to an end, but if there’s one thing the last few years has taught us, it’s that corporate efforts to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people…
How Companies Can Address the Great Replacement Theory in Their DEI Efforts
The mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 people dead and three injured, almost all of them Black, is one of the latest examples of racial hatred in the United States. In a 180-page manifesto…
Implicit Racial Bias in the Hiring Process
A Hispanic-American man nervously waits with several applicants for a job interview. “Mike Rivers?” The hiring manager asks as he enters and surveys the room. “I’m Mike Rivers, that’s me,” the job applicant says as…
Thoughts on Talent Management From DiversityInc’s Top 50 Event
In a world where more and more companies strive to find the best and brightest talent, company leaders have found that more innovation happens on the job when there’s a diverse workforce. Thought leaders at…
Personality Assessments and Talent Management in the Workplace
As the Great Resignation has shown us, companies are finding it tough to retain and recruit workers. Personality assessments have gained popularity as a talent management tool for companies looking to hire and keep new…
How Organizations Are Helping People With Autism Build Careers
While the unemployment rate in the U.S. has recovered over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, that hasn’t been the reality for everyone as people with autism continue to experience unemployment and underemployment. Of the…
Dress To Impress: Navigating Your Personal Brand and the Grooming Gap
When it comes to setting rules, companies have many employee handbooks, HR principles and other guidelines in place that are clearly written out for their workforce to follow. But for some companies, there’s an unspoken…
Board Level Actions That Combat Turnover and Drive Talent Retention
In 2021, the volume of talent leaving the workforce voluntarily to take on opportunities as entrepreneurs or in other fields rose to such a level that it became known as the Great Resignation. While there…
Mastercard Prioritizes DEI To Fill Cybersecurity Talent Gap
To keep DEI top of mind, Mastercard (No. 5 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2021) is putting in the work to fill in talent gaps, from hiring and retaining neurodiverse…
The Importance of Diversity-Focused Job Boards and How They Drive Representation Impact
Whether you want to call it the “Great Resignation” or the “Great Renegotiation,” approximately 33 million Americans have left their jobs since spring 2021 and are looking for or have found new ones. People are…
How To Address Talent Shortage Using DEI Lessons From Cybersecurity and Healthcare
The U.S. is 22 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and while the country is no longer facing high unemployment rates, a shortage of workers remains. According to CBS News, two of the best fields to…
The Growing Importance of Neurodiversity in the New Era of Work
As we talk about diversity in 2022, neurodiversity and the different ways people process information must become central to every organization’s DEI strategy. More research into learning disabilities such as ADD, ADHD, dyscalculia or dyslexia…
The Language of Job Descriptions and What They Say About Your Organization
Words matter, and if there has ever been a time when that’s evident — that it isn’t just what you say, but how you say it that matters to people — that time is now….