Many companies have been recruiting for diversity recently. How do you know if your efforts are having an impact?
Listen in on what our panelists have to say.
This event is part of the “Let’s Talk Recruiting” series where a panel of recruiting practitioners get together online and have a conversation on a variety of topics related to corporate recruiting.
Our Panelists…
| Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
| Anna Forsberg | Recruiting Denver | Director Talent Acquisition | InnovAge |
| Christina Shareef | TA Leaders | Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Reddit, Inc. |
| Kim Lonas | TA Leaders | Director, Human Resources | Exertis |
| Melisa Medrano | Recruiting SFBA | Manager, Talent Acquisition | NGM Biopharmaceuticals |
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We asked our attendees, “If your company has a diversity program, what is one way to tell if it is working?”
Here are their answers:
- Analyzing at our diversity metrics by different groups, departments, etc.
- At vcfo we check our VIBE - the Values of Inclusivity, Belonging and Equity
- By the increased representation at the company
- Candidates feedback
- Data Data Data
- decreased attrition of diverse hires
- Demographic reporting features in Greenhouse
- Diverse Hires
- Diverse interviews panels
- Diversity metrics (# hires, attrition, engagement)
- Employee feedback
- Employees truly feel they can be their authentic self at work.
- Evidence of increased attraction of interested and qualified diverse candidates; increased hires from diverse candidate slate.
- Feedback from the employees and/or new hires and management
- Feedback from workforce.
- having diverse candidate slates for interviewing
- Having diversity goals and seeing if those are being met by data.
- Hires
- Hires from Diversity Events
- I need help determining KPI's! Currently using survey data
- If the number of Minorities and women hires went up
- If your internal/external clients, board, and employees reflect the world around us.
- If your team reflects the diversity of your local community
- Improvement on key metrics. Employee sentiment around Inclusion/Belonginf
- increase in diversity hires
- increase in diversity hires.
- Increased diverse hires
- Internal equity
- it is new so don't have any measurements yet
- it would beget more diversity
- Key metrics
- Look at hires and promotions
- Look at your applicant pool
- Metrics
- metrics
- metrics
- Metrics
- Metrics reporting (hire & onboarding, promotion, exit)
- More underrepresented candidates interviewing
- Not applicable
- Number of diverse hires
- number of diverse new hires minus diversity attrition
- Numbers
- Percentages of women and people of color being better represented in leadership roles; number of/impact of ERG Groups
- Performing quarterly audits
- Progression
- Reporting on number of actual diverse hires
- Reporting shows up an uptick in diversity hiring
- retention
- support from the executive team
- Survey Responses, Feedback, Diversity New Hires Accepted Offers
- take a look around
- The employees are comfortable with Having uncomfortable conversations
- The numbers need to show it
- through organic employer branding
- Track employee diversity metrics yoy
- Unsure
- We are developing a diversity program and looking for a good definition of Diversity and how to measure how it's working
- We are getting one soon
- We currently don't have much of one.
- We don't currently have one, so would love to learn more on this topic.
- We dont have a diversity program
- We just started it.
- We're attracting and hiring folks from URM groups
- Wunderlich-Malec
- Yes
- you have a diverse population
- Your staff is more diverse
Some of the attendees…
| Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
| Amanda Mich | Senior Recruiter | Heidrick & Struggles | |
| Scott Hollingsworth | Recruiting Atlanta | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Floor & Decor |
| Stephanie Reese | Recruiting Atlanta | Senior Sales Recruiter | Apptio |
| Lisa Wrezel | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition Lead | Centric Consulting |
| Erin Laramie | Recruiting Chicago | Regional Talent Acquisition Manager | HMSHost |
| Chase Wiggs | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition- Technology | FootLocker |
| Claudia Castaneda | Recruiting Chicago | Sr Talent Advisor | U.S. Cellular |
| Kraig Baker | Recruiting Chicago | TA Manager | Echo Global Logistics |
| Barbara Fasth | Recruiting Chicago | Recruiting Manager | Menasha Packaging |
| Kelly McCarthy | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Corporate Recruiter on the Talent Acquisition team | Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC |
| Chelsey Kent | Recruiting Dallas | Sr. Corporate Recruiter | Epsilon |
| Mike Thomas | Recruiting DCBmore | Sr Recruiter | Eagle Hill Consulting |
| Christine Drelling | Recruiting DCBmore | Global Team Lead - Technical Recruiting | Sitecore |
| Krystan Silva | Recruiting DCBmore | Talent Acquisition Manager | Looking for Work |
| Delaina Silva | Recruiting Denver | Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant | SDL plc |
| Martin Hancock | Recruiting Denver | Sr. Technical Recruiter | Alteryx |
| Khadija Washington | Recruiting Houston | Senior Recruiter | Southwest Airlines |
| Ashley Greene | Recruiting Houston | Board Member Recruiter | Gift of Adoption Fund |
| Nancy Genitempo | Recruiting Houston | Associate, Talent Acquisition Operations | Looking for Work |
| Vira Trevino-Garcia | Recruiting Houston | Director of Recruiting | vcfo |
| Ashley K. | Recruiting Houston | Senior Corporate Recruiter, National Multi-Business | Veolia North America |
| Sandra Maldonado | Recruiting LA | HR Business Partner and Recruiter | Esri |
| Melissa Mendoza | Recruiting LA | Talent Acquisition Specialist | Conrad N. Hilton Foundation |
| Michelle McKnight | Recruiting LA | Senior Recruiter | Herbalife |
| Gillian Diamond | Recruiting LA | Senior Manager Talent Acquisition | Entertainment Partners |
| Katherine Amato | Recruiting LA | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Guitar Center |
| Angie K. | Recruiting LA | Manager, Talent Acquisition | Netflix |
| Cindy Wong | Recruiting LA | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist | Princess Cruises |
| Nicholas Steinberg | Recruiting LA | Talent Acquisition Specialist | Bluebeam |
| Suk Dhaliwal | Recruiting LA | Senior Talent Acquisition Lead | Deluxe Entertainment Services Group |
| Katherine Amato | Recruiting LA | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Guitar Center |
| Dave Keldsen | Recruiting LA | Talent Acquisition Manager | Northrop Grumman |
| Katie Bedney | Recruiting Minneapolis | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Prime Therapeutics |
| Moe Karimi | Recruiting Minneapolis | Talent Acquisition Manager/Recruiter | Proozy |
| Denise Ward | Recruiting Minneapolis | Technical Recruiter | Wunderlich-Malec Engineering |
| Becky Gramenz | Recruiting Minneapolis | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist | Looking for Work |
| Tamara Garlett | Recruiting Portland | Senior Recruiter, Global Footwear Product Creation | Nike |
| Mike Mattson | Recruiting Portland | Corporate Recruiter | Papa Murphy's International |
| Kathy Simmons | Recruiting Seattle | Technical Recruiter | Accenture |
| Arhonda Reyes | Recruiting Seattle | Senior Staffing and Recruiting Manager | SEKISUI Aerospace |
| Marvin Smith | Recruiting Seattle | Strategic Talent Sourcing | Talent Community Strategist | Lockheed Martin |
| Marita Arevalo | Recruiting Seattle | Recruiter | Aegis Living |
| Audrey Jolly | Recruiting Seattle | Recruiter | Matrix Medical Network |
| Juston Willis | Recruiting SFBA | Lead Corporate Recruiter | SaaS/PaaS solutions | Committed to diversity & inclusion | Xray | Unknown |
| Kayla Kahl | Recruiting SFBA | Manager, Recruiting Operations | Marqeta |
| Sydney Clark | Recruiting SFBA | University and Diversity Sourcer | Udemy |
| Tracie Connors | Recruiting SFBA | Principal Technical Recruiter Cyber Security | Verizon Media |
| Megan Dent | Recruiting SFBA | Recruiting Manager | Aurora |
| Christine Graham | Recruiting SFBA | Program Manager Lead, Ads, Core & Payments Staffing | Google Inc. |
| Terry Killian | Recruiting SFBA | Sr Technical Sourcer / Recruiter | Informatica |
| Jean Sheehan | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition | ConServe |
| JoDee Klinker | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Carson Group |
| Chrissy Gibson | TA Leaders | VP/Talent Acquisition Delivery Consultant, Senior | UMB Bank |
| Joseph O'Boyle | TA Leaders | Global Head of Talent Acquisition - Customer Operations | London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) |
| Michael Martinolich | TA Leaders | Head of Global Recruiting | NERA Economic Consulting |
| John Capozzi | TA Leaders | Director of Recruiting and Retention | On-Ramps To Careers |
| Amanda Radice | TA Leaders | Technical Recruiter | SurveyMonkey |
| Monica Silverstein | TA Leaders | Head, Talent Acquisition and Employee Experience | Univision Communications |
| James Molloy | TA Leaders | Sr. Director of Recruiting | Spectrum Reach |
| Delta Stein | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition | Frontier Technology |
| Kevin Oram | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition Operations | DreamWorks Animation |
| Melissa Rutledge | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition Director | Point B |
| Joseph Yeh | TA Leaders | Head of Talent | Apex.AI |
| Daniel Goyeneche | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Eze Castle Integration |
| Kellie Brady | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition | AxoGen |
| Candice Bristow | TA Leaders | Director Of Recruiting | Expel |
| Meredith Beamish | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Illuminate Education |
| Rachel Racr | TA Leaders | Field Director of Talent Acquisition | Medical City Healthcare (Formerly HCA North Texas) |
| Kreisler Ng | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition & Public Training Practice | cPrime |
| Bridget Baggett | TA Leaders | Director of Career Development & Engagement | MOREHOUSE COLLEGE |
| Rachel Cupples | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Strategy & Partnerships | Recruiter.com |
| Angus Dobbie | TA Leaders | Director & Senior Recruiting Manager - Institutional Clients Group | Citi |
| Nancee Martin | TA Leaders | Managing Director Corporate Recruiting | AvAirPros |
| James Perduto | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition & Mobility Programs | Looking for Work |
| Marci Caudle | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition & Development | Frontline Education |
| Joe Giadone | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Americas | KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. |
| Steven Green | TA Leaders | Vice President | Global Project Lead – Associate Recruiting |Global Human Resources | Looking for Work |
| Emmanuele Bowles | TA Leaders | Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Florida International University |
| Bennett Yang | TA Leaders | Director Talent Acquisition | SoundHound |
| Joe Shanbaum | TA Leaders | Director of Technical Recruitment - Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility | Ford Motor Company |
