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Should I advertise my Equality and Diversity Role Here |
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This website is not dedicated to practitioners, and many people make the mistake of becoming diverse when they have an E & D role. This could be seen as double standards.
Diversity Business Media also publish diversitylink.co.uk, this is a practitioner website and the first place you should advertise your role for an Equality and Diversity Manager. |
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So what is Diversity? |
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Diversity implies a wide range of conditions and characteristics. In terms of businesses and their workforces it is about valuing and reaping the benefits of a varied workforce that makes the best of people’s talents whatever their backgrounds. Diversity encompasses visible and non-visible individual differences. It can be seen in the makeup of your workforce in terms of gender, ethnic minorities, disabled people etc., about where those people are in terms of management positions, job opportunities, terms and conditions in the workplace.
Diversity is about respecting individual differences, and people's differences can be many and varied:
Embracing equality and diversity brings to an organisation a wide range of experience, ideas and creativity whilst giving the individual employee a feeling of being enabled to work to their full potential.
Combined together, equality and diversity drive an organisation to comply with anti-discrimination legislation as well as emphasising the positive benefits of diversity such as drawing on a wider pool of talent, positively motivating all employees and meeting the needs of a wider customer base.
Employers are now encouraged to deepen and enrich their “equal opportunities” policies and strategies into an encompassing Equality and Diversity policy with a strategy and action plans that managers, workers and other stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from.
Diversity Jobs is the perfect vehicle to reach diverse candidates and connect with forward thinking employers.
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What is the purpose of your website |
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Diversity jobs, is a website which promotes diversity in the workplace. Our visitors are normally not well represented in the workplace or are from hard to reach groups.
Conventional recruitment advertising does not always deliver a rich pool of diverse candidates from unrepresented groups. Employers and Recruiters can action their commitment to diversity by advertising their posts here. Diversity recruitment can be a vital element of any recruitment campaign.
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