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Becoming a Diverse Sussex signatory gives you access to our growing toolkit of free resources designed to assist your diversity, equity and inclusion knowledge and practices.
The toolkit is split into various categories (awareness, attracting, selecting, onboarding and belonging) to help you navigate your journey.
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Awareness
These articles and resources hope to help you better understand the issues and challenges underrepresented groups face, and how you may be contributing to them (even unknowingly). Confronting any imbalances within your business with positive change will lead to increased success and growth, not only for your organisation and colleagues, but for society as a whole.
Resources in the unlocked toolkit cover: disability, class, gender, mental health, orientation, parenting, race, religion, and more.
Five D&I Questions to Consider in 2020
Whether you’re implementing a diversity and inclusion programme for the first time, developing your culture, or enhancing your own personal growth, remember that small steps can turn into big and meaningful journeys.Why All Your Inclusion Efforts Fail
There’s a reason why folks say “actions speak louder than words” and in this short post, we address the common pitfalls most companies continue to make to sabotage their own diversity and inclusion efforts.Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
Enriching your employee pool with representatives of different genders, races, and nationalities is key for boosting your company’s joint intellectual potential.Unlock our full toolkit
Join Diverse Sussex today! Highlight your organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and gain full access to our growing toolkit packed with insights, advice and resources.
Attracting
Finding it difficult to attract diversity to your business? Here are some tips and resources to help you reach underrepresented talent.
Resources in the unlocked toolkit cover: age, disability, class, race, returners and retraining, and more.
How To Write Inclusive Job Adverts
An inclusive workforce begins with the words you use in your job adverts. Far too often, job adverts form the first barrier to hire for many people. But what exactly does an inclusive job advert look like?Why Tone of Voice Matters in Job Advertising
If your job advertising tone of voice is more ‘bland’ than ‘on-brand’, then you’re missing a vital opportunity to connect with candidates. Developing your unique recruitment marketing tone of voice will help you write better job adverts: ads that engage candidates and keep their attention.Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified
Author and expert on women's leadership, Tara Mohr surveyed over a thousand men and women and asked them, “If you decided not to apply for a job because you didn’t meet all the qualifications, why didn’t you apply?”. Here are her findings.Unlock our full toolkit
Join Diverse Sussex today! Highlight your organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and gain full access to our growing toolkit packed with insights, advice and resources.
Selecting
Often our selection and interview processes aren't as inclusive as we would like to think. Here are ways to help candidates feel welcome and show their full potential, ensuring you make the best, fairest and most accurate decision for both parties.
How To Address Bias In The Recruiting Process
Let’s talk about how to address the two types of bias that can significantly impact your organisation’s diversity recruitment initiatives: unconscious bias and conscious bias.7 Must-Dos for Inclusive Interviews
Simple tweaks to your interview process can really elevate the probability of hiring more diverse candidates. Asking the same questions in the same order and comparing candidates horizontally are just a few ways you can be more inclusive.Inclusive Interviewing Best Practices
Applying inclusive principles to hiring might have you thinking this only applies to recruiting and supporting diverse candidates. And while it’s true that this will help with recruiting and hiring more diverse folks, these practices actually help everyone.Unlock our full toolkit
Join Diverse Sussex today! Highlight your organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and gain full access to our growing toolkit packed with insights, advice and resources.
Onboarding
Research by Glassdoor shows that organisations with a strong onboarding process improve new hire retention by 82% and productivity by over 70%. However, research by Gallup found that 88% of employees don't believe their organisations do a great job of onboarding. Here are tips to help you develop a more efficient onboarding process.
What Is Preboarding and How Does It Work?
If you want less first day no-shows and confident staff who are ready to start working without hesitation, then preboarding is the right solution for you.6 Ways To Give a New Employee a Great Induction
Hiring the right staff can be a bit of headache, but once you get the perfect people on board it can be all too easy to sit back, put your feet up and congratulate yourself on a job well done. But really, it’s just the beginning of your journey with your new employees, and if you want it to be a positive one you'll need to start out on the right foot.85 Questions You Should Ask New Hires on Their First Day of Work
When a new employee comes into your business they have a fresh pair of eyes and a different perspective on things. Asking the right questions on their first day of work can help you improve your own processes and make their experience a little more welcoming.Unlock our full toolkit
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Belonging
Want your business to be a place where everyone feels safe and valued? These articles, resources and initiatives are designed to help you support your colleagues and instil a genuine sense of belonging.
Resources in the unlocked toolkit cover: age, disability, class, gender, mental health, orientation, parenting, race, religion, and more.
Belonging Vs Fitting In at Workplace
In our workplace, we obsess over and talk a lot about creating a community where we feel we belong. But if we want belonging so deeply, we have to create an environment that is exact opposite of which promotes fitting in.Diversity and Inclusion: 8 Best Practices for Changing Your Culture
The tech industry still struggles with diversity and inclusion, often failing to attract diverse talent due to inclusivity issues in the workplace. For organisations looking to shape up their diversity and inclusion programmes and policies, here's how to launch a D&I initiative that works.Top 10 Ways Employers Can Demonstrate Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Communicating to employees, clients, competitors, and potential candidates the steps your organisation is taking to encourage equality and inclusivity is a proactive way to contribute to making the tech industry more diverse and less exclusive, as it has been for so long.Unlock our full toolkit
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