Inclusive Hiring Process Key Principles
Inclusive Hiring Process Best Practices
- Do not use gender biased words in the job description.
- Use people first language in the job description.
- Mention only must have skills at the right levels in the job description.
- Awareness to use people first language in the company, with hiring managers and teams.
- Awareness sessions for accessible solutions for hiring managers. For example: People with vision impairment can work on computers with screen magnifiers, screen readers and other such solutions.
- Interview for the role based on what the person needs to do, not what the person has not done earlier.
- Focus on abilities than getting biased with disabilities.
- Encourage candidates to provide accommodations needed in the resume.
- Make sure that panelists are aware about the accommodations and do the interviews accordingly.
- Provide accessible offer letters and precise as feasible.
- Onboarding sessions should be made accessible.
Detailed Step by Step Inclusive Hiring Guide
Let’s see some tips to make sure that Job Descriptions are not beyond what the role expects which also allows people with disability to apply as well.
Communication: Most of the times, we see that every JD mentions “Excellent Oral and Written Communication” is must. Do you really think, it’s must for every role unless it’s a leadership or sales manager or similar roles.
If you are hiring a developer, creative designer, digital marketer, web producer, quality engineer and other such roles, won’t basic communication work? As far as the candidate is able to communicate and understand others, it would right? You should definitely check if the candidate has good attitude to try to improve.
If as hiring manager, you mention right communication skills, people with disability will be able to apply as most of the times, they don’t get an opportunity to go to English medium private schools and might not have best English communication to start with.
You can also check, that if for a role, you can do only with written communication and mentioning the same, would allow people with speech and hearing impairment to apply as well. Such roles could be web producers (who get a document to author content in CMS) might not need a lot of oral communication, same goes for creative designers as well.
