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Any suggestions on how to use sourcing to help reduce signs of adverse impact on pre-employment testing? We are having a tuff time obtaining diversity candidates or getting the diversity candidates wh
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Sourcing and Adverse Impact
posted at 4/24/2009 10:34 AM EDT
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First: 4/24/2009 Last: 4/27/2009 |
Any suggestions on how to use sourcing to help reduce signs of adverse impact on pre-employment testing? We are having a tuff time obtaining diversity candidates or getting the diversity candidates who can pass the test apply? Please share your thoughts. |
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Sourcing and Adverse Impact
posted at 4/24/2009 2:50 PM EDT
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First: 1/26/2006 Last: 11/15/2010 |
Hi:
Many of employers' hiring practices will tend to exhibit an adverse impact (e.g., criminal background checks, educational requirements, credit checks, certain assessments, physical requirements, experience requirements). As a result, employers need to ensure that these hiring procedures (as well as those without an adverse impact from a pragmatic standpoint) are job related and consistent with business necessity. I trust this is helpful. Dave Arnold, Ph.D., J.D. |
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Sourcing and Adverse Impact
posted at 4/27/2009 5:33 AM EDT
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First: 3/19/2008 Last: 10/15/2009 |
Ideas--
Job fairs and college recruitment at colleges with reasonable-sized minority populations. Cast as wide a net as possible when advertising for openings. Go beyond the internet. Employee referral incentives. My employer has a quarterly lottery for all employees who have referred a new hire. And they have really great prizes. |
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Sourcing and Adverse Impact
posted at 4/27/2009 7:38 AM EDT
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I have to throw in some caution about the employee referral program. While its a great tool to cost effectively attract candidates, there is some downside.
People tend to associate with other people with similar characteristics. Since referrals will likely come from these associations, it follows that the referrals will tend to mirror the demographics of your current workforce. If you've already acheived your diversity goals and/or you're very satisfied with the quality of your workforce, this can be a very good thing to continue in that direction. But if you're looking to change directions - eg, try to get more diversity - then an ERP may not be the best avenue. |
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Sourcing and Adverse Impact
posted at 5/14/2009 9:08 AM EDT
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I am assuming the pre-employment assessment tests technical abilties, not soft skills. While we dont use preemployment tests, our employees are required to have a masters degree. We struggle filling our cultural or language specific positions because of the language requirement. We have found that local universities are the best recruitment source and we leverage these univerisities to the best of our ability.
Each of our managers is assigned to maintain a professional relationship with a specific college or university. Their direct reports may speak at round tables, give a small lecture, provide informational interviews, leed a small volunteer project to get students familiar with our programs, etc. On the recruitment end, I visit all of the associates and bachelors level student internship fairs in the area, not to recruit, but to educate students on the high demand for bilingual abilities. Our executive team now offers paid internships for bilingual and/or bicultural interns in the masters programs (approx $9000/year). We use our faculty contacts to advertise the postions during class time. When we offer the interns positions upon graduation, they stay on average three times longer than those who we hire via other sources and hit the ground running upon being hired. We also use simplicity to recruit from schools that have high diversity populations. I am not sure if these ideas will work for you but I hope that helps. |
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