How to create a more inclusive hiring experience for applicants from ethnically marginalised groups
The talent acquisition process is often a daunting experience for folks from ethnically marginalised groups. Even before your candidate gets into the interview room, they’ve had to navigate assumptions about their name, location, education, and many other details that relate to their individual identity. Once they get into the interview room, they experience a whole […]
How to create an inclusive hiring experience for applicants with disabilities
For people with disabilities, there are barriers to inclusion everywhere. Sometimes they’re physical barriers, like not being able to get into buildings or facilities. But a lot of the time, people with disabilities experience attitudinal, communication, policy, transportation, and social barriers, too. In the workplace, both of these often exist simultaneously, often without organisations realising […]
Don’t use ChatGPT to write your job adverts. Here’s why.
ChatGPT has found itself in the eye of a media storm recently. With stories seeing the tool being used from anything to crafting airline complaint emails to business presentations, and writing books, it seems that the uses are endless for the AI-based platform’s ability to simplify some of the most mundane tasks. For time-pressed recruitment […]
How Develop Diverse avoids AI bias
We’ve all heard the horror stories about AI. It should sound like something from a movie, but from self-driving cars running over civilians to facial recognition technology wrongly classifying world-class athletes as criminals, most of us approach AI with a huge pinch of caution. But as AI increasingly becomes part of the way we operate […]
Why unconscious bias training alone can’t fix your diversity and inclusion issues
When organisations get started with their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy, their first port of call is usually unconscious bias training. It’s a totally logical place to start — because we all need knowledge to help us understand what causes bias at work, and how to be more inclusive towards others. The problem is, […]
Why international organisations fall short on inclusion
Managing diversity and inclusion strategy in an international context will always feel like a challenging task. With so many different office locations, time zones, and languages, your organisation needs to operate across a range of geographical and cultural boundaries to create a cohesive, thriving company that operates to its full potential. But one misconception we […]
Why some words are gender biased — and how to use language to build inclusion
We often hear the phrase ‘words aren’t biased’. And in many ways, that’s entirely correct — they’re not. A word like ‘ambition’, or ‘kind’, for example, viewed by itself is… just a word. But when we view them through a sociocultural lens, things get a bit trickier. The word ‘ambition’ is more likely to bring […]
Why hiring for culture fit won’t help you build an inclusive company
As humans, we’re biologically programmed to like people that are most like us. It’s an unconscious shortcut our brain makes. And it’s exactly the same in the hiring process. All too often, organisations unconsciously make hiring decisions that mean they pick the person that fits in best with their existing environment. This is known as […]
How we define and identify ethnically marginalised ethnic stereotypes in the Develop Diverse platform
As a society, we all share a natural desire to be part of a collective identity. We attach labels to ourselves that help us make sense of who we are, and carve out our place in society. But often, these labels come with a whole set of biases, stereotypes, and discrimination attached — especially when […]
How stereotypes harm inclusion at work
Right from a very early age, we’re all surrounded by stereotypes. Whether it’s a nurturing mother figure, a cartoon character, or the famous ‘draw a scientist’ experiment, these generalised beliefs about the world around us shape our worldview on a conscious and unconscious level. We’ve often accepted them as just being part of how our […]
