Diversity Recruitment Strategies Recruitment Tools

Diversity Recruitment Strategies Recruitment Tools Presented by: Sara E. Clemente Sosa Herencia-Heritage sclementesosa@yahoo.com 703 933 0771

Recruitment Tools • Agenda • Introductions • Why Diversity Recruitment? • Why Recruitment Tools? • Agency Needs • Definition of Recruitment • Recruitment Tools

Why Diversity Recruitment? AGENCY NEEDS

Why Recruitment Tools? AGENCY NEEDS

Recruitment Tools Agency Needs • Quality Workforce • The “Retirement Tsunami” • Workplace Diversity

Recruitment Tools Agency needs Quality Workforce Building and maintaining a quality workforce is the key to the success of any organization

Recruitment Tools Agency needs • Retirement Tsunami • The “Retirement Tsunami” is creating a shortage of staff with the right skills and experience. • We must continue to build and maintain a quality workforce.

Recruitment Tools Agency needs • Retirement Tsunami • Our increasing need of diverse skills and the fact that we will be competing for the same shrinking talent pool will require that we come up with tools to address the impact of the wave

Recruitment Tools Agency needs WORKPLACE DIVERSITY

Recruitment Tools Agency needs Workplace Diversity • The Federal Government strives to be a model employer by building and maintaining a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of the Nation but still has more work to do. • Federal agencies have an obligation and opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to having the best workforce possible -- one that is diverse and of high quality -- to conduct the Nation's business

Recruitment Tools Agency needs Workplace Diversity • The Federal Government strives to be a model employer by building and maintaining Workplace Diversity • Diversity has evolved from sound public policy to a strategic business imperative. It is an issue that requires more attention and support within the Federal workplace

Recruitment Tools What is Recruitment ? • An effort to hire a high caliber of talent to fill a position • An effort to promote employment opportunities with the purpose of attracting talent to apply for a position - Recruitment May Be Synonymous To Outreach -

Recruitment Tools RECRUITMENT TOOLS

Recruitment Tools Commitment • Commitment is the foundation of a successful effort to build and maintain a diverse, high-quality workforce. This commitment should be clearly stated and communicated from the “Top Leadership” to employees at all levels.

Recruitment ToolsCommitment • Needs to be demonstrated through actions: • Encourage a leadership that creates an environment of inclusion and values differences. • Assign adequate resources to their recruitment activities. An agency could choose to clearly identify resources in its budget to recruitment initiatives. • Ensure that senior managers are directly involved in planning and conducting diversity activities. • Ensure that employees are an integral part of the agency's efforts to recruit.

Recruitment Tools • Knowledge • Understand your potential employees “…Our youngest leaders matured in the glow of computer skills; our oldest in the shadow of the Depression And World War II …” Bennis & Thomas 2002

Recruitment Tools • Knowledge • Understand your potential employees • Generations: • Veterans/Traditionalists • Baby Boomers • Generation X • Generation Y • Generation ñ

Recruitment Tools • Knowledge • Provide candidates with accurate & complete information, • Know what you have to offer • Employment Opportunities • Incentives • Career development programs

Recruitment Tools MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVE 715 • The MD-715 provides a roadmap for creating effective equal employment opportunity (EEO) programs for all Federal employees. The MD-715 also provides a summary of challenges that we face in attaining the status of a model agency.

Recruitment Tools MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVE 715 The MD-715 usually highlights workforce (including the breakdown of EEO groups (race and national origin/gender/disability status), occupational categories, and grades compared to the U.S. Civilian Labor Force); deficiencies as it relates to the requirements for a “model EEO Program” and barriers that identify regarding the employment of minorities, females, and persons with disabilities.

Recruitment Tools • Student Programs (studentjobs.gov) • Student Temporary Education Program (STEP) • Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) • Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) • Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) Program • Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)

Recruitment Tools • US Department of Education • College Navigator – National Center for Education Statistics A free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about nearly

Recruitment ToolsCollege Navigator • Enrollment • Race & Ethnicity • Programs & Majors • Retention & graduation Rates • Accreditation • Attendance (Gender )

College NavigatorNational Center for EducationStatistics http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/

Recruitment Strategies

Recruitment Tools • Recruitment On Campus • Align yourself with business units • Establish relationships with career centers and faculty • Build relationships with student clubs • Communicate effectively with students • “Listen & Learn” Consider student feedback • Promote/Use the Student Employment Educational Programs

Recruitment Tools • Federal Jobs by College Majorhttp://www.usajobs.gov/EI/jobsbycollegemajor.asp • To help you choose the right career field, OPM has prepared a table that groups Federal jobs that are often filled by college graduates with appropriate academic majors. • The jobs listed under each major are usually examples, not an all-inclusive list. • Many jobs do not require a college degree; job-related experience is just as good. • Many people can qualify for a large number of administrative jobs with a degree in any academic major. The table list of some of the most popular jobs for which any major is qualifying.

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Diversity Recruitment Strategies Recruitment Tools