Insights on diversity hiring

1. Insights on Diversity Hiring

2. What a woman wants?
What do females care about most in organizations?

3. Female Professionals value different things compared to their male peers
Value Propositions Ranked by Importance

4. Source Diverse Talent
with
LinkedIn Recruiter
4

5. Search 3. Save as a custom filter for easy reference later
1. Build primary Boolean search string to identify female
talent
2. Use advanced search filters to target diverse universities
4. Let LinkedIn continue to do the work for you and your team
by using saved searches setting search alerts

6. Build out Boolean search strings
Diversity Identifier
(“Cloud” OR Saas OR “Dev ops”) AND (she OR her OR herself OR
women OR woman OR female OR females OR “Maternity Leave”
OR “maternity break” OR “Parental Leave” OR “Mrs” OR “Mrs.”
OR “Miss” OR “kaur”)
✓ Input key words that are “must-haves”
and replace them in the search string for
the orange words above
✓ As a team, build a list of diverse LinkedIn
groups & national affiliations

7. Build out Boolean search strings
Exercise
Type in the keywords covered in the above slides and take a
moment to capture what unique things that come out of the
searches.
The one I found when I typed ‘female’ as a keyword – A profile
which says Won best female singer , IFIM B-School, 2008

8. Boolean search strings – Indian names
“Priyanka" OR "Tanya" OR "divya" OR "Tanvi" OR "priya" OR "Riya" OR "Aishwarya" OR
"Sneha" OR "Shreya" OR "Gayatri" OR "Vani" OR "Krithika" OR "nishi" OR "shivani" OR
"anjali" OR "shivangi" OR "Radhika" OR "ishita" OR "Anushri" OR "Sakshi" OR "Niharika"
OR "Anusha" OR "seema" OR "Suhani" OR "ananya" OR "natasha" OR "Varsha" OR "leah"
OR "Pavithra" OR "swati" OR "Tisha" OR "Sam" OR "Akansha" OR "keerthi" OR "Angel" OR
"Neelam" OR "Lavanya" OR "Manasa" OR "hannah" OR "Kalyani" OR "binita" OR "ria" OR
"Anisha" OR "Urvashi" OR "diya" OR "jiffy" OR "Isha" OR "AARUSHI" OR "Gowri" OR "Eli"
OR "Gitanjali" OR "Alice" OR "arti" OR "Sonam" OR "Sadaf" OR "Namrata" OR "debbie" OR
"indhumathi" OR "Sowmya" OR "Mahima" OR "Siya" OR "Ayushi" OR "shrinidhi" OR "Ira"
OR "Nishita" OR "vidhya" OR "Rutuja" OR "Lily" OR "Chandralekha" OR "suvi" OR
"ARCHITA" OR "ANJU" OR "Manasi" OR "Richa" OR "ramya" OR "N.Priyanka" OR
"pradeepa" OR "Lish" OR "Anushree" OR "simran" OR "sasashy" OR "Katherine" OR
"ishika" OR "jasmine" OR "Prachi" OR "krittika" OR "sanjana" OR "deepa" OR "diksha" OR
"Mitali" OR "kavya" OR "NISHA" OR "Dilmini" OR "Rishita" OR "sania" OR "kamalika" OR
"Khushi"

9. Use advanced search filters to target
universities with diverse talent

10. Leverage Diversity Education Institutes
Women's engineering colleges in India
▪ Bhoj Reddy Engineering College for Women
▪ Biyani International Institute of Engineering & Technology
▪ Government Mahila Engineering College
▪ Greentech College of Engineering for Women
▪ Idhaya Engineering College for Women
▪ Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (Delhi)
▪ L B S Institute of Technology for Women
▪ Madhuben and Bhanubhai Patel Women Institute of Engineering
▪ MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women
▪ Mody University of Science & Technology
▪ P. S. R. Rengasamy college of engineering for women
▪ Rajasthan College of Engineering for Women
▪ Sree Buddha College of Engineering for Women
▪ Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women
▪ Women's Institute of Technology

11. Leverage Diversity Groups
Women, LGBT, People with Disabilities
Women
▪ Women's Wear Daily
▪ Women 2.0
▪ Woman 2 Woman Business
▪ women-in-business.net
▪ An Empowered Woman
▪ WomanLink
People with Disabilities
▪ Professionals with Disabilities
▪ Disabled American Veterans
▪ Disability Advocates
▪ Association of Disabled Professionals UK
▪ Disabled Staff Professionals South Africa
▪ Disabled Professional
▪ Disabled Professionals Japan
▪ UK Disabled Professionals Seeking EmploymentLGBT
▪ NetworkingLGBT
▪ LGBT Nederland
▪ LGBT Social Network
▪ New York LGBT Professional Network
▪ Danish LGBT Business Network
▪ Europe- LGBT Professional

12. Leverage Diversity Groups
Middle Eastern
▪ Arab Professionals in Finance, Banking, Investments &
Capital Markets
▪ Arab Entrepreneurs & Investors
▪ United Arab Emirates Business and Professional
Network
▪ UAE Professional Networkers Group
▪ Arab Telecommunication Professionals
▪ Arab Business Club
▪ Saudi Arabia NetWork
▪ Saudi Arabia Networking & Career Opportunities
▪ Saudi Arabia Business and Professional Network
Indian
▪ India Leadership Network
▪ India Jobs Network
▪ Young Indian Entrepreneurs
▪ India Software Brief
▪ India Job Careers & Networking
▪ Indian Startups

13. Utilize custom filters to increase efficiency
Allow your team quick access to group-specific search criteria
✓ Create custom filters based on
Schools and Groups
✓ Save your search with custom
filters to a project.

14. Let LinkedIn Recruiter do the work for you
Leverage saved searches and search alerts across your team
✓ Once you’ve found a search that is
yielding strong candidates, set a search
alert and LinkedIn will notify you of new
candidates who fit your search criteria.
✓ You can save an unlimited number of
searches and you can set up to 50 search
alerts.
✓ Share your project across your team to
enable everyone to take advantage of
your best saved searches.

15. 15
Leverage your followers
Filter by profiles
following your
company before
running a search for
executives
Followers of your company are 71% more
likely to want to hear about employment
opportunities

16. Groups
2. Post jobs in diversity groups to gain visibility
3. Join diverse groups, then engage. Post and comment in
groups and demonstrate how you celebrate diverse talent
4. Consider other diversity organizations you have partnered
with and tap into these LinkedIn communities
1. Build a list of diversity groups