Increasing ethnic diversity in both your hiring process and your organisation as a whole can take time and persistence, but you're in the right place to move the needle. Many recruiters forget that the job boards chosen to advertise a role can influence how many minority candidates apply. Therefore, more inclusive employers are focusing on job posting sites as a way to diversify their talent pools.
Having now had over 100,000 candidates apply for jobs through our platform, Applied can leverage its data to share which job boards appear to be best for showcasing a pool of ethnically diverse job hunters. Curious to know how we came up with this list? We wrote a blog about it here.
By using 'diversity performance' as a way to evaluate job boards, recruiters can align every aspect of the hiring process with their efforts to create an inclusive workforce. They can review their typical job board with a fresh pair of eyes and identify pain points in their diversity recruitment strategy. This will ensure that their candidate pool includes a broad range of talented people and traditionally underrepresented candidates. It's also worth mentioning that having a diverse workforce has proven financial benefits. Research has found that diversity can improve retention rates, as well as innovation and profitability.
If you're looking to do more than just advertise in the right space, Applied provides a Job Description Analysis Tool which makes writing inclusive and gender-neutral job descriptions a whole bunch easier.
Advance Careers
Advance Careers is a job board aimed at young people early in their careers.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 62 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Evenbreak
Evenbreak is a job board focused on offering roles to disabled people who can be confident that employers choosing to use Evenbreak are serious about looking beyond disabilities to identify the skills an individual has to offer.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 56 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Escape the City
Escape The City sells tired city workers the dream of finding a fulfilling and exciting role, new career path or opportunity to set up a business.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 58 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Rate My Apprenticeship
RateMyApprenticeship is a resource for students, schools and parents that aims to educate young people about their career options and provide feedback on apprenticeships.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 52 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
LinkedIn is a professional network, and it offers a range of services, including employers posting jobs.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 54 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Applied is a blind recruitment platform focused on quality and diversity of hire. We use applicant tracking to see which job boards our candidates come from, and can combine this at a high level with the assessment scores and diversity breakdown of those groups of candidates from our platform.
We decided to democratise this data to help teams source high-quality candidates and make the fairest possible hiring decisions, free of unconscious bias. Please treat it as indicative at the moment, but we’ve written a bit more about what the data is, where it comes from and what it is not, here.
This is just one of a wide range of data-driven hiring resources that we've created as part of our mission to make hiring more ethical, empiric and efficient.
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