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Whether you’re a hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a growing startup, it’s your job to build the best team possible. While every company has different hiring needs, building a team made up of diverse individuals is essential no matter the company size or department. But finding great candidates from a variety of backgrounds isn’t always easy, especially if a team is fairly homogenous to begin with. However, there are many companies that are getting it right, and their documented diversity recruiting strategies are great examples of how to approach hiring. There are a number of ways to design your hiring process to increase diversity but you have to start somewhere – here are the strategies of 24 companies to model your own processes after.

In order to recruit top talent—and protect your brand—it’s critical that you invest in creating a positive candidate experience. It may not seem like the most important consideration in your recruitment process, but a negative candidate experience can lead to significant financial consequences. With today’s student job seekers expecting even more from companies in regards to communication and personalization, how can you ensure your process fits their needs?

Campus recruitment teams face many challenges. Two of the biggest concerns are identifying talent early and keeping candidates engaged. Of course, ensuring that candidates have a positive experience is also important. But with a shifting recruitment landscape and a need to consistently meet hiring deadlines, how can talent acquisition teams manage these responsibilities?

Increasing diversity isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s a business one, as well. Companies with a diverse workforce see higher revenues and are more likely to be measured as innovative leaders in their industries. Showing a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion is also essential to attracting the talent that leads to innovative and standout results, with 67% of job seekers citing diversity is an important factor when considering a company.

In order to recruit and retain a diverse workforce, you must start at the entry-level. Gen Z makes up the most diverse workforce yet, but focusing on traditional recruiting pipelines may make it difficult to hire students from underrepresented backgrounds. By hiring primarily from a few core schools, you could be missing out on a lot of great talent who attend smaller or less well-known colleges. One way to increase your diversity hiring at the entry level is to partner with organizations that support underrepresented minorities. There are countless organizations that provide support, resources, and training to diverse candidates, and many are happy to work with corporate partners. By supporting these organizations, your company can not only provide training and assistance to underrepresented candidates, but you can open up your pipeline and hire interns and entry-level employees directly from their membership base. Here are 28 diversity-focused organizations to partner with.

After more than a year of hosting events almost exclusively online, we’ve all learned a thing or two about what works and what doesn’t. However, what kept students engaged at the beginning of the pandemic may not be enough now that so many are suffering from Zoom fatigue and struggling to balance overprogramming. Whether you’re looking to improve your virtual recruitment events or are hoping to wow your summer interns, it’s important to reevaluate and refresh your virtual event strategy.

Women earn almost half of all business degrees (46%) awarded annually, meaning a large pool of talented female candidates are continuously entering the workforce. One of the best ways to tap into this pool is to recruit from women’s colleges.

Despite making up nearly 60% of undergraduate enrollment, women only receive around 31% of computer science degrees awarded in the U.S. every year. Therefore, recruiting a gender-balanced slate of top computer science talent can prove challenging. However, all women’s colleges provide a great solution to this problem.

Today, women make up nearly 60% of undergraduate enrollment in colleges across the United States — a major increase since the 1960s when just 41% of higher education students were female. While most colleges today are coeducational, there are just over 30 women-only colleges remaining in the United States and Canada (down from 230 schools in 1960), according to the Women's College Coalition. These schools offer their students a unique cultural and academic experience. Women’s colleges enroll hundreds of thousands of college students yearly, with accepted students from all backgrounds.