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Attract, Develop, and Retain More Underrepresented Talent

Although organisations may know that diverse teams outperform their counterparts on a variety of measures, including greater innovation and better financial performance, they are unable to find ways to attract underrepresented talent to capitalise on these benefits.

When they do hire employees from diverse backgrounds, they face the challenge of how to best develop and retain them. Despite best efforts, many companies struggle to create a culture, as well as support services, that makes employees want to stay.

Symmetra provides proven solutions to transform your hiring and retention practices and policies to make them more equitable and welcoming and build a company culture that nurtures and empowers your diverse team.

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Why It’s So Hard to Attract, Hire, and Retain Diverse Talent

Insufficient awareness and/or urgency

Many organisations simply do not understand the importance and necessity of building a diverse workplace in today’s business world

Lack of brand alignment with DEI values

Organisations that do not seem to be explicitly prioritising diversity and equity, and do not seem welcoming to all individuals will often be overlooked by talent looking to work in an inclusive environment.

Narrow recruitment pools

When hiring, all too often are candidates chosen from limited talent pools or within networks of friends and colleagues instead of casting a wide net to engage a broader talent pool.

Rigid HR systems and processes

Although the need to change talent acquisition practices is recognised, inflexible systems and processes that have long been in place may prevent meaningful and sustainable change from taking place.
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Why Traditional DEI Approaches Are Not Enough

Although there are many DEI approaches that organisation can employ to improve talent acquisition and retention, most of them do very little to create sustainable cultures, systems, and processes of inclusion that attract and retain underrepresented talent.

Many of these approaches fails because there is a lack of understanding of the problems that exist within organisation’s hiring practices or not enough awareness of what inclusive hiring looks like. For those organisations that are aware of the faults in talent acquisition and recruitment, there is often not enough buy-in either because leaders are looking for easy fixes to big problems or they are afraid to change the status quo due to potential blowback from their peers.

How Symmetra Can Help

With over 20 years of experience in DEI training, the team at Symmetra helps our clients to build cultures, systems, and processes of inclusion that spreads throughout all their hiring and employee management systems and practices, resulting in greater employee satisfaction, loyalty, and performance.

Symmetra’s offers the strategy, guidance, training, and tools to engage and motivate leaders of an organisation to step up and reshape their talent acquisition processes. In addition, we help our clients to build a culture where individual differences are valued and all employees are treated equally and receive the same opportunities for growth and advancement.

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  • How We Help
    • Inclusive & Equitable Systems
      • Organisational Diagnostics
      • DEI Strategy and Advice
      • Inclusive Hiring and Talent Systems
      • Empowering Change Agents
    • Inclusive Leadership
      • Getting Leadership Buy-In
      • Inclusive Leadership Index Assessment
      • Inclusive Leadership Journeys
      • Inclusion Coaching
      • Inclusion Foundations
    • Inclusive Teams & Culture
      • Team Inclusion Assessments
      • Inclusion Skills Development
      • Digital and Scalable Learning
      • Team Coaching
      • Reflect AI
  • DEI Challenges
    • DEI Strategy that Works
    • Integrating DEI into Systems
    • Leadership Buy-In
    • Sustaining Inclusion Habits
    • Attract and Retain Diverse Talent
  • Why Symmetra?
    • Our Approach
    • Our Impact
    • Our Team
    • Careers
  • Learning Hub
    • DEI Insights
    • Inclusive Hiring Roadmap
    • Respect at work
    • Worker Protection Blueprint
    • Events
  • Contact Us
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