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Diversity in Staffing: Leaders as multicultural as the workforce make a difference

The Staffing Stream

The report shows the large gaps in the US staffing industry and presents initiatives and best practices to help firms advance women as leaders and build more diverse, better-performing organizations. When I first joined Genesis10 in 2008, I was impressed with the overall number of women in leadership roles.

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3 Reasons Why Diversity Pledges End in Broken Promises

Visier - Talent Acquisition

Building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization has become a business imperative, with many organizations now publicly pledging their commitment to diversity. The spotlight on issues around gender and racial diversity has magnified the importance for organizations to do more.

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Recyclegate at Lord & Taylor: A corporate whistleblower story

Uncubed

Back in 2008, I was 4 years into my life at Lord and Taylor. They hired intelligent people, the workforce was more diverse as a %TTL than any company I’ve interacted with since. Overall, L+T was a great employer. They had plenty of women in leadership. There were dinners, fashions shows and plenty of discounts on clothing.

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3 Myths About Working Women That Are Hurting Your Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Linkedin Talent Blog

“Adding women to work teams tempers risky behavior like the financial gambles that crashed the economy in 2008,” says Joanne. As Joanne points out, gender-diverse leadership teams can yield greater financial returns than those with homogeneous leadership. Awareness and understanding are crucial to diversity and inclusion.

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Me! Before hireEZ: Sarah Fung, Former Structural Engineer Reinvents Herself

Hiretual

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Diversity Analysis. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Diversity Analysis. After seeing the devastating impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and 2008 Sichuan earthquake in the news, Sarah was inspired to help strengthen the structures (i.e.

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How to Spend Your Recruitment Marketing Budget in 2023

Rally Recruitment Marketing

For example, what are your diversity objectives? In addition, the CMO Survey, which has been around since 2008, found that Marketing budgets as a percent of the company’s overall budget has risen to an all-time high of 13.8%, driven the pandemic’s acceleration of digital strategies. Are you trying to decrease turn-over?

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The October Jobs Report: Why You Need A Focused Approach to Hiring Talent 

Hireology

With a national unemployment rate of 6.9%, we continue to inch closer to pre-pandemic levels of employment, and have made it back to the level of unemployment that we saw two to three years after the 2008 recession. Additionally, the amount of people unemployed for 15 to 26 weeks decreased by 2.3 million to 2.6 million individuals.

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