Posts Tagged ‘Dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion’
Why People Turn Down Job Offers
As this global pandemic continues, national unemployment is hovering around 7%. The lowest unemployment rate, as of October 2020, was in Nebraska (at 3%), and the highest was in Nevada (12%) and Hawaii (14.3%). With so many people looking for new roles either due to losing their jobs or fear that they will not be…
Read MoreA Personal Goodwin Recruiting Story of Diversity and Inclusion
This blog is a departure from our norm. It’s a Goodwin Recruiting story of diversity and inclusion told in the first person. Let me start by stating that I’m a married gay man in my sixties. I was in my late fifties when I applied to Goodwin in 2013 to be a Recruiter. I had…
Read MoreStrategies to Improve Recruitment for Diversity in Hospitality
Narrowly defined, diversity means having a variety of types of people in a group. If only it were so simple. Businesses are increasingly attempting to hire in ways that broaden the talent pool in a workplace in order to have diversified perceptions and thinking. When more broadly defined, diversity reveals the challenges of achieving this…
Read MoreOpinion: Personal Inventory
Can you be Passively Racist? I am a free-thinking, environmentally conscious mother of three grown children, and if you had asked me that question 25 years ago, I would have said no. Racists are easily identifiable, right? Racism, at least to me, was intentional and carried an agenda of focused division, oppression, and discrimination. That…
Read MoreA Map & Compass Will Get Us to Our Destination
We all make choices in life. Choices produce results — both good and bad. The best results come from comparing decisions against your personal or corporate compass. There’s lots of talk about a moral compass, which sounds like it applies to the big decisions, but it applies to all decisions. A person or company’s compass…
Read MoreGoodwin Recruiting Is Dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion
In June of 2020, Goodwin Recruiting added “Dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion” to our Core Values. We realized that it wasn’t enough to have personal beliefs that support equality and diverse representation. Our Core Values have always been extremely important to us, but also actionable. As soon as we made this addition to our list,…
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