A City of Talents
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– Empowering Your DEIB Efforts
– Empowering Your DEIB Efforts
Empowering Your DEIB Efforts
The A City of Talents program is here to empower your workplace’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) efforts. Through comprehensive guides and an engaging podcast series, the Knowledge Bank equips your organization with actionable recommendations for driving real change in recruitment, retention, and the well-being of ethnic minorities in entry-level roles.
Why Focus on Graduates from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds?
Research shows that ethnic minority applicants face significant challenges when seeking job opportunities that match their qualifications, often needing to submit 50-60% more applications to secure interviews compared to their peers. While people with refugee and immigrant backgrounds are becoming more present in the Danish labor market, they tend to be overrepresented in lower-paid, unskilled roles and underrepresented in senior positions. The need for empowering DEIB efforts is clear.
Our focus on entry-level roles aims to change that trajectory. Entry-level positions typically have more flexible requirements, allowing employers to experiment with inclusive recruitment and career development strategies. By addressing entry-level representation, this program supports the creation of a sustainable, long-term pipeline of diverse talent that can grow into leadership roles, ensuring ethnic minority representation across all levels of the workplace.
Your Guide to Empowering DEIB Efforts
The Complete Guide consists of 7 subject-specific guides with the following content:
- The first six guides enhance existing recruitment, onboarding, exit processes, retention, well-being, and career development practices with a focus on graduates from ethnic minority backgrounds.
- The seventh guide connects you to additional DEIB practitioners beyond Foreningen Lige Adgang and ReSearch Humanity to further enrich your organization’s DEIB journey.
How to Use the Guides
These guides are designed to supplement your current workplace practices – hopefully empowering your DEIB efforts. They offer strategies for:
- Improving recruitment, retention, and career development for ethnic minority graduates.
- Integrating bias-blocking methods and equity-focused processes into your existing workflows.
While the guides target specific barriers faced by ethnic minorities, the principles and strategies outlined can benefit all new graduate employees, regardless of their background.
Empowering Your DEIB Efforts: The Podcast
To complement the guides, we present the podcast series, A City of Talents: Building a Diverse Talent Pipeline for Long-term Impact. In this five-episode series, we delve into the importance of adopting an intersectional approach and creating systemic change to achieve lasting results. Each episode explores how your workplace can:
- Build a diverse talent pipeline.
- Implement strategies for inclusive recruitment and onboarding.
- Retain talent while fostering well-being.
- Navigate career development for a diverse workforce.
- Drive systemic, inclusive transformation in the workplace.
Listen to the podcast on our website or through your preferred podcast app.
Our Mission – Empowering Your DEIB Efforts
We aim to bridge the gap between ethnic minority graduates and the Danish labor market by providing practical, actionable recommendations that create systemic change.
By leveraging these resources, your organization can reduce bias, promote equity, and ensure inclusive practices that can contribute to creating a pipeline of diverse talent, securing ethnic minority representation across all levels of the workplace.
The A City of Talents Knowledge Bank is brought to you by Foreningen Lige Adgang and ReSearch Humanity, funded by Beskæftigelses- og Integrationsforvaltningen in the Municipality of Copenhagen.
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