10 Resources for Building More Diverse Tech Companies
If an employee were to ask what your company is doing about its diversity problem, how would you answer?
Would you say that there are not enough qualified candidates? Or that diversity isn’t a priority for the company right now? Or that, actually, the company doesn’t have a diversity problem?
Or, like Peter Thiel, would you say, “I don’t know what to do about it.”
Thankfully, there are a whole host of resources to support companies in learning about, prioritizing, and recruiting for diversity. Here are 10 tools to help your company source a more diverse talent pipeline.
Jopwell is a career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals. By becoming a Jopwell partner, companies can post job listings, host events and curate Employer pages to reach the Jopwell community.
Change Catalyst hosts events, consults with companies, and creates resources in order to build inclusive tech ecosystems around the world. Attend an upcoming Tech Inclusion Conference to learn best practices, or sign up to attend a Tech Inclusion Career Fair.
Tech Ladies connects women with the best jobs and opportunities in tech, and connects companies with the best techmakers. Tech Ladies partners can post jobs that reach over 30,000 members who work in product, engineering, design, marketing, business development, ops and more.
Blendoor is a merit-based matching engine to connect companies with a pool of over 10,000 qualified diverse candidates. Their software displays candidate profiles without names or photos to reduce unconscious bias, collects data on where bias may happen in the recruiting pipeline, and helps companies position themselves to attract diverse talent.
U.S. Tech Vets connects Veterans, including transitioning military personnel and their spouses, with meaningful jobs in America’s technology industry. With about 250,000 Veterans transitioning to civilian life annually, U.S. Tech Vets provides a way for the technology community to find and hire top quality talent.
Gender Decoder is a free and easy to use tool created by Kat Matfield that checks inputted job descriptions against a gendered word list. Simply copy the text of a job description and paste it into Gender Decoder to see if the posting is coded as more female or male.
<div>ersity is platform that connects technical talent to companies that value inclusion and diversity. In addition to their job postings and company profiles, the <div>ersity blog features thought leadership pieces from underrepresented voices in tech and their resource list indexes a large number of diversity and inclusion conferences.
Entelo is a recruiting automation platform with diversity recruiting features baked in. Their tools surface underrepresented talent, enable diversity tracking, and keep clients compliant.
DIVERSEability Magazine boasts one of the largest job posting sites for people with disabilities. Join companies like Netflix, Slack, and Square in recruiting candidates from the disability talent pool.
TalVista is a data-driven hiring platform for building more diverse and inclusive teams. By optimizing job descriptions, redacting personal identifiers, and structuring interviews, their tools help remove bias from the recruiting process.
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