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EuzenConnect
Company Level: Any SizeType: ImplementationEuzenConnect helps employers find diverse, motivated, and work-ready talent. They use a multi-lingual, text-based communication process to ensure even the 50% of our residents that do not have a computer and internet or who operate exclusively from a smart-phone can access employment. They partner closely with dozens of social service programs that are ensuring folks are stable and ready to work. They offer an affordable and simple way for recruiting teams to expand their reach and broaden their talent pools.
EuzenConnect is equipped to serve all employers, both for and non-profit organizations.
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Team Member Resource Groups
Company Level: Mid-size employer (250-1000 total employees)Type: ImplementationTeam Member Resource Groups (TMRG) are groups of team members who share a common interest to help support the business. They can be used to Recruit, Retain, Engage, and Grow talent.
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HireReach
Company Level: Mid-size employer (250-1000 total employees)Type: ImplementationTalent First and West Michigan Works! have collaborated to create HireReach, a program designed to help employers meet their talent needs using a skills-based hiring process. A skills-based approach to hiring assesses the whole person, not just their resume. Candidates are evaluated using a variety of tools, together with education, work history and other relevant data, to get a better prediction of a candidates’ ability to not just perform but succeed. HireReach provides organizations with a framework, tools, and support to develop and implement a skills-based hiring process proven to reduce first-year turnover, reduce time to fill and increase the size and diversity of their talent pool.
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Corewell Health | Inclusion Resource Group Guiding Principles
Company Level: Mid-size employer (250-1000 total employees)Type: Informational and ImplementationAt Corewell Health, Inclusion Resource Groups (IRGs) are employee-led and are formed around common demographics, characteristics or shared interests. They foster a more inclusive work environment, advance business objectives, provide professional development opportunities for members, strengthen brand reputation, and much more.
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Together We Make Things Happen: EY Professional Networks Guide
Company Level: Large employer (over 1000 total employees)Type: ImplementationEY provides an example of how to implement professional networks within an organization. EY professional networks are organizations formed around a shared set of interests, experiences or perspectives. Professional networks help us to be diverse, in part by serving as an important recruiting tool. But they also make EY inclusive. While networks support firm diversity and inclusiveness goals, they also help members individually to learn about differences as well as each other and on the basis of shared interest in those differences.
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TalentFirst | Leading Practices for Hiring Returning Citizens
Company Level: Any SizeType: ImplementationWest Michigan employers should take advantage of the opportunity to hire returning citizens and reconsider restrictive policies they have against hiring people with criminal histories. This practice addresses a variety of problems for employers and communities alike. This report highlights leading practices for how to hire from this talent pool.
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MDOC: Vocational Village
Company Level: Any SizeType: ImplementationThe Vocational Village is a first-of-its-kind skilled trades training program that aims to provide a positive learning community for prisoners who are serious about completing career and technical education.
The Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia (1728 W Bluewater Hwy, Ionia, MI 48846) has a skills training program for prisoners nearing the end of their incarceration period in order to provide them career readiness skills. Inmates in good standing are able to apply and be selected for the program. Over a 12-month period, the inmates complete formal classroom and hands on “lab style” training in programs such as the following: Electrical, Carpentry, Plumbing, Welding, CNC Programming, Robotics, CDL/Forklift, Masonry and Auto Repair. They also receive training in job readiness skills such as teamwork, communication, interviewing, etc.
As they near the end of their incarceration term, they are available for interviews and placement into a career. Employers can work with an Employment Counselor by contacting the center at (616)-527-3100 ext. 5273-472 to conduct interviews onsite or schedule them for post release interviews. Returning Citizens can receive help with transportation and housing post release through the Ionia Village to help ensure they have a strong start.
Employers who hire Returning Citizens may be eligible for the Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit.
If you would like more information on the West Michigan employers engaged in hiring Returning Citizens or employer information on how to best integrate Returning Citizens, you can check out The National Reentry Resource Center at https://csgjusticecenter.org/n...
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If there is only one woman in your candidate pool there is statistically no chance she’ll be hired.
Company Level: Any SizeType: InformationalDespite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white men. Harvard Business Review conducted three studies to examine what happens when you change the status quo among finalists for a job position and shares the results in this article.
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Want more workforce diversity? Erase the jargon from your job descriptions.
Company Level: Any SizeType: ImplementationMany companies, especially in industries like tech and finance, struggle to increase the number of minorities and women in their ranks—even while consciously trying to close the race or gender gap. Business and tech slang make up a good portion of the words and phrases that commonly turn off diverse candidates. Software could be a solution.
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MiCareer Quest
Company Level: Any SizeType: ImplementationMiCareerQuest is annual event held in the Spring and it offers 8,000+ area students the opportunity to connect with employers in four growing industries in West Michigan: Construction, Advanced Manufacturing, Health Care and Information Technology. The event allows employers to showcase their industry and career opportunities and paths to a diverse population of students in Middle and High School from across multiple counties in West Michigan. Companies participate to help build a long-term pipeline of diverse talent for future career openings.
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