DE&I Employer Toolkit

Recruitment, Retention, Development & Advancement

The West Michigan region of the Trinity Health system implemented innovative talent acquisition processes that simultaneously improved quality of hire (reduced first-year turnover) and increased…
The Kent and Ottawa Intermediate School Districts have a variety programs targeted at increasing student awareness around post high school careers and education and connecting…
MiCareerQuest 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…
Many 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…
Despite 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…
The 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…
West Michigan employers should take advantage of the opportunity to hire returning citizens and reconsider restrictive policies they have against hiring people with criminal histories….
TalentFirst 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….
EuzenConnect 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…
According to both quantitative and qualitative data, working African Americans — from those laboring in factories and on shop floors to those setting C-suite strategy…