Diversity & Inclusion
eBook: Key Tactics for Recruiting for Diversity
Creating a more inclusive workplace should be a priority for your company. However, it’s not just about doing the right thing—more diverse workplaces mean better innovation, problem-solving, and bottom lines. Goodwin Recruiting’s Vice President of Training and Development, Jessica Diamond, in collaboration with MassPay, has created an eBook to help your team foster inclusivity internally,…
Your 2021 Hiring Strategy: Are You Ready?
10 Recruitment Strategies for 2021 and 4 Easy Steps to Get Started Hiring is always a challenge. And on top of everything else going on right now, streamlining your recruiting process to combat hiring challenges and ensuring you are attracting the best candidates might seem like an overwhelming project to undertake. Below are 10 different strategies, both large and small, that…
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…
Recruiting for Diversity: Key Strategies and Tips
Your company is likely having important conversations right now surrounding diversity and inclusion. Where does everyone stand? What should the company do? Are we evaluating enough diverse candidates and creating an inclusive culture? Is it time to evaluate our recruitment process? For many companies, creating a diverse workforce does not happen overnight. Hiring managers and organizations, on the whole, have a lot to…
A 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…
Strategies 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…
6 Steps for the Recipe to the Perfect Candidate
Seeking out the perfect candidate is sometimes like trying to create a great new recipe. You know what you want. You can see the final outcome in your mind. You crave it. If only you could find a candidate with just the right blend of skills, leadership, determination, work ethic, and the right personality for…
Opinion: 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…
A 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…
Goodwin Recruiting Supports Our Trusted Clients
To all of our trusted clients, we are sending best wishes that the second half of 2020 brings an upswing, as well as positive changes representing the silver linings that can be uncovered during difficult times. We are more committed than ever to be a part of our nation’s economic and much needed social recovery,…
