DEI
How To Build A Disability And Neuro-Inclusive Hiring Process
When you design for all, everyone benefits. Accessibility and barriers to inclusion can be physical, cultural, and attitudinal. Creating a disability and neuro-friendly hiring process is essential to creating an inclusive hiring process. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to: make adaptations for disabled and neuro-diverse candidates, apply strategies for making the interview and assessment stages more accessible for all, and identify the cultural and attitudinal problems that many of these candidates face.
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Presenters Presented By
Sarah Rennie
SocialTalent Expert
SocialTalent is so proud to have Sarah within our faculty of industry experts. A celebrated thought-leader, her practical training is designed to ensure that every learner is engaged, informed, and has that lightbulb moment!
Theo Smith
SocialTalent Expert
Theo Smith is a leading Neurodiversity advocate, founder of Neurodiversity at Work Ltd, Neurodiversity Evangelist at Dynamis Group, author of the award-winning book ‘Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance, and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce’, and podcast host of Neurodiversity – Eliminating Kryptonite & Enabling Superheroes!
Yasmin Sheikh
SocialTalent Expert
Yasmin Sheikh is the founder of Diverse Matters, a consultancy that trains organizations to approach disability and health conditions (whether visible or non-visible) with confidence. She is also the vice-chair of the Law Society's Lawyers with Disabilities Division, a consultant, coach, actress, comedian, and TEDx speaker.
Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the Learning Path you will be able to:
Create a more inclusive process by having accommodations where necessary for disabled and neuro-diverse candidates.
Adjust the interview and assessment stages to be more inclusive for everyone.
Identify and understand the different cultural and attitudinal problems that candidates with disabilities or neuro-diversity face.
Missions in this Learning Path
Even though approximately one in three people are neurodivergent, most companies aren't neuro-inclusive. In this mission by author and inclusion expert Theo Smith, you will learn what is neurodiversity, why it is important and how being more neuro-inclusive will positively impact the performance and sustainability of talent within your organization.
When interviewing candidates with disabilities, they are often put at a disadvantage because of inaccessible interview places, assessment techniques, or assumptions that managers make about them. Learn from Yasmin Sheikh about the realities of interviewing disabled people, and what adjustments organizations can implement to make interviews more accessible and inclusive.
Inclusion is an active process: the actions we take to work together and co-exist in our organisation's environment is what brings out true team work, collaboration, innovation and results. However, some of the barriers to inclusion are invisible to us as we've never lived it. In this mission, you'll learn from the perspectives of Inclusion Advocates and campaigners who will broaden your perspective and show you how you can include people from every walk of life.
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