✅ The Allyance newsletter provides useful references on recruitment, diversity and inclusion. What follows are some stimulating reads on parenthood, senior women inclusion, diversity reports, sourcing techniques and racism.

PARENTHOOD

🐇 If you have been reading this newsletter for a while, you know how addressing parenthood at work matters to The Allyance. To create an inclusive workplace, companies must support parents and caregivers. El País published an excellent article  full of data and testimonies on how parents, and especially mothers, feel burnt out. Even though it is a non-clinical term, parental exhaustion does exist and “an Ohio University report, published in May, claims that 66% of working parents fit this profile.” In order to better understand why this topic has to be addressed at work, start by reading this article !

Quote : “All the women interviewed agree that the problem is not the children or the work; it is the system. The incorporation of women into the labor market has led wealthier parents to outsource care and those who cannot afford to do this to combine work and parenting in a distribution of roles in which women tend to lose out.”

MENOPAUSE

A year ago, Alan interviewed meabout the impact of menopause on women’s representation in the workplace. A year later, I am thrilled to see how many articles have been devoted to this subject in the meantime. Sifted just shared a piece with a striking number: “A UK poll recently found that 1 in 10 women quit their jobs because of the menopause.” The article goes beyond just number and  mentions  an actionable document entitled “A Guide to Managing Menopause at Work” with guidelines.

Quote : “Many workplaces fail to offer adequate support to menopausal people as they’re simply not aware of the symptoms — it’s essential that everyone on the team, especially managers, wises up.”

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION 

📊 I thought it would be helpful for some of you to read a well-written Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging report. HubSpot is globally spread and publishes data about its workforce. Its report is an example because it has lots of pedagogical content about vocabulary and contains whole  paragraphs on how to sustain an inclusive environment in a remote-friendly company. If you are working on such a report for your company,  feel free to get inspired by HubSpot!

Quote: “A note on our self-identification process Outside of of EEO-1 categories, as new HubSpotters join our team, they’re asked to provide a variety of onboarding information, including the following self-identification attributes: Trans woman, Trans man, Non-binary, Cisgender woman, Cisgender man, Gender not listed here, Prefer not to disclose.”

SOURCING

🤯 Noé Antona is a talented sourcer whom I have been following for several years. I remember quoting his work during my first #SOSUEU presentation. Back then, he was sourcing engineers on Hackerrank and would share his tricks. Noé is back with a well-argued article on the “10 common reasons why your sourcing team is not successful”. If you work with sourcers or are a sourcer / recruiter yourself, read this piece. You won’t regret it!

Quote: “One of the main risks of the sourcing function is to over-engineer everything. Just like recruiters stopped asking brain teasers during interviews, sourcers shouldn’t spend the majority of their time trying to find candidates on Airbnb or in database leaks.”

WEBINAIRE THE ALLYANCE 

👉🏿 Le 24 juin dernier, plus de 70 personnes étaient en ligne pour suivre le webinaire organisé par The Allyance pour combattre le racisme dans le recrutement. L’équipe a été émue de constater un vif intérêt de la part de personnes présentes!

Nous avons eu la chance de recevoir Cindy Liwenge, développeuse et formatrice de profils en reconversion, Léa Curiel, Consultante Senior chez France Immigration et Damien Hié-Coloby, Senior Talent Manager chez Alan. L’intégralité des chiffres clés et des ressources partagées sont en ligne et accessibles dans cet article.

Citation: “Si le refus d’embaucher une personne en raison d’un motif de discrimination est interdit par le Code du travail et le Code pénal, 56% des saisines reçues par le Défenseur des Droits concernent la discrimination à raison de l’origine dans le domaine de l’emploi.”