Hiring and retaining for diversity

Diverse teams are good for your business, but how do you go about hiring a more diverse team, and more importantly, how do you retain them?

Sarah Wells worked at the Financial Times for over a decade. Joining them as a Senior Developer, she was one of the only women in engineering.

By the time she left at the end of last year, across permanent engineers in London the FT had around 35% women and non-binary, evenly spread at all levels and in the Tech Leadership Group, it was men who were in the minority.

Hear about the things the FT did that made a difference to impact diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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1. @sarahjwells Hiring and retaining a diverse engineering team Sarah Wells @sarahjwells
2. @sarahjwells Why aim for a diverse team? http://csi.nuff.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ Are-employers-in-Britain-discriminating-against-ethnic-minorities_final.pdf
3. @sarahjwells https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1509515258276286472
4. @sarahjwells https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1509515258276286472
5. @sarahjwells Why aim for a diverse team? https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter
6. @sarahjwells Why aim for a diverse team? They focus more on facts They process those facts more carefully They are more innovative https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter
7. @sarahjwells https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/the-diversity-redemption-9a5e200c34b3
8. @sarahjwells https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/the-diversity-redemption-9a5e200c34b3
9. @sarahjwells Hiring Retaining
10. @sarahjwells Hiring Retaining
11. @sarahjwells Showcase an inclusive culture HIRING
12. @sarahjwells https://aboutus.ft.com/company/diversity-inclusion
13. @sarahjwells https://medium.com/ft-product-technology
14. @sarahjwells
15. @sarahjwells Use your networks HIRING
16. @sarahjwells Bad job specs can filter out good people https://labs.ft.com/2014/08/not-everything-is-awesome/ HIRING
17. @sarahjwells Make sure no one is interviewed exclusively by straight white men HIRING
18. @sarahjwells Expect a diverse shortlist HIRING
19. @sarahjwells https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/making-recruitment- fair-for-people-of-colour-66a3ad907a7d
20. @sarahjwells Don’t select based on how much free time someone has HIRING
21. @sarahjwells Support non-standard routes into coding HIRING
22. @sarahjwells http://makers.tech/ https://codeyourfuture.io/
23. @sarahjwells Hiring Retaining
24. @sarahjwells https://wpassets.ncwit.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/13193304/ ncwit_women-in-it_2016-full-report_final-web06012016.pdf
25. @sarahjwells Talk about what you do to support diversity and inclusion RETAINING
26. @sarahjwells https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/14/i-set-up-a-twitter-bot-to-expose -companies-pay-gaps-16272035/
27. @sarahjwells RETAINING This needs to include white men in leadership positions
28. @sarahjwells Give opportunities to underrepresented people RETAINING
29. @sarahjwells Tanya Reilly: https://noidea.dog/glue
30. @sarahjwells Data is crucial RETAINING
31. @sarahjwells Use the data to make things fairer RETAINING
32. @sarahjwells Metrics show what matters RETAINING
33. @sarahjwells Offer training, and expect your leaders to attend RETAINING
34. @sarahjwells Stand up for people https://larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/ RETAINING
35. @sarahjwells Set up employee networks RETAINING
36. @sarahjwells https://aboutus.ft.com/company/employee-networks
37. @sarahjwells https://aboutus.ft.com/company/employee-networks
38. @sarahjwells https://aboutus.ft.com/company/employee-networks
39. @sarahjwells Be prepared for difficult conversations RETAINING
40. @sarahjwells https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/hiring-a-diverse-team
41. @sarahjwells https://aboutus.ft.com/careers
42. @sarahjwells Questions?