As we’ve reported in this series, many companies remain committed to the values of DEI — but are shifting their strategies for a new era.
Skills-based hiring is one way companies are working to identify diverse candidates organically.
With artificial intelligence, talent leaders can accelerate the hiring process and uncover strong candidates within their companies that they might have missed before.
DEI programs have many aspects, including employer branding and attracting a diverse talent pool, screening and hiring, and compensation.
Indeed once had a DEI team that worked parallel to the HR function. But when the previous HR leader left the company, they decided to reorganize and embed the DEI discipline across the business, elevating the previous head of DEI to chief people officer.
By enlisting AI tools to analyze online sources, university partnerships, and other talent alliances and platforms the company is using, Adya said it should be able to optimize its approach around specific goals.
AI can do that in a way that human knowledge management and analysis is not going to be able to do.
Deri said that if a large language model can be trained on the outcomes, such as attracting new customers, creating new products, and building community trust, “that might be something that uses technology to help the storytelling about DEI. We really need to change the entire story now.”