Cultivating A Diverse And Inclusive Workforce? These Innovative Practices — DivHERsity Hiring From Top Companies Can Help

AccelHERate 2021 — where corporate bigwigs joined hands to discuss innovative practices on DivHERsity Hiring that will enable thousands of women to join the workforce.

Diversity hiring can be that smart move that your organisation needs to make in order to excel in your business. Companies including Accenture, ANZ, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Willis Towers Watson, and others are adopting different diversity strategies to encourage more women participation at the workplace. 

Do you know, the average participation of women in the workforce across industries is just 34%? This needs to be fixed.

Learn about the most innovative practices in DivHERsity Hiring from representatives of top companies to achieve their gender diversity goals while hiring, such as women-specific recruitment programs and actively running women-specific hiring drives.

Industry experts at the table: 

• Avantika Nigam, Director HR, PepsiCo
• Sandhya Kini, Director - HR, Willis Towers Watson
• Prabhjit Didyala, Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
• Shilpika Saxena, Executive Director, HR, Morgan Stanley Advantage Services
• Kanitha K K, Head T&C, Bengaluru Service, TSO and Group Centre, ANZ Support Services India Pvt. Ltd
• Harsha Shekar, Team Lead, TSO and Group Centre, ANZ Support Services India Pvt. Ltd

Get an insight into how these companies are enabling gender parity through hiring. 

“Biggest challenge in hiring women for leadership roles is that there are very few of them.”- Avantika Nigam, PepsiCo.

Willis Towers Watson Mumbai sets a great example of what equal gender participation at work looks like as they have a 1:1 gender ratio in their organisation. Sandhya Kini also talks about women returnee programs to encourage more women to restart their careers.

Prabhjit Didyala says that Accenture is confident about achieving a 50-50 gender ratio goal at their organisation.

Shilpika Saxena agrees that there has been a talent gap and upskilling can help in diminishing this gap.

Kanitha KK points out that 47% of hires in ANZ were women for FY 2020.

Watch the workshop here http://bit.ly/30Vzo9e

Workplace diversity has become a top priority for organisations. And we’re making sure that we do our best in enabling women to accelerate their careers by connecting them to jobs, community, mentoring, reskilling, and networking opportunities.

Is your company ready to AccelHERate female participation in the Indian workforce? Sign up on JobsForHer here or write to simran@jobsforher.com to learn how we can help your company gain exponentially from this talent pool of women returning to work from career breaks.