Actions and example activities
Organisations will implement actions in ways that suit their own context. Example activities provide guidance.
Example activities
- Organisations regularly review recruitment policies, processes, and practices to ensure recruitment is inclusive and accessible for more targeted talent acquisition.
- Organisations increase the use of Special Measures under the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 2010. They set targets to increase the use of special measures in internal EOIs and external advertisements.
- Organisations use targeted advertising where needed. This includes working with specific community organisations or communication channels. It also includes promoting pathways from education to employment.
2.2 Organisations actively monitor workforce composition (who is in the workforce) and establish baselines (starting points for measurement) and targets.
Example activities
- Organisations work with the VPSC to improve how demographic data is collected, shared, and used. This includes addressing issues that discourage employees from sharing and updating their personal diversity information in the relevant system.
- Organisations establish baselines and set appropriate employment targets to increase diversity and inclusion across all areas of the workforce.
- Organisations ensure workforce planning considers diversity. They monitor the contract types held by diverse employees to improve access to opportunities for ongoing roles.
2.3 Organisations and hiring managers have the capability to recognise diverse and lived experience and mitigate unconscious bias.
Example activities
- Hiring managers recognise that merit includes transferable skills and lived experience of diverse applicants.
- Organisations ensure the use of diverse interview panels during hiring processes is reflected in policy and practice.
- Organisations equip hiring managers to apply key resources.
These include:
- Recruit Smarter Best Practice Guidelines for Inclusive Recruitment
- Guidance on Special Measures under the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 2010.
- Organisations review and document the reasons for appointing non-diverse candidates when special measures are used.