Do you ever think of recruitment as more than just filling positions? How about considering it as an opportunity to bring together a wealth of talents with the ability to make your business successful?
It’s this kind of approach to recruitment that has positioned Solutions Driven as a leader in diverse recruitment. And we’ve dedicated this blog to sharing the details of our unique 6S and 6F frameworks that ensure we evaluate every candidate using a wide range of perspectives and experiences. They’re reshaping the way we hire.
Diversity isn’t just a tick box exercise – it’s the foundation of the best performing teams, those that lead the way when it comes to being innovative and successful. When a workforce is diverse, you benefit from a valuable mixing pot of viewpoints and ideas. The result is unparalleled creativity and problem-solving, not to mention new levels of productivity and retention.
A broad range of talent is the key to success. So, here, learn about our unique methodologies that are making Solutions Driven a leader in inclusive recruitment, plus how you can replicate them in your own strategy to transform your culture and performance too.
The Challenge of Achieving Diversity in Hiring
Creating a truly diverse workplace isn’t simple. If it were, everyone would have nailed diversity years ago.
The reality is that many of us are still hitting hurdles when addressing diversity and inclusion. There are several common stumbling blocks, one of those being the limited talent pool. How can you become more diverse if there simply aren’t the candidates available? Fishing in the same old pond can severely limit the diversity of your applicants.
Then there’s unconscious bias – another tricky challenge – that creeps into the hiring process without us even knowing it. And before long we’ve unintentionally created a team of carbon-copies.
Resources, or rather a lack of them, can be another problem. Without the adequate tools and strategies in place to reach diverse candidates, you’re going to struggle to make the progress you’d like.
Traditional hiring methods can trip you up, too. If you’re not keeping up with the times and updating the way you approach recruitment, you risk being left behind. Let’s face it, years ago, diversity wasn’t a priority for businesses. People didn’t have access to the research and tools we have today. And old-fashioned methods that worked once, are now likely to inadvertently overlook diverse talent. Don’t miss out on great talent by clinging to outdated ways of working.
Introduction to Solutions Driven’s Hiring Frameworks
At Solutions Driven, we’ve used our years of industry experience to create unique frameworks, designed specifically to tackle diverse hiring challenges. Our 6S and 6F frameworks help us to ensure that both organisations and candidates find the perfect match. Here’s a little about both of these approaches:
The 6S Framework: Guaranteeing the Right Hire
Our 6S process has been developed to ensure that the right hire is made the first time.
Here’s a simple breakdown of how 6S would work for you:
- Scoping: We start with a detailed discussion with key stakeholders to understand your company culture. This helps us design a process and Candidate Value Proposition (CVP) tailored to your project.
- Scorecarding: We create a Candidate Fit Scorecard to identify the essential skills and attributes you need. This scorecard guides our screening and interviewing, helping us rank candidates effectively.
- Sourcing: Using hiring intelligence, we discover where top talent resides. Techniques like x-ray web searching and global networking ensure we tap into a broad pool of candidates.
- Selecting: Candidates undergo technical, competency, and psychometric assessments. We then present you with 4-6 top candidates who align with the scorecard.
- Securing: Next, we present your company’s value proposition to candidates, ensuring their career goals align with your organisation’s needs.
- Satisfying: Success measures are agreed upon at the outset and reviewed throughout the process, with regular check-ins with clients and candidates.
The 6F Framework: Ensuring the Right Fit
Our 6F methodology focuses on finding candidates who aren’t just qualified, but are also the perfect fit:
In short, this is how it works:
- Fit: We ensure candidates feel at home in your company culture, allowing them to thrive.
- Freedom: Understanding candidates’ future goals ensures they’re aligned with your business vision.
- Family: We value work-life balance, recognising that family priorities are crucial.
- Fulfilment: It’s important that we fully understand what drives candidates both professionally and personally.
- Fortune: We ensure we align the candidate’s goals with the opportunity to guarantee mutual success.
- Future: We focus on roles that support candidates’ long-term career aspirations.
A Data-Driven Approach
Data and hiring intelligence form the foundation of our frameworks, because we know data’s powerful and is crucial in helping us to make informed and objective decisions. By taking a data-driven approach, we’re also eliminating bias and enhancing diversity – every hiring decision is based on fact, rather than gut feeling or individual opinions. Our 6S and 6F solutions have seen us not just meet our clients’ expectations of diverse and inclusive hiring, but actually exceed them.
How Solutions Driven’s Frameworks Promote Diversity
For companies to be diverse, it must become more than a goal. It needs to be ingrained into every activity…hiring included. Both 6S and 6F have been designed to remove the barriers that biases can create. We’re proud of the fact we’re creating a level playing field for candidates that traditional hiring methods have not.
Because the 6S framework is so structured, it ensures every candidate is evaluated fairly and on clear, predefined criteria. Every step is meticulously planned to focus on the information that really matters when you’re wanting to build a successful business: candidate’s skills, experience, and cultural fit. Everything else takes a back seat, so there’s no room for personal biases to influence decisions.
Similarly, with 6F, we do more than just assess qualifications. We delve into understanding a candidate’s personal motivations and future goals – the bits that prove their values are aligned with yours. And by concentrating on things like culture fit and future goals, we can be sure that candidates are being accurately assessed on their potential to thrive and contribute uniquely to your team.
Data adds to this and by using real-time analytics, we can better assess candidates and remove any preconceived ideas or stereotypes.
Diverse hiring can be complex. But as we’ve discussed, if you can overcome the challenges, the rewards of a diverse workforce are well worth it.
Solutions Driven’s innovative frameworks can help by offering tried and tested solutions to issues like unconscious bias and limited talent pools. With 6S and 6F, we’re able to ensure that every candidate’s evaluated fairly, focusing solely on their skills, fit, and potential – and because they’re both data-led, we’re removing bias too.
Are you ready to improve diversity and inclusion in your organisation? Whether you’re at the start of your D&I journey or are looking to change up the way you do things, get in touch with Solutions Driven to talk more about how our innovative frameworks and approaches to recruitment can help you create a more inclusive future.
