What does it mean for a company to have a diversity recruitment strategy?
Metzler: For an organization to have a diversity recruitment strategy means a couple of things. It means the organization has decided from a strategic standpoint that diversity is going to help drive the business. As a result the organization is going to try and find as broad a range of potential employees as possible. Depending on the organization’s definition that may be anything from looking at diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, those kind of protected categories, but then also looking at diversity from the standpoint of people who are right brainers versus left brainers, people who think more linearly, people who are more literal, people who are creative. So it all depends on what the organizations focus or definition is. Basically what it means is the organization has decided it can’t do what it needs to do because it has not been looking at as wide a range of students or potential employees as it needs to be doing. Why has there been an increase
