People want to be recruited based on their skill set, not just because they are a part of a minority group. So at The Bandish Group, LLC we emphasize skill set and experience first.

When recruiting for our clients we discuss the minorities who are already employees of our client, which attracts minorities to want to join the team as well; showing that our client is diversified. We have adopted behavioral-based interviewing to reduce the effects of beliefs, attitudes and stereotyping that contribute to subjective, sometimes biased, candidate evaluation.

We attend diversity conferences and career fairs. We collect business cards and obtain event attendee lists, then follow-up quickly. These are potential candidates now and in the future. A key source for us is utilizing internal company referrals. Good people know good people. We also seek external referrals: professional groups, professional associations and customers are all excellent sources for our diverse candidates. We also network with previous candidates we have previously recruited and have developed a relationship with. Establishing lasting relationships with former diverse candidates who were not selected for employment at the time but were good candidates, nevertheless.

We are continuously expanding the list of targeted diversity colleges and universities. The Bandish Group staff is educated and trained to participate in the diversity initiative. We are key in networking. Our database is our number one referral system.

We have imbedded a diversity message into our regular recruiting materials as being certified by WBENC. We ourselves are a diversity recruitment agency.

To assess the demographics of our candidates, we have a resume/candidate tracking system in place. This system can be searched by location and will indicate how many candidates we have in each searched location. In conducting a diversity search we open the demographic search to ALL locations, if relocation assistance is provided, to avoid demographic issues. Within the system we can also assess gender, and ethnicity if the candidate is willing to present that information.