Hiring for diversity

A workplace with employees from different backgrounds, perspectives, opinions and experiences can deliver a range of positive outcomes to business.

As Australians, we take pride in our multiculturalism, and we can demonstrate this by fostering diversity in the workplace.

A workplace rich in diversity, is one that provides a safe and inclusive environment for employees from different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, opinions and experiences.

From retention to employee wellbeing to creative thinking, workplace diversity offers a range of benefits to business, and is key to not only healthy internal relationships, but also those with customers and stakeholders.

Workplace diversity encourages:

• Improved customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Different perspectives that help to solve complex business problems.
• Stronger employee retention, performance and wellbeing.
• The opportunity to reach a wider customer base, improving sales and outcomes in today’s competitive marketplace.
• Larger businesses to pursue government contracts, as demonstrated employee diversity is increasingly a criteria in tenders and proposal submissions.

Employment Plus has access to a wide variety of job seekers* from all walks of life, that can contribute to the diversity in your workplace, and help your business meet its diversity targets. Our job ready candidates include (nationwide):

• 20% mature age job seekers.
• 11% Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander job seekers.
• 11% Homeless.
• 14% young job seekers.
• 15% culturally and linguistically diverse job seekers.
• 15% Ex-Offenders