4 min read
Why an inclusive culture is key to hiring and retaining great teams
Diverse recruitment is good for everyone. So how do you create an inclusive culture and share it with great candidates...
Easy, quick-to-implement ideas for job descriptions, questions and interview tasks that will widen your talent pool.
Templates and resources to help you design inclusive criteria and objective selection processes.
Lessons we've learned from rethinking recruitment at Spektrix.
Rethinking Recruitment is a practical resource for anyone who recruits for roles using customer relationship management (CRM) tools in the cultural sector, usually in marketing, fundraising, ticketing and sales roles. Easy, quick-to-implement ideas will help you rethink job descriptions, questions and interview tasks to make them inclusive and inviting to a wider pool of candidates.
"What are the core qualities needed to be a great cultural sector marketer, fundraiser or sales team member? Can changing the way we look at job requirements and recruitment practices help us find people with these qualities and give us a better chance of increasing the diversity of our teams?"
“To cultivate greater diversity and equity, we need to constantly interrogate our own assumed ‘requirements’ that are limiting or downright exclusionary. By investing in onboarding new hires to our specific platforms and business models, we invite their expertise and create belonging. And that’s the point.”
"Flexibility is at the absolute heart of inclusivity. The more choices you give your team, the more you empower people to find solutions that are accessible for them. The key is not to assume what someone needs but to give them the freedom to meet their individual access requirements."
"The words you use, the places you advertise, the skills and experience you choose to prioritise, the way you talk about your benefits and your organisational culture, they all say something about who you are. And if we aren't prepared to change our thinking, we will never see the change that we so desperately need to see."
Rethinking Recruitment explores ideas for widening recruitment into customer relationship management related roles in marketing, fundraising, ticketing and sales. We make no claims to have finished our journey towards a fully inclusive recruitment process, but we hope and believe that the sector can share in the lessons we’ve learned so far. We’d love to hear about any additional ideas, improvements or resources you can share.
Spektrix is a certified B Corporation, committed to growing the impact of
the cultural sector, supporting connections with audiences, visitors and communities.
Aug 7, 2023 by Bryony Bell
Diverse recruitment is good for everyone. So how do you create an inclusive culture and share it with great candidates...
May 17, 2023 by Michael Nabarro
Data on the diversity of our team, management and board in 2023, and our work to build a more inclusive workplace over...
Mar 28, 2023 by Lexi Messenger
Ahead of this autumns's Reframe: Women in Tech conference in London, Spektrix engineers reflect on the benefits of a...