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Embracing Neurodivergence in the Workplace
Embracing neurodiverse perspectives in the workplace creates an inclusive culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and is able to add value. Fostering an inclusive workplace helps you tap into the valuable talent available to you. In this article we explore the challenges for neurodiverse workers and offer practical tips for employers to nurture neurodiverse talent.
Unconscious Bias and How to Reduce it in Your Recruiting
Unconscious bias has a significant impact on the hiring process, leading to unfair outcomes and perpetuating inequalities, in turn creating a certain environment that forms the basis of a culture of an organisation. In this article, we explore discrimination and unconscious bias in the hiring process and explain how hiring managers can eradicate bias in their recruiting.
Changing Jobs – The Great Resignation
The Great Resignation – the phenomenon that began in early 2021 – has seen higher-than-expected numbers of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs across the world. There has been great debate in the media in recent months over whether the trend is indeed over, or remains on going. We explore the reasons behind this and our insight on the current job market.
Work-Life Balance as a Parent: How to Have a Successful Summer
We explore the impact of the Flexible Working Bill, and provide actionable tips to help you establish a routine, set boundaries and manage your mental health this summer.
How to Create Diverse Shortlists
We explain how hiring managers can ensure they have a diverse hiring strategy and inclusivity within their organisation by optimising their shortlists. We hear from CMA’s own Inclusion and Diversity working group who provide expert advice for creating diverse shortlists and making big steps in your own organisation’s diversity programme.
How to Succeed at an Assessment Day
An assessment day – or assessment centre – is commonly used in recruitment and is usually the final stage of the recruitment process and is also often part of graduate recruitment schemes in particular. In this helpful article, CMA’s HR Business Partner Hayley Murphy offers her expert advice to help de-mystify assessment days and ensure you are fully-prepared and set up to succeed on the day.