Recruiting

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Gender Differences in Job Experiences
International Opportunities
Mentors
Sponsor
Networks
Task Assigned
Performance Appraisal
Recruiting
Hiring
Promotion
Committee Experience
Awards
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Gender Differences in Job Experiences Precision
Bicycles

• Allocation of stretch assignments
• Assignments requiring relocation
• International assignments
• Mentors, Networks
• Supervision opportunities
• Characteristics used to describe performance
• Educational qualifications
• Honors/Awards received

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How to shatter glass ceilings?

• Give women highly visible work assignments in
  operational areas
• Ensure training adequate support to prevent
  failure which could be used as excuse for not
  engaging in such efforts.
• Match skills to the assignment.

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How to shatter glass ceilings?

• Conduct at least one women-friendly event for
  networking with childcare facilities
• Engineer a mentoring program
• Implement succession planning
• Do not assume that women will not accept
  relocation or international assignments

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How to shatter glass ceilings?

• Start recruiting women at lower level jobs
  ensure progression through the ranks so that
  they are successful
• Manage peoples expectations organizational
  change effort
• Remind people of the learning curve and that such
  efforts will take time
• Make performance rewards contingent on diversity
  competency

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How to shatter glass ceilings?

• Include criteria into job description that are
  inclusive and not discriminatory to certain
  groups
• e.g., include collaborative skills in the job
  description that are needed for the job and
  ensure that job descriptions are not
  gender-biased
• Ensure that harassment and discrimination will
  not be tolerated in the organization that
  people are punished for such acts
• Ensure that internal job postings positions are
  known to all
• do not use the grapevine / word of mouth for
  recruiting