Sessions
Concurrent Session
Apprenticeship Programs: The Key to Recruiting & Hiring Diverse Talent
Summit 8-9
In-Person
Tuesday 04/12/2022 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Competencies: Business (Behavioral), Interpersonal (Behavioral), Leadership (Behavioral)
Workplace Application:
Attendees will learn about how apprenticeship can help address their company’s talent needs and build a diverse, skilled workforce; the role they can play in launching inclusive programs at their organizations.
How can HR professionals help recruit and hire diverse talent? When designed to be inclusive, an apprenticeship program can build a pipeline of skilled talent and support companies in achieving their diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility goals. Designing apprenticeship programs that are inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities can expand opportunities to recruit and hire diverse candidates, more broadly, including people of all races, veterans, women, returning citizens, and more. HR professionals can play a vital role in building apprenticeship programs that help achieve these outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how inclusive apprenticeship programs can support companies’ recruitment and hiring efforts, particularly of individuals from underrepresented and underserved communities, and how they can help address talent needs and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility goals.
- Learn how inclusive apprenticeship programs can benefit their companies ROI and how to advocate for the development of inclusive apprenticeship programs in their companies.
- Get the resources they need to begin the process of establishing inclusive apprenticeship programs and building partnerships to ensure success.
