This might be a dumb question but what specifically do D&I people at agencies do daily? Is it like an HR-style job?

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In most cases they are there to make sure agencies don’t get sued.

But really good DI departments are more proactive and can push for better hiring/compensation practices, and to establish a process for formal complaints etc.

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Partner with career fairs and mentorship groups. Review agency demographic data. Internal bias training and cultural events.

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Nothing, judging by the total lack of impact they’ve had since their inception years ago.

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If agencies were serious about inclusion, they have to start at the first steps in the hiring process: recruiting and HR. Hire DIVERSE recruiters and HR people. Crazy idea, huh.

Right now, recruiters are 80% one age, one gender, one race, one socio-economic background. Agencies don’t even have the courage to fix their recruiting and HR departments, what makes you think they’d have the courage to fix all the other departments?

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All of the HR people at my previous agency were all white women who went to either Penn State or Syracuse.

To me a D&I dept is worthless if every recruiter is white. No matter how progressive folks claim to be, we are drawn to people who are similar to us.

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