Fair From the Start: DEI, Disability & the Application Experience
Before a candidate ever meets you, your website has already made an impression.
Your careers site and application process are the front door to your organisation. For many candidates - people with disability, neurodivergent applicants, First Nations jobseekers, and others from marginalised groups - that door can be harder to open than you realise. Sometimes it's closed before they even knock.
This free, facilitated community discussion brings together talent acquisition and HR professionals to take an honest look at the candidate experience from the outside in. Not in theory, in practice. During the session, you'll look at your own careers site and application process in real time and ask: what is this experience actually like for someone who doesn't move, see, process, or communicate the way our forms assume they do?
What we'll cover:
Why DEI data collection and application accessibility are two sides of the same coin
What good practice looks like when asking candidates for diversity information and what erodes trust
Disability, neurodiversity, and First Nations applicants: where the friction points are and how to address them
The ATS accountability gap and the questions worth asking your vendor
What happens after you collect DEI data, and why that matters as much as how you ask
You'll leave with:
A clearer picture of where your own process may be excluding people before they apply
Practical, low-cost actions you can take in the next four weeks
A commitment to share back with the community because accountability is how change actually happens
Come prepared: Have your careers site handy and be ready to apply for one of your own roles during the session. You might be surprised by what you find.
Hosted by The Circle Back Initiative and the Humaneer community. Open to all talent acquisition and HR professionals - no prior knowledge required, just a genuine interest in making recruitment fairer.