Why Most Diversity Recruitment Firms Stop at Sourcing
Ask most companies what their diversity hiring strategy looks like, and the answer usually centers on one thing: widening the candidate pool. Post the role on more platforms, partner with more diverse professional networks, track more demographic data at the top of the funnel. It's a reasonable starting point and it's also where most diversity recruitment firms stop, treating sourcing breadth as the whole solution rather than the first step. The Bias That Survives a Diverse Pipeline Here's the uncomfortable reality: a company can source an impressively diverse pool of candidates and still end up with a homogenous shortlist, because the bias was never in who applied it was in how the applications got screened. A resume-screening process built around "culture fit," pattern-matching to existing employees, or unstructured interview questions can quietly filter out exactly the candidates a broader sourcing strategy worked hard to attract. Widening the top of the fu...