Employer-led networking, when done right, can be a powerful tool to recruit women, according to researchers from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management.
While hiring managers often attribute the challenge of achieving gender diversity to a perceived lack of female candidates, this perspective overlooks a critical fact: the potential alienation of female candidates during the job search process, say PhD student Janani Ramesh and associate professor Elena Obukhova.
It’s at that first stage of recruitment where this lack of belonging sets in, says Ramesh, and it follows women throughout their careers.
