PharmiMike

There seems to be an increasing amount of talk about diversity recruiting, and not just in pharma. By diversity recruiting I mean ensuring that you recruit a diverse range of candidates within your company. In reality this might mean that you broaden your recruitment net to include sites that, for example are used by minority groups based on race, colour, age, disability, religion. It may even amount to positive discrimination, as the BBC have stated:

“Under such a plan, if two job candidates met the required standards, the candidate whose ethnicity is under-represented in the force would be selected.” (BBC, 19th April 2007)

A few useful diversity recruitment resources:

• http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/resources/diversity.htm
• ttp://www.pharmadiversityjobboard.com/
• http://diversityjobs.com/
• http://www.diversity-jobs.com/
• http://diversityworking.com/career/Pharmaceuticals/?cchan=83

Some pharma companies are making progress in diversity recruiting by promoting themselves well

• Astellas on Blackcareers.com

What is immediately noticeable however, is the fact that all these diversity job boards are USA based – what is the UK, or indeed the European pharma industry doing about diversity recruitment?  - and what strategies are in place?

Are some recruiters pretending to be candidates just to get the inside information on a job or client?

We think they are!

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