Elena Richards, talent management leader, Office of Diversity, PricewaterhouseCoopers, presents at DiversityInc’s Innovation Fest! how her firm improves hiring, engagement and promotion of Blacks by providing new hires a year-long leadership/talent-development program as part of its on-boarding efforts. The company is No. 1 in The 2012 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Watch the video below to learn about this innovative program.

The full Innovation Fest! presentations with PowerPoint slides are available on DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

Watch the other Innovation Fest! videos: How 9 Companies Capitalize on Innovation: Resource Groups, Engagement & Talent Development.

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Recruitment efforts only are successful if they are sustainable, executives from Ernst & Young and Target (Nos. 6 and 30, respectively, in the 2012 DiversityInc Top 50) say during our web seminar on recruitment and hiring gaps.

This 90-minute presentation features Barbara Frankel, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, DiversityInc; Ken Bouyer, Americas Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting, Ernst & Young; and Damu McCoy, Director of Talent Acquisition, Target.

Bouyer and McCoy both provide best practices for recruitment and on-boarding and explain why a multifaceted approach to recruitment is the most successful for those looking to build and maximize the potential of a diverse workforce. Their presentations include:

• How Ernst & Young and Target attract Black, Latino and Asian top performers.

• How to leverage talent development initiatives to attract new hires.
• How a global workforce can provide enhanced work opportunities, and ultimately longer tenure, for new hires.
• How to determine which organizations will offer strategic recruitment relationships.
• What types of internships and orientation programs are most effective.

“It all goes back to understanding the recruitment data and being able to embed diversity and inclusion in everything that you do,” Bouyer says.

 >> Watch Diversity Web Seminar: Recruitment/Hiring Gaps on DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

For more on recruitment, read How to Get 150 Top-Performing Black and Latino Candidates Now and Rutgers Future Scholars Enhances Talent Pipelines With Corporate-Student Outreach.

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Data from The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity shows that those with the best retention rates keep a heavy focus on talent development and promotion. But how can you best leverage your current resources to attract, retain and promote the best talent from all groups?

Best Practices: Talent Development reveals the common top five strategies, which include the effective use of employee-resource groups, cross-cultural mentoring and compensation reviews.

Among the best practices, readers will learn:

• Why resource groups help employees “fit in” and why your CEO should actively be meeting with these groups
• Which employees need a formal on-boarding program
• How mentoring with a cross-cultural component can affect an individual’s success and performance
• How compensation factors into engagement and overall satisfaction
• Why you should measure your success with definitive metrics

For more best practices on talent development and retention, read Mentoring Roundtable: How Mentoring Improves Retention, Engagement & Promotions.

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