How can organizations equip themselves to recruit, retain, and support immigrant workers in a new culture?
Project Description
Immigrant workers represent a key priority population for the United States labor market: Between now and 2035, growth in the labor force will be driven entirely by these newcomers. As organizations equip themselves to recruit, retain, and support these immigrant workers in a new culture, they need to ensure that their employees involved with hiring know how to properly interview multicultural candidates. However, much of the existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) trainings that help train human resources professionals and hiring managers in sub-skills such as listening with empathy or using respectful language focus on the behaviors and practices that should be adopted, but not on how to actually adapt one’s own behavior through ample opportunity to practice and hone these new skills in authentic contexts similar to those in which individuals will eventually leverage them (Molinsky, 2015). Thus, in this project, we plan to develop a structured training to equip hiring managers and HR professionals with the appropriate skills to conduct interviews with job seekers from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds. Currently, the researchers are seeking funding to carry out this work into its next stage and to build out the curriculum.