📰 Carolyn Levy on how Canadian IT leaders can build and embrace diversity and inclusion

There are no easy solutions when it comes to creating diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace. Creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace comes with many challenges – and requires a nuanced approach that might not play well with existing blunt and outdated mechanisms.

To be successful in this space, companies are often faced with ensuring entire workforces comply with corporate directives while developing and nurturing cultures of inclusion, belonging, and respect.

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While there are many pitfalls when it comes to hiring a diverse workforce, it can be done if you take a structured approach, says Carolyn Levy, group president of staffing and recruitment agency Randstad Technologies.

“A challenge that we’ve had is just making sure that our journey has D&I really embedded into our organization from all aspects, [including] what we do with recruitment,” says Levy, who also acts as chief diversity officer for Randstad Canada.

“We’re able to reach different marginalized communities and work to represent the community that we serve.”