RECOMMENDATION #2

Prioritize employee recruitment efforts focused on minority candidates through an intentional program of advertising, site visits, use of professional consultants, and word-of-mouth.

• The Recruiting and Onboarding Specialist will work with hiring managers to best determine places to advertise job openings including historically black colleges and universities.
• The Human Resources staff will increase their attendance at job fairs and increase recruitment efforts at local community events, at historically black colleges and universities, and through programs at Lewisville ISD.
• The City will consider hiring a consultant to assist with minority recruitment as funding allows.

Status: Ongoing

Completed Actions

• Created Diversity and Inclusion interview questions. Those interview questions are now required for all selection processes.
• Diverse representation in job marketing materials.

Planned Actions

• Working with universities through Handshake to post job openings.
• Continuing to utilize intake sessions with hiring managers for recruitment strategy.
• Continue sending all job postings sent to NAACP and LULAC.