Student AffairsQueen’s University is committed to recruiting processes that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. These guidelines and resources offer best practices to consider when recruiting at Queen’s, expanding Experiential Learning opportunities, and helping to foster meaningful engagement with a variety of students while offering an inclusive recruiting process.
Queen’s Principles for Campus Recruiting
- To ensure all organizations recruiting students and graduates through our career offices use recruiting practices that are open, accessible and inclusive with respect to many aspects of diversity including ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, ability and socioeconomic status.
- To provide supports for our employers about best practices for recruitment with an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens, specific to student and new graduate populations, from engaging with students and posting jobs to interviews.
- To communicate our policies and procedures when engaging with students (on-campus or virtually) and coordinating processes for receiving and responding to disclosures of inappropriate incidents involving discrimination, harassment or sexual violence with recruiters.
We have consulted across faculties, the human rights and equity office, and student services units to develop the following recommendations for how to review your practices to best support students from equity-deserving backgrounds and to contribute to your goals for improving equity and inclusion in your organization.
Resources for your student and graduate recruitment at Queen’s
- Hiring & Engaging Diverse Student Talent: Employer Toolkit
- This employer toolkit focuses on the hiring, onboarding, and retention and engagement of students and recent graduates through the lens of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility within the Western world of work.
- These modules were developed by University of Toronto Career Exploration & Education in consultation with University of Toronto Scarborough Career Centre, University of Toronto Mississauga Career Centre, York University, Lakehead University, Wilfrid Laurier University, McMaster University, OCAD University, Queen’s University, and Toronto Metropolitan University.
- EDII Best Practices through the Recruitment Cycle
- This document shares a range of suggested practices for organizations to consider in their recruitment activities and overall organizational culture.
- Experiential Learning: Investing in Student Skills and Experience Development
- Learn about using experiential learning as a way to support the career development of students from equity-deserving communities.