Would you like to make your organisation more attractive and appealing to international professionals? And are you considering how you can prepare your team appropriately so that diversity becomes a natural part of the work culture?
Make your team more diverse and think open-minded when recruiting staff - there is a lot to gain!
In the field of international (development) cooperation, humanitarian aid and sustainability, many positions are still predominantly filled by German native speakers. Although people with an international background are very welcome, unconscious preconceptions often stand in the way of recruitment. There are also numerous structural obstacles, such as legal barriers to residence or unrecognised qualifications. German employers are therefore often reluctant to take the step of hiring.
However, hiring people with a history of flight or migration means a real gain in experience, diversity and perspectives: International skilled workers are multilingual, they bring expertise, international study experience and diverse professional experience - including from their countries of origin. And they have also mastered bureaucratic processes and bring enormous commitment and stamina with them.
In the Spinnen-Netz network, we offer you a pool of freelancers. Here you will find numerous competent and experienced trainers and consultants, organisational developers and process facilitators who can offer you and your team workshops, consultations or process support for diversity-oriented recruitment or intercultural sensitisation
Offer 1: Training for HR managers and executives
(Digital) workshops and/or customised in-house training on issues relating to
a) diversity-sensitive international recruitment and
b) diversity-orientated onboarding and
c) preparing and supporting the entire team with the aim of sustainable integration of specialised staff. Topics: legal framework, language, culture, organisation
Offer 2: Individual counselling for HR staff and management
a) Formulation of the job advertisement
b) Placement of the job advert and selection of channels
c) Screening the application to avoid unconscious bias and selection
d) Onboarding
Offer 3: Organisational development/process support of an employing organisation on the way to a substantial opening for international professionals with exploration of changing measures in the areas of recruitment, onboarding and team building.
Please have a look to this list of experts and find your appropriate appropriate expert of diversity. You can contact each Freelance directly.
The Spinnen-Netz network brings together people from 25 different nations with a wide variety of language skills: in addition to English and French, we also offer Arabic, Farsi, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Wolof and much more. And we are working on further increasing diversity!
The topic of diversity is multidimensional and intersectional. In our counselling services, we want to focus in particular on the dimension of international origin without losing sight of the diversity dimensions of social origin, gender, age, religion or physical/psychological impairment.
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As a professional network in the non-profit sector, we act as an interface to other advisory organisations, so here is a list of some helpful advice centres for international recruitment and access to work.
Links for Employers who look for personal from abroad:
▪IQ-Network https://www.migranet.org/index.php/angebote/institutionen
Links for international jobseekers:
https://www.migranet.org/index.php/angebote/ratsuchende in ten different languages.
▪Information portal for foreign professional qualifications: https://www.bq-portal.de/en
▪Jobportal https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/de/arbeiten-in-deutschland/jobboerse