Diversity Disconnect Podcast
From Free Rein Associates and Life Strategies comes the Diversity Disconnect Podcast. Tasked with exploring the helping and hindering factors in job acquisition and employment maintenance for underrepresented groups, the research team spent six months speaking with residents in the rural communities of Agassiz, Hope, Merritt, Ashcroft, and Princeton, British Columbia. This limited series explores the findings of the Diversity Disconnect research and examines the 20 factors that influence employment success for Indigenous Peoples and persons with disabling conditions. Launching January 8, 2025, subscribe to the Diversity Disconnect Podcast so you don’t miss a moment. Funded by the Government of Canada.
Episodes
From Free Rein Associates and Life Strategies comes the Diversity Disconnect Podcast. Tasked with exploring the helping and hindering factors in job acquisition and employment maintenance for underrepresented groups, the research team spent six months engaging with five rural B.C. communities. They sought to hear stories of employment success, challenges, and ideas for change from job seekers, employees, employers, and support work...
After hearing from the diverse residents of Agassiz, Hope, Princeton, Merritt, and Ashcroft, the Diversity Disconnect research team identified 20 factors that influence employment success. Whether you’re a job seeker or employee from an underrepresented group, an employer small or large, or a member of a small, rural community, it’s important to understand how these factors impact your life and the lives of those around you. Empowe...
What does it take to find success? Whether you’re a job seeker, employee, employer, or part of a community group, it often comes down to the unique combination of skills available to meet your goals.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- About the essential skills everyone benefit from developing – including the Skills for Success
- The value collaboration brings to a community
- How interpersonal skills impact employment success
Inclusive, equitable diversity in the workplace requires accepting that you’ll experience moments of discomfort. Growth and discomfort often walk hand in hand.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- About some of the challenges you need to prepare for in building an inclusive workplace
- How gaining awareness of barriers faced by marginalized groups will help you be a better manager and employer
- Why all employers need to keep a trauma-i...
The Transportation Paradox: Disconnect Between Employer Expectation and Rural Realities - Episode 04
For this week’s episode, the team shares the most shocking disconnect between rural employers and the people they hire. We also dive into the importance of workplace environments, the role our financial realities play in our employment success, and the unique challenges faced by rural communities specifically.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How employers can make a difference in employment success by helping to solve one probl...
The bonds that tie your community together can have a major influence in your success. Knowing who your neighbours are, authentically, and what motivates them can help to strengthen those bonds. And when people, workplaces, and communities allow for that authentic connection, you are empowered to find your right fit.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why it’s important for communities to work together, especially if you live i...
The researchers of Diversity Disconnect sit down to discuss the lessons learned, recommendations put forward, and next steps for creating inclusive, diverse communities in rural and remote regions.
Links
- Learn more about the research: www.freereinassociates.ca/diversity-disconnect
- Find resources for employment success at Diversity At Work
- Learn more about Free Rein Associates
- Learn more about Life Strategies
- Learn more about...
Please note: this episode does end suddenly and unexpectedly. Due to a production error, the final three questions of this episode were unfortunately unusable.
Go behind the scenes of the research and hear from the Diversity Disconnect road team!
Links
- Learn more about the research: www.freereinassociates.ca/diversity-disconnect
- Find resources for employment success at Diversity At Work
- Learn more about Free Rein Associates
- L...
From the proposal phase of this project, Free Rein Associates knew it would specifically look to hire a diverse team that shared the experiences and challenges faced by our research participants. Mallory sits down with the team to share how that decision impacted the project and the difference it made in the lives of each team member.
Links
- Learn more about the research: www.freereinassociates.ca/diversity-disconnect
- Find re...
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