Our Recruiters play an essential role in advancing a more diverse, accessible, equitable, and inclusive Amazon through our hiring, promotion, retention, and inclusion practices. How will you help us continue to improve these efforts?

A company can face significant diversity issues in their talent attraction and recruitment strategies, including bias in the application process, a lack of accommodation for physical disabilities, and a recruitment culture that encourages ageism. There are many strategies available today to improve diversity recruitment efforts, including:

- Writing new job ads and revising old ones to capture a broader audience.
- Looking for candidates from multiple places rather than sticking to one or two favorite job boards.
- Asking for candidate referrals from your existing team members with a broad network.
- Reaching out to post-secondary schools that attract a diverse student population and offer internships

If you have ever introduced new diversity recruitment strategies, provide details of these efforts in your response.

By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion, Amazon knows that the company and its employees will reap many benefits. Companies like Amazon that focus on DE&I will gain new perspectives and have better methods for problem-solving and improved creativity among their teams. Employee engagement increases, resulting in less turnover. When it comes to profits, a company can see an increase in sales because its reputation improves, and its employees feel more attached to its mission.

The interviewers would like to know what you would improve if it were in your hands to influence Amazon's DE&I recruitment plan. This question is an excellent opportunity to explore your knowledge of diversity and inclusion in recruitment. If you are not familiar with diversity recruitment and Amazon's stance on DE&I in its talent attraction strategies, do this research before your interview.

"As the lead Recruiter of a mid-level organization, I have learned to be highly conscious of potential biases occurring in the workplace. This year I led our company in a new technology implementation meant to reduce bias in the talent screening, hiring, and evaluation processes. As a result, our hiring process has become fair to genders, races, religions, and other social categories. The process is not perfect; however, we have seen a significant increase in diversity hires and a boost in overall company morale. I believe that embracing, encouraging, and increasing workplace diversity starts with talent attraction. First, recruitment efforts must include diverse talent pools and advertising on various platforms, casting a wider net for attracting a range of talented individuals. When it comes to the interview process, a company can have a diverse panel of interviewers versus leaving the hiring decisions to one person or a group of similar individuals. Another way a company can embrace diversity is to offer sensitivity training to all hiring authorities and leaders. All hiring managers and decision-makers should be aware of the range of workplace issues to avoid making discriminatory hires. If hired as an Amazon Recruiter, I will genuinely embrace everyone in the organization and treat everyone with the utmost respect. I will show cultural understanding and help my co-workers build their competency and understanding of others. I also plan to support your anti-discrimination policies by continually educating myself on emerging inclusion programs and practices."