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"Priority" hiring program paying off for Hoban

Hoban Recruitment's award-winning priority hiring program is beating the talent crunch and delivering fairer, barrier-free recruitment, says CEO Alison Watts.

The company set up its pathways to employment program to ensure the team was recruiting from the whole of the community, "and that our procedures are fair and easily accessible for everybody", she tells Shortlist.

The process is also barrier-free, Watts adds, noting recruiters tend to "forget about that" part.

"I mean we forget that if someone's been out of work for two or three years, they actually lack confidence. So the pathways to employment program has been set up to get people into a routine of coming to work and, most importantly, build their confidence."

In developing its framework Hoban spoke extensively to the Australian Network on Disability, becoming accredited in the organisation's 'disability confident recruiter program' in 2019...