Recruiting inclusively in STEM

VIRTUAL ONLINE

Designed for professionals and teams involved in recruiting for STEM roles who want to embed equity and inclusion into their hiring practices.

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About

Learn how to build fairer, more inclusive recruitment practices in STEM – whether you are a hiring manager, HR or EDI professional or just looking to understand what your organisation could do differently.

Through practical tools, real-life examples, and hands-on exercises, you’ll leave with clear strategies to attract diverse talent and embed equity into your hiring process. Enabling you to make inclusive recruitment the standard, not the exception.

• Recognise how bias and stereotype impact recruitment decisions and outcomes
• Identify exclusionary practices – from job design to onboarding
• Write inclusive job adverts and person specifications to attract diverse talent
• Apply practical tool to ensure fair shortlisting, interviewing, and selection
• Meet the legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010
• Build confidence in engaging underrepresented talent pools
• Improve accessibility to across the various recruitment stages
• Develop actionable strategies from real-life examples and exercises

Who should attend?

This course is designed for HR professionals, hiring managers, recruiters, and EDI practitioners working in STEM industries or academia. It’s also ideal for recruitment agencies, senior leaders, and anyone involved in sourcing or selecting candidates for STEM roles. This course also links to section E of the Engineering Council’s UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC).

Speaker

Dr Athina Frantzana

WISE Training and Delivery Manager

Dr Athina Frantzana is WISE’s Training & Delivery Manager with over a decade of experience in Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in STEM. Her PhD research pioneered understanding of women’s representation in advanced computing. Athina has delivered impactful EDI training across industry, academia, and the public sector, and is a trusted consultant in data analysis, policy development, and leadership coaching. She ensures WISE’s products are consistently evidence-based and relevant.

Programme

Topics covered

• The impact of bias and stereotypes in recruitment
• Legal context: Equality Act 2010 and compliance
• Inclusive job design, advertising, and language
• Fair shortlisting, interviewing, and selection practices
• Engaging underrepresented talent pools
• Practical tools and strategies for inclusive hiring

Course objectives

• Recognise and reduce bias in recruitment processes to support fair and equitable hiring in STEM roles.
• Apply inclusive strategies across the full recruitment cycle—from job design to onboarding.
• Build confidence and capability to attract, engage, and retain diverse talent using practical tools and real-world examples.

 In-company training

This training course can be delivered in-house at your company premises, either with an in-house trainer providing face-to-face learning or virtually using MS Teams.

Group booking discount

The following discount codes are for member and non-member delegate registration only, and not applicable for student bookings.

10% discount for 3 to 4 delegates –  17533GR3TO4
15% discount for 5 plus delegates –  17533GR5PLUS

Please note that payment must be made in full when registering.

If you need to pay for your group by proforma invoice, please contact events@theiet.org