Exove's CTO Kalle Varisvirta shares his insights on diversity in recruitment. Kalle has many years of experience in recruiting software developers. Exove is a company with a diverse & inclusive workforce – and we are very proud of it! Read more about us: exove.com. Kalle was one of the speakers in the Agile Search HR meetup on 28 March and he gave this presentation there.

1. Diversity in
recruitment -
experiences
Kalle Varisvirta
CTO
Exove

2. Hi, I’m Kalle

3. ● Diversity means people of
different origin, different
culture, different history
● Different age, different
background, different
gender
● Different ideas, different
goals, different dreams and
different fears
Diversity?

4. ● There’s scientific data on
why diverse teams perform
better
● In my personal experience
diversity in teams enables
out-of-box ideas and
unique solutions
● You get a much larger
talent pool
Why should
we have
diversity?

5. How do we
achieve
diversity?

6. 22% of our
developers are
women

7. 29% of our
technology staff
(in Finland) are
not from Finland
originally

8. …but the game
is rigged.

9. Help people
start their career

10. ● People are easily inclined to
favour applicants who share
similar traits with them
● Train your supervisors or
managers to identify the
bias
● Train your supervisors or
managers to ignore
differences between
applicants that come from
diversity
Train your
staff to
identify bias

11. ● Flexible work time and
location
● Common language
● Understand different
motivators
Adapt for
diversity

12. ● Hierarchy
● Competitiveness
● Problems and the need for
help
Adapt for
different
cultures

13. A diverse
workplace

14. ● Our management style is
based on care
● We’re going personal
instead of self-service
Care as a
value

15. Challenges

16. ● We sell our people to clients
● Even though we don’t
normally do 100% on
location, we do it enough
for clients to care a lot who
they get
● We’re going backwards
Business

17. ● When you’re ready to
embrace diversity, you
should recruit also abroad
● From EU, it’s fairly simple,
but becomes complex
when you recruit outside
Recruiting
abroad

18. Thanks!