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Training and Advising

McGill's Senior Employment Equity Advisor offers training and advising designed to help you run an effective search and hire an excellent candidate, while using an equity lens.


Please tynan.jarrett [at] mcgill.ca (contact the Senior Employment Equity Advisor) if you would like more information about how to:

  1. Develop Departmental or Faculty-wide strategies around equity and hiring
  2. Recruit an excellent and diverse pool of candidates
  3. Understand how implicit bias might impact hiring and promotion decisions, and develop strategies to mitigate this
  4. Integrate information about McGill's Employment Equity Policy and law into your hiring goals and processes
  5. Enhance your understanding of the labour market context for your recruitment area
  6. Analyze systemic barriers that may be impeding your ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce, and explore possible strategies for addressing these barriers

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.

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