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Round I Track A:EMERGING ERG (0-3 YEARS): Fuel a Diverse Talent Pipeline
FACILITATOR: Goki Muthusamy / Senior Director, Diversity & Inclusion / Visa
PRESENTERS:Connie Dingeman / Recruiting Manager / Progressive Insurance (Vice Chair, MILNET)
Nick Randazzo / IT Solution Architect / Siemens (Program Coordinator, STEM@SIEMENS)
Herb Sims / Director, Diversity & Inclusion / Northrop Grumman
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Connie DingemanRecruiting ManagerProgressive Insurance (Vice Chair, MILNET)
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HIRING OUR HEROES: HOW PROGRESSIVE ENGAGED IN
MILITARY RECRUITINGConnie Dingeman, SHRM SCP
Recruiting Manager & Military ERG (MILNET) Vice Chair Progressive Insurance
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• Founded in 1937
• Fourth largest auto insurer in the country
• Insurance for personal & commercial vehicles, motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles, and homes
• Based in Cleveland, Ohio
• 30,000+ employees in all 50 states
WHO WE ARE
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⸗MILNET our military ERG formed in 2013
⸗Building a supportive culture through internal programs and better recognition
⸗Creating external partnership to improve employee engagement
⸗Partnership with Recruiting to attract military talent
Military ERG: Focus on improved Recruiting & Retention
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⸗ Hiring Manager education tool⸗How to translate military skills into corporate skills
⸗Ensure hiring managers were giving equal weight to the backgrounds of military candidates
⸗ Creating a culture of appreciation for our military members and their families⸗Military Appreciation Month in May
⸗Veteran’s Day “roll call”
⸗ Sending care packages to deployed Progressive employees
Internal Engagement
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⸗ Key to Progress
⸗ Donating refurbished vehicles to veterans and their families
⸗ MILNET helped to find recipients for the vehicles
⸗ Ohio National Guard (ONG) employer network
⸗ Participating and hosting the employer roundtable
⸗ Hiring our Heroes (HOH)
⸗ Career fairs to improve the veteran candidate pipeline
⸗ Create an internal HOH participation guideline to assist recruiting and hiring managers with successful veteran outreach at these events
⸗ Fisher House
⸗ Engaging ERG ambassadors and volunteers across the country in hosting events and/or contributing to Fisher House locations
External Engagement
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⸗ Building Pipeline of Military Talent
⸗ Participation in Hiring our Hero events up by 40%
⸗ Received the GI Jobs: Military Friendly Companies & Military Times: Best of the Vets Awards
⸗ Significant increase in Military hires
⸗ 54 hires 2014 to 378 hires in 2016 (600%)
⸗ Improved employee engagement & recognition
⸗ Over 2,000 employees participated in Military Appreciation month activities honoring veterans and their families
⸗ Annual Veteran’s Day roll-call – saying “thank-you” to 1,300+ military employees for their service
⸗ Continued ERG growth – increasing membership by 500 employees in the last year
Results
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Questions?
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Nick RandazzoIT Solution ArchitectSiemens (Program Coordinator, STEM@SIEMENS)
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About Siemens & why this topic is important to us
An anecdote about diversity in technology
How STEM became a strategic topic
Building the pipeline: community outreach approach
Fueling a Diverse Talent Pipeline
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About Siemens
Mission: “We make real what matters”
Ownership culture: Every employee is empowered to act as if it were our own company
Strategy: Positioning along the electrification value chain
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A story about diversity in technology…
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STEM as a strategic initiative @ Siemens
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Building a diverse talent pipeline
▪ Outreach programs make direct impact on diverse talent during their formative years
▪ Organizing volunteers, hands-on activities, and materials that inspire future innovators
▪ Relationship building with faculty and students, repeat what works (annual events, partnerships)
Internships: Provide real-world hands-on experience through work experience programs
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STEM@SIEMENS Summer Work Experience Pilot
▪ Students from a 2 year community college placed in business units for 12 week work program
▪ Students gained real-world experience, learned about Siemens business, contributed, and received college credit
▪ Weekly workshops and site tours provided skills, tools necessary to succeed
Many students are now in long term internships or positions & all managers will participate again
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Nick RandazzoIT Solution ArchitectSTEM@SIEMENS Co-chair
Siemens Corporation
4400 N Alafaya TrailOrlando, FL 32826
(407) [email protected]
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Round I Track A:EMERGING ERG (0-3 YEARS): Fuel a Diverse Talent Pipeline
FACILITATOR: Goki Muthusamy / Senior Director, Diversity & Inclusion / Visa
PRESENTERS:Connie Dingeman / Recruiting Manager / Progressive Insurance (Vice Chair, MILNET)
Nick Randazzo / IT Solution Architect / Siemens (Program Coordinator, STEM@SIEMENS)
Herb Sims / Director, Diversity & Inclusion / Northrop Grumman