2022 HR Impact Awards: Cook Medical
Bloomington-based Cook Medical wins in the education and training category for making it easier for people in its community to earn their high school equivalency diploma.
Bloomington-based Cook Medical wins in the education and training category for making it easier for people in its community to earn their high school equivalency diploma.
The HR department in 2018 launched a life sciences training program. The paid program is for students in their senior year of college and graduates who are serious about a career with animal or plant conservation.
Since then, the DEI and talent-acquisition teams have implemented several programs and initiatives related to diverse hiring and recruitment.
In 2017, Carmel-based financial software firm Baker Hill brought employee recruitment in house. But it didn’t hire someone to do the recruiting. Instead, it looked to its employees. After the company was acquired by private-equity firm Riverside in 2016, it experienced rapid growth. At the time, Baker Hill was paying outside recruiting firms about $800,000 […]
Zotec is a data and analytics company, and it regularly measures the effectiveness of these programs. It has found, so far, through its biannual engagement survey, that most employees are highly engaged.
The company’s HR reps forged a partnership with Marathon Health, which provides a family practitioner, counseling services and pharmacy free to employees and their families.
The PS&E Fun Committee organizes monthly lunches and events: Employees had lunch at Victory Field and played kickball in the outfield this summer, and thanks to a suggestion from one employee, there might be a pickleball tournament in their future.
One program, Baby on Board, gives new moms a chance to ease back into the workforce. For the first four weeks a new mother is back in the office, she sits in a special office set up with everything she might need to bring her baby to work.
Karin Sarratt, executive vice president at OneAmerica, told IBJ the company has not set hiring goals for diversity. There are no quotas.
The school’s successes in recruiting diverse faculty come down to caring