Maury Hanigan Has Something to Say About That Stock Photo on Your Career Site

Diversity

Feb 24, 2016

This article is part of a series called Videos.

If you want to attract minorities to your jobs where minorities are under-represented, make sure you feature them — as opposed to a bunch of homogenous photos — in your recruitment marketing and career site.

Actually, not so fast, says Maury Hanigan. Hanigan, CEO of Sparc, says that the ubiquitous stock photos of employees of various races may be well intentioned, but not always the best idea and certainly no magic solution to a diversity problem.

Hanigan and I talk about this and other diversity issues in the video below.