One of the areas we want to focus on is increased representation and awareness of First nations' community in our organizations. First Nations community is severely under-represented in management consulting space (especially women) and experience various challenges. And we want to change that!

OBJECTIVE: Create a talent acquisition/sourcing plan that allows our organization to welcome first nations talents as we continue to grow

POSSIBLE PROJECT ACTIVITIES:

Though the scope would depend on the course objectives + what is best for the students, here are the activities I see happening.

- Researching + analyzing key challenges experienced by first nations communities that prevent them from advancing in the workforce

- What first nations talents want from their employers

- Coming up with retention strategies

- Identifying out-of-work challenges that may prevent first nations talents from fully thriving at work (and what can the organization do to support it; is it the additional benefits? is it relocation assistance? etc)

- Researching the contact information of possible community partners whose interest is in representing first nations communities (+ creating a sample outreach email)

- Possible recruitment channels that can be leveraged in the process

- The cultural competencies that the rest of the team should have to ensure first nations talents feel included (as a part of the onboarding curriculum, we have programs that we ask employees to take, but there's ALWAYS more than we can do)

FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES: This would be the very first edition of this plan, so we are quite flexible on the deliverable! However, we ask the plan to be actionable + well documented (ex. appropriate templates, resources, concise languaging, etc).

DESIRED START - END DATE: Subject to the course's start-end dates (ideally we'd like this done before the end of 2022 Q1)