SelectMinds WomenConnect™
Building connections that empower women to advance
“Only 5 percent of highly qualified women looking to return to work after a leave of absence are interested in rejoining the companies they left.
In business sectors, that percentage is zero.”
— Harvard Business Review
Women have filled two jobs for every one filled by a man since 1970. Every year in America, 140 women enroll in higher education for every 100 men. And yet, many companies still lack proportionate numbers of women in senior roles, causing a lack of motivation, commitment, and engagement of women employees throughout the enterprise. At the same time, women may be pulled by outside factors, including families. The result is often a hidden brain drain, with more and more women opting to off-ramp and rarely returning.
Many companies have developed offline women’s programs to help promote women within the organization. These programs, while gaining results, are often decentralized and reliant upon local sponsorship to succeed. SelectMinds helps companies pull together all of their women’s initiatives while at the same time connecting this important workforce.
The SelectMinds WomenConnect Corporate Social Networking solution helps you engage, mentor, and network women in your organization and those who may have left. Providing a secure, online network for your women employees and alumnae helps them to share their challenges, learn about initiatives that may help them advance their careers, and even helps them understand how to return to the workforce. WomenConnect can provide significant benefits to your company:
- Enhanced employment brand targeting professional women. Women’s Networks send the marketplace a strong message that women are valued by your company and that you spend the time and resources to ensure they are heard.
- Centralized women’s initiatives, even locally, to drive momentum. With SelectMinds WomenConnect, you can manage communication and tracking of your women’s events and programs. Member profiles can also help you target information by location - or any other criteria – to maintain a personalized and nuanced experience.
- Increased retention of women. Women’s Networks foster an environment and culture where women can thrive, achieving the powerful goal of making women want to stay despite the “pull” factors.
- Re-recruitment of women. By keeping women connected during off-ramp periods, WomenConnect helps ensure that when they are ready to return to professional life, they choose your company.
- Greater business development. There is a strong correlation between success and diversity. In fact a recent study by Catalyst revealed that companies with more women in senior management earned a higher return on equity than those with fewer women on top.
SelectMinds offers an alternative to the traditional “old boys’” networks, where women can make business and personal connections, create mentoring relationships, discover their own events, discuss issues specifically related to them, and find resources for career advancement.
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