Widen Your Search and See Your Team Surge Forward

You look around your software engineer team. It’s a good team, but it lacks something that could make it a great team. Diversity.

Diversity is linked to:

• Better performance
• Increased profits
• Greater creativity
• Increased innovation
• Escalated business growth
• A strong competitive stance for the most talented software engineers

As well as these industry-beating advantages, a report by McKinsey and Company identified financial advantages to companies incorporating ethnic and gender diversity into their workplaces.

Now you want to know a little more about how diversity can improve your software engineer team before developing your hiring strategy.

Diversity Is the Key That Opens the Door to Outperformance

You want your team to excel. You want your business to develop with new solutions and ideas. You don’t want to merely survive; you want to thrive and surge ahead of your competitors.

If this is the case, don’t fear a clash of individuals in your team. Diversity brings together a galaxy of ideas in a culture you create as a team and company. Here are five benefits that diversity delivers.

1.     Diversity Improves Your Bottom Line

Your software engineering team must be innovative to empower business growth. The tech industry thrives on change and creating solutions. When you have a diverse workforce, you have a diverse set of minds and perspectives.

Diversity has a direct impact on the forward motion of your business. A study by BCG revealed how companies with more diverse teams enjoy 19% higher revenue, because of innovation.

Diversity is not just a factor you should consider, but an integral cog in generating revenue. The more diverse your team, the bigger your bottom line is likely to be.

2.     Diversity Improves the Collaboration of Your Software Engineer Team

Candidates want to work for a company with a diverse culture. Though thought processes and individual cultures vary greatly, diverse teams feel safe sharing ideas and varied views in an environment where diversity of opinion is encouraged and respected.

With such a free-flow communication channel between software engineers, engagement is high, which results in increased productivity.

The result is innovative and successful results as a team, delivering faster and higher-quality outcomes together. With new perspectives and experiences brought to the table, personal learning and development also soars.

3.     Diversity Reduces Your Employee Turnover

Your software engineers will thrive in an environment that allows them to do so, no matter ‘who’ they are. As they develop and learn from their colleagues, and progress professionally, they’ll likely stay with a company who supports them. Your team will suffer less employee attrition, and morale will strengthen.

With reduced employee turnover, you’ll reduce the expense of hiring costs to replace staff. This allows you to invest more back into the business, developing your software engineering team further and sharing your financial success with your employees.

4.     Diversity Is Great for Your Culture

Improving diversity in your organization must not be misunderstood as a compliance obligation. This will not enhance your culture.

A strong culture expresses the genuine and transparent belief that gender, race, religious belief, background, and so on, are not barriers to personal and professional growth, enhancing team performance.

When you create a powerful culture that welcomes diversity, you encourage all team members to develop greater understanding and empathy. This enhances collaboration and promotes sharing of ideas and experience, enhancing individual and team skills.

5.     Diversity Improves Your Employer Brand

You nurture your employees. You care for their thoughts and ideas. You want them to succeed, as individuals and as a team.

In return, they want to work for you. You’ll see the most talented software engineers wanting a long-term career in your company, where they feel they can develop in a supported, fast-moving, competitive environment.

Your diverse employer brand will also, in turn, promote business from clients. They will reap the benefits of your more innovative software engineering team, and will want to do business with an organization who promotes diversity.

Get Started on Creating a More Diverse Software Engineer Team

The benefits of developing a more diverse software engineer team are well documented. You should experience improved engagement and performance, higher employee retention, and an increase in innovation and creativity. Your bottom line should improve, and your employer brand will attract the most talented candidates for your open vacancies.

Don’t miss out on incredible software engineers. Widen your search for the best candidates from a diverse pool of talent, benefitting from our help to find them.

We’re an award-winning information technology and staffing solutions provider. We want to understand your business and cultural needs, and we’re here to help you hire the tech talent you need for your diverse software engineering team. Contact Irvine Technology Corporation today.