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Inclusive recruitment: fairer adverts, selection and onboarding, from first click to first month
Every stage of hiring can widen your talent pool or quietly narrow it. The Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction module gives you inclusive job adverts, fairer selection methods, an onboarding checklist and guidance on AI in recruitment, from the first advert to the first month in the job.
A practical guide to inclusive recruitment, selection and onboarding
Published on
October 14, 2026
Contributors
James Pravato
Includability
Inclusive Community
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Inclusive recruitment means designing every stage of hiring so the best people can find you, apply, show what they can do and settle in, whatever their background. It covers where you advertise, how you write the advert, how you select, how you interview, and how you welcome people once they join.
The Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction module of the JEDI Inclusion Toolkit gives you the guidance, templates and checklists for each stage.
Why do good candidates fall away?
Most organisations want to hire fairly. But barriers build up in the small details: an advert full of jargon, a long list of must-haves, an online form that does not work with a screen reader, or an interview that rewards confidence over ability.
Each barrier removes a few people, and they are rarely the same few. By the shortlist, the field is narrower than it needed to be.
For B Corps, B Lab Standards V2 includes inclusive recruitment among the actions in the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Impact Topic.
What happens when hiring is not inclusive?
You keep hiring people from the same places, with the same backgrounds, and wonder why your workforce data does not change.
Candidates who need adjustments do not ask, or ask and are not supported, and you lose them.
New starters who do not feel welcome in their first weeks leave early, and the cost of hiring starts again.
What does the Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction module help you with?
Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction gives you inclusive job adverts, fairer selection methods and an onboarding checklist. It covers four areas:
↳ Inclusive attraction, job adverts and application process. Where to advertise, how to write and review adverts, and how to screen fairly.
↳ Selection methods and interview formats. How to choose the right method, prepare interviews, offer adjustments and score consistently.
↳ Inclusive onboarding and induction. How to plan a welcome that works for every new starter, with adjustments in place from day one.
↳ AI in recruitment. What to check before using AI tools in hiring.
What do you get?
↳ A guide to inclusive attraction, job adverts and the application process, with a template: Channel map, Advert review grid and Screening record
↳ A slide deck on inclusive hiring and recruitment
↳ A guide to selection methods and interview formats, with a template: Method chooser, Interview pack, Adjustments and Scoring grid
↳ A guide to inclusive onboarding and induction, with a template: Review grid, Adjustments record, Onboarding plan and Onboarding checklist
↳ An inclusive onboarding checklist, UK version
↳ A guidance sheet on AI in recruitment, with a slide deck
What will you end up with?
↳ Job adverts reviewed for inclusive language and realistic requirements
↳ A channel map that reaches beyond your usual talent pools
↳ Fairer selection methods, with structured interviews and a consistent scoring grid
↳ An adjustments process for candidates and new starters
↳ An onboarding plan and checklist that welcomes everyone
Why does it work for any employer?
Every employer competes for talent. Inclusive recruitment widens your pool, improves the quality of your decisions and helps new people stay. The module is built on good practice first and works for any organisation, whether you hire a few people a year or hundreds.
The templates slot into your existing process, so you can improve one stage at a time.
How is it built around the B Corp standards?
Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction supports JEDI2.g in the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Impact Topic of B Lab Standards V2.
Your channel map, advert reviews, screening records, scoring grids and onboarding records show how your hiring works in practice. Every module in the toolkit names the criteria it supports and the evidence it produces.
B Lab certifies B Corps. Includability supports the work you supply as evidence.
Where does Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction fit in the toolkit?
The JEDI Inclusion Toolkit follows four steps, in the order that suits you: find out where you stand, decide what to do, do the work, and show what changed. This module sits in the third step, doing the work.
It pairs well with Talent Pooling and Pipelines, which develops the people you already have, and with Inclusive Communications and Accessible Events for accessible adverts and assessment days.
For the full requirements by company size, read our guide to the B Corp JEDI requirements.
How much does it cost?
Or get all 13 modules.
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What is included
Price (Ex VAT)
JEDI Inclusion Toolkit
All 13 modules
£999
JEDI Inclusion Toolkit, Committed Employer rate
All 13 modules, at the partner rate
£650
JEDI Inclusion Toolkit plus Self-ID Survey
All 13 modules and one survey with structured analysis and headline summary reporting
£3499
Committed Employer under £2m turnover, with the toolkit and cultural roadmap
£1,495 partnership plus the toolkit at £650
£2,145
Committed Employer over £2m turnover, with the toolkit and cultural roadmap
£2,995 partnership plus the toolkit at £650
£3645
Bought separately, the paid modules come to £1,900 + VAT, so the full toolkit saves £901. Introductory 2026 pricing. Prices are subject to change.
Who built the JEDI Inclusion Toolkit?
Includability is a UK B Corp workplace culture business. We partner with organisations to build inclusive, diverse, mentally healthy, evidence-based workplace cultures.
We have worked in inclusion and workplace culture for more than six years, with some of the best-known organisations in the UK, through our Cultural Roadmap and support services. Our three directors bring more than 30 years' combined experience and have helped develop toolkits for well-known brands, including sporting organisations. Between them, they cover HR, diversity and inclusion, leadership and governance, mental health and wellbeing, talent and recruitment, inclusive communications and digital accessibility.
We know B Corp from the inside, too. Our directors have been through the B Corp process three times with two different businesses, Includability is a B Corp with a score of 143.2, and the team is working towards becoming B Leaders.
Get the module, or the full toolkit
Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction is available on the Includability Academy for £300 + VAT. The full JEDI Inclusion Toolkit gives you all 13 modules, with guidance, templates, videos and slide decks.
Get Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction, £300 + VAT (£360 inc VAT)
Get the full toolkit, £999 + VAT
Not ready to buy? Four modules are free, starting with Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and B Corp. Start free.
Already a Committed Employer? Get the full toolkit for just £650 + VAT. Book a call.
Hiring now? List your roles on the Includability Job Board.
Not sure where to start?
Book a call and we will walk you through becoming a Committed Employer. It includes our Cultural Roadmap with a JEDI Gap Analysis, which shows where you stand today, so you can go straight to the modules that close your gaps. If you already know your gaps, the toolkit is ready to get you started and support you as you go.
The Roadmap shows the gaps. The toolkit closes them and produces your evidence.
Questions people ask
What is inclusive recruitment?
Inclusive recruitment is hiring designed so that the best people can find you, apply, show what they can do and settle in, whatever their background. It covers attraction, adverts, selection, interviews and onboarding.
How do you write an inclusive job advert?
Use plain language, separate the essential requirements from the nice-to-haves, state the salary and flexibility, and explain how to ask for adjustments. The advert review grid helps you check each one.
What are fair selection methods?
Methods that test what the job really needs, applied the same way to every candidate, with adjustments for those who need them. Structured interviews and a consistent scoring grid are a good start.
Is it safe to use AI in recruitment?
AI tools can save time, but they can also repeat the biases in the data they learned from. Check how a tool works, test it for unfair outcomes and keep a person in the decision. The module's AI in recruitment guidance sets out what to check.
Do we need to be a B Corp to use it?
No. The toolkit is built on good practice first and works for any employer. B Corps get the JEDI criteria mapping on top.
Is the JEDI Inclusion Toolkit a certification?
No. Includability does not certify, accredit or verify anything. B Lab certifies B Corps, and the toolkit helps you do the work and gather the evidence.
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Inclusive recruitment: fairer adverts, selection and onboarding, from first click to first month
Every stage of hiring can widen your talent pool or quietly narrow it. The Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding and Induction module gives you inclusive job adverts, fairer selection methods, an onboarding checklist and guidance on AI in recruitment, from the first advert to the first month in the job.
B Lab Standards V2 made Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion a requirement for every B Corp, backed by evidence. Here is what the JEDI criteria ask for, why few organisations can do it alone, and how a Cultural Roadmap, the JEDI Inclusion Toolkit and the Includability community give you the support to meet them.
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