Colette Campbell DIRECTOR OF TALENT ACQUISITION, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION AT BREMER BANK
Q. In brief summary, what do you do? A. In my role at Bremer, I get to oversee the whole talent acquisition process and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The work that I do falls into three buckets. I think about the workforce: how are we finding talent? I think about the workplace: what does it feel like when people are here? And then I think about the marketplace: how are we showing up outside of the organization? How are we engaging in the communities that we're a part of? Our whole mission at Bremer is cultivating thriving communities. As we're thinking about the killing of George Floyd, we're thinking about what it means to be an equitable institution. It means that everybody's thriving in the community. So that's the question that we're asking ourselves: is everyone thriving? As we're putting out statements against racism, what does this mean for us? What does it mean for our customers? Q. What do you love most about your work? A.I love that it's always new. There are always new problems to solve, especially in the talent equation. My job was very different six months ago when we were looking for talent. Now we have the highest unemployment rates since the depression and there's a lot of talent out there. So my role has shifted from finding the “diamond in the rough” to looking through all of the talent that's available, repositioning ourselves to raise brand awareness, because there are a lot of people out there now who weren't looking to work here before.
Colette Cambell inspired attendees at the August 4 Virtual Ladyboss Summit with her presentation, “How to Be Something You Can’t See.” We sat down with Colette to learn more about cultivating thriving communities, finding the right career path for you (through plenty of trial and error), and measuring your diversity and inclusion “temperature.”
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