Attracting quality candidates/job seekers and retaining the staff/employees your company/organization has already invested in can be a challenge. Further adding that as an employer you are dedicated to building, fostering and maintaining a work environment and culture that is diversity and inclusion focused is a worthy, and rewarding huge task. So many organizations struggle with how to best reach the targeted diversity job seeker audience they desire with few resources to make your efforts well known. OutBüro (www.OutBuro.com) is a resource for employers of all types, sizes, and no matter where in the world you operate who desire to have a robust LGBTQ employer branding and recruiting marketing strategy.
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OutBüro meaning and pronunciation
Out is an English world and often used in the LGBTQ community. Its history of use stems from the phrase “Out of the Closet” meaning not hiding one’s sexual orientation.
Büro is a German word that in English means “office”. The two dots are called an umlaut and makes the “u” long sound. Büro sounds exactly like the English word “bureau”, such as a news bureau.
So combined OutBüro means Out Office, which in the context of the site is Out Company, Out Organization, Out Employer in support of your LGBTQ employees and job seekers.
Why is LGBTQ Employer Branding needed?
You may believe that if your company is listed one of the LGBTQ Corporate Equality Index that obtaining a top score there is your golden grail of letting the LGBTQ community know you’re a great place to work as an LGBTQ employee. However, those listings are limited in so many ways. For those organizations fortunate enough to be large enough to be on those listings it merely indicates that LGBTQ inclusive policies benefits and some business practices are present to a degree. They might state if the company/organization does LGBTQ-focused marketing and actively recruits LGBTQ candidates. They are however not a platform for you to control and consolidate your LGBTQ messaging. Further, OutBüro provides social proving allowing you to link to your and 3rd party website clearly showing the policies in place, benefits you have, your marketing in video and print, your inclusive recruitment marketing efforts, your political contributions and your community involvement to name some of the features. It allows you to also upload lots of photos and link to lots of videos further demonstration all the hard work you are putting into your full LGBTQ diversity and inclusion program. You may indicate LGBTQ organizations and businesses you sponsor, any form of funding you have available for LGBTQ non-profits and LGBTQ owned businesses to apply for. Further you may indicate the number of out and visible LGBTQ management within your organization. In addition, it provides you an opportunity to post articles directly on the platform highlighting all that you do. Some ideas might be quarterly updates on the activities of your LGBTQ employee resource group, LGBTQ career fairs you are participating in, feature LGBTQ employees, and pretty much any news/stories related to your LGBTQ inclusive efforts. Go ahead and show off all your hard work.
LGBTQ employer ratings by employees
Your OutBüro rating is based not only having policies, benefits, and practices in place, although those are important, but rather from the ratings/reviews from current and recent past employees. Recent past as we define it means up to 5 years. See the employee-focused video below for more information from that perspective.
Even a small business/organization that do not yet have official LGBTQ inclusive policies and benefit may still be rated as an excellent employer by their employees.
Timely LGBTQ employer equality ratings
Your company/organization is constantly evolving so OutBüro’s LGBTQ employer ratings/reviews are too. Employees may initially rate/review your company/organization at any time 24/7/365. Once an employe posts a rating/review it is live on the site immediately and aggregated into your overall rating. They may rate/review you every 4 months on their own unique timeline. Imagine an employer of say 100,000 employees. Let’s say 7% of the workforce identifies as LGBTQ and heteroflexible. That would be a potential of 7,000+ reviews/ratings up to every quarter. This provides you timely and insightful feedback on the state of your environment and culture.
OutBüro for employers
Most company/organization career/job pages have little to no information regarding all the incredible policies, benefits, employee resource groups and LGBTQ community the company/organization has and participates in.
Although in a few countries there are LGBTQ Workplace/Corporate Equality Indexes, these are typically limited to only the Fortune 1000 and/or the countries very largest organizations. Being present on those lists is quite an achievement for which you should be rightly proud of. It is however not the full picture of all you do. They are limited to indicating the policies and benefits you have if you are large enough to be invited to participate.
In just the United States the Fortune 1000 employs approximate 8% of the workforce. That represents around 33 million employees and obviously a huge number. We’d love to have all those employers leverage the OutBüro LGBTQ employer branding and review monitoring solution and welcome all employers of every type and size.
LGBTQ employee marketing difficult to find
As a corporation/organization works to create all the great LGBTQ inclusive policies, benefits and business practices to be an attractive employer to LGBTQ candidates often the marketing of that effort is a second thought if at all. While focusing on building the OutBüro and our initial adding around 300 Fortune 1000 companies we discovered that for the vast majority it is downright difficult to find LGBTQ information about the company/organization. Now put yourself in the position of the LGBTQ job seeker wanting to have a clear picture of the kind of company/organization they are considering applying for. The absence of information or difficulty locating it on the internet searches is a potential indicator that the company/organization is not very LGBT friendly at all. OutBüro is your solution to consolidate your LGBTQ employer branding making it super easy for potential candidates to see you as an outstanding LGBTQ employer.
For Every Employer Type
OutBüro recognizes that LGBTQ people are employed by every type of company/organization. When claiming/adding your Employer listing to OutBüro you specify the legal entity type which currently includes the following:
- Company – Public
- Company – Private
- SubsidiaryBranch/Franchise
- Sole Proprietor
- Government
- College / University
- PAC – Political Action Committee
- Non Profit (General)
- LGBTQ Focused Non-Profit
For employers everywhere
LGBTQ people live everywhere and likely where your business/organization operates. Therefore, OutBüro is not geographically bound. In fact, our LinkedIn LGBTQ professional group currently has over 46,000 global members and site traffic to the www.OutBuro.com website demonstrates interest globally. Here’s an OutBüro site traffic map of June 2019.
Consolidate your LGBTQ employer branding
OutBüro is your tool to consolidate and focus your employer branding efforts to clearly demonstrate what a fantastic employer you are for LGBTQ candidates/job seekers and your current employees. We’ll be adding articles/postings discussing all the current features very soon and in the meantime check out the following:
Steps to Claim Employer Listing on OutBüro
This is a user guide for when your company/organization is already present on OutBüro detailing the step to claim your listing as an authorized representative of the company/organization.
Steps to Add an Employer Listing by Authorized Person
This is a user guide for adding your company/organization to the OutBüro employer branding and reviews monitoring platform when it is not already present as an authorized representative of the company/organization.
LGBTQ Employer Rating/Reviews Overview [Video]
This explainer video discusses OutBüro employer ratings/reviews intent and process from an employee’s perspective. It is beneficial as an employer to review so that you are aware of the information and data OutBüro seeks input on.
LGBT Diversity And Inclusion: Benefits Company, Employees and Customers
Every company/organization can benefit from embracing and fostering a work environment and culture of diversity and inclusion where your LGBTQ employees feel welcomed and that they belong. It improves team communication, problem-solving creativity, promotes happy employes that in turn create amazing experiences for your clients/customers that lead to improved financial benefits.
It’s not a perfect
No, that’s right, OutBüro does not claim to be perfect. It has been developed from our experience and industry practices. We’re off to a strong start in helping you consolidate your LGBTQ employer branding and reviews monitoring. We are a new tool and platform that is focused on evolving, growing and expanding for you and LGBTQ employees/volunteers. Just as your organization evolved from its beginnings to where you are today, so will OutBüro as more company/organizations come on board and we receive constructive feedback on way to improve the system.
Get started today
To get started on OutBüro you don’t have to be perfect either. You are also evolving and we recognize that. OutBüro employer annual subscriptions are based on the total number of employees so it’s affordable for any size employer.
Your employees/volunteers may add you to the system and rate/review you even if you have not yet claimed/add your employer listing yet. Ideally, you’ll jump in and claim/add your listing providing as much of the information as possible. Note that to get started there are only a few required fields and you may edit your listing at any time as you gain more information, locate resources, improve your LGBTQ policies, benefits, and practices. Let’s grow and evolve together.
