Apply It 5.6: Career Connection: Equity and Inclusion

Explore equity and inclusion as a career skill

Equity and Inclusion

You can view the transcript for “Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace” here (opens in new window).

As the video showed, equity and inclusion are important to businesses. This career competency contributes to productivity and business success. It’s so important that questions about equity and inclusion are now very common in job interviews. How would you answer the following questions?

  1. What does equity and inclusion mean to you?
  2. Talk about an example of when you work on a diverse team or worked with diverse stakeholders.
  3. What would you do to create an equitable and inclusive environment?

Dig Deeper

With the availability of media on the internet, learning about equity and inclusion is more accessible than ever. Check out these options:

  • Check Your Privilege, a podcast that examines both privilege and marginalization. While you may experience the advantages of privilege in some circumstances, that doesn’t mean you may not also experience hardship in others.
  • Code Switch, a storytelling podcast that looks at how race and culture affect every aspect of society.
  • This Land, an 8-episode podcast about how a murder in Oklahoma sparked a legal battle that would decide the future of five Native American Tribes and almost half the land in Oklahoma. A trailer about the series is available on YouTube.
  • Poverty, Inc., a documentary that examines charity as a business and the unintended consequences of aid in developing economies. A trailer is available on YouTube and the full documentary is viewable on Tubi.
  • American Factory, a documentary about a Chinese billionaire re-opening a factory in the U.S. Midwest and how the cultures mix. A trailer is viewable on YouTube and the full documentary is viewable with a Netflix subscription.
  • Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, a documentary about the only American bank that was prosecuted for mortgage fraud after the 2008 Great Recession and financial crisis, which was fueled in part by questionable actions within the mortgage industry. Abacus is a bank that serves an immigrant community and did not receive any federal bailout funds. A trailer and the full documentary is viewable on YouTube.