Hilton Sets Leadership Diversity Goals Ahead of Hotels Jobs Revival
Photo Credit: Hilton rolled out new diversity in leadership targets this week, aiming to achieve gender parity in global leadership roles and 25 percent ethnic diversity in U.S. executive levels by 2027. Wikimedia / Altercari
Skift Take
Diversity in leadership makes a company better — period. While to be commended for laying the groundwork for advancing diversity when hiring picks back up, Hilton and other hotel companies can't stop with their latest diversity targets. This needs to be a long-term initiative across the entire industry.
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It may not seem like a massive hiring target for a deadline nearly six years away. Company leaders told Skift last year of a hiring goal to have a 50 percent diverse slate of candidates interview for any open position at Hilton. But Hilton’s chief human resources officer says the hiring goals are ambitious given the reality of today’s hotel industry and uncertainty in when recruiting gets back to pre-pandemic levels. “It seems like the right time to set th
