I want to start off by addressing one of the most common misconceptions out there when it comes to recruiting for diversity. It’s often said that recruiting for diversity means hiring less-qualified candidates to meet diversity targets at the expense of more qualified, less-diverse applicants. This is not what it means to recruit for diversity. The idea behind recruiting for diversity is the same as increasing your odds of finding the best candidate: to cast the widest possible net to increase the likelihood that you have a large pool of qualified applicants from which to choose.