Social Cultivating Diverse Talent It takes more than passion to drive diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Finding, hiring, and developing talent make up the foundation of our commitment to DIB. To that end, we’re working on multiple fronts to widen how we find, hire, and develop talent. – Diverse partnerships: To help achieve our goal of providing a top workplace for our employees, NetApp partners with a wide mix of external organizations. For example, NetApp promotes interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among minorities, women, veterans, and other diverse talent by working with a mix of partners, including: CEO Action for Racial Equity, Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE), and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). – Smarter recruiting and retention: Over the past year, we have elevated efforts to improve how we attract, hire, and develop diverse talent. For example, a new talent enablement tool, Fuel50, is improving our approach to career development by providing greater visibility to internal opportunities and equipping employees to take a more proactive role in their development. We also use Eightfold, a tool to assist with diversity hiring by rapidly sorting groups of candidates by key criteria. These efforts strengthen existing efforts such as requiring diverse candidate pools and diverse interview panels.