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Since realising its job ads weren't appealing to female applicants, ANZ's technology division developed a workforce re-entry program that's attracting them in droves.

About five years ago, the head of ANZ's technology workforce, Carina Parisella, started talking to her colleagues in HR about departing from the bank's traditional recruitment practices, due to the lack of women applying.

It decided to empower the division's own people – "working parents who've lived the challenges of coming back to work after having a career break" – to design and scope a new approach.

Parisella and some fellow part-timers started thinking about how the whole recruitment process, from attracting and onboarding talent, through to retaining it, might be transformed...