Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Focus on attracting, developing and retaining excellent talent Our Roadmap In 2020, we took concrete steps to attract, develop and retain top talent. We focused internally on upskilling and retooling our recruiting organization. During our first DEI Recruiting Summit, we shared tools and best practices with the entire global organization for scouting and landing the best talent from underrepresented communities. All participants completed our Our DEI Roadmap—outlined below—highlights the steps we customized unconscious bias training for recruiters. This Summit will become an annual tradition that we hope to expand upon will continue to take in order to improve on our diversity and in 2021. inclusion metrics and integrate DEI best practices into our business operations. Our approach is simple: We expanded our Internship Program to become our driving force in attracting diverse talent at our professional entry level. Focus The program is intended to convert college students into employees for early career opportunities across our entire business. In 2020, we hosted more than 1,400 interns during the spring, summer and fall. We built exciting internships and co-op on attracting, developing and retaining excellent talent experiences that integrated into the core fundamentals of our businesses: Manufacturing, Energy and Technology. Interns Integrate joined us from all around the world and completed internships in the U.S., EMEA and APAC. diversity, equity and inclusion principles and practices into We also expanded our military fellowship program in 2020 by partnering with the Air Force Education with Industry Program the DNA of our company and the Secretary of the Navy’s Tour with Industry Fellowship Program. The 2020 fellows spent the year immersed in our energy, construction and logistics organizations gaining invaluable insight and perspective to help accelerate innovation upon Connect their return to active duty. communities internally and externally to opportunities with Tesla Integrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles and practices into the DNA of our company In 2020, we instituted quarterly diversity data reviews across our different divisions – this ensures that we identify trends and needs across functions instead of simply looking at our workforce at the company-wide level. Each executive reviews their organization’s demographic data from a variety of angles and works with their DEI, HR and Recruiting partners to create an action plan to attract, develop and retain talent. As a result of integrating the talent management function into the DEI function, we were able to deliver a consistent and fair performance review process in which 99% of all U.S. employees were rated on their performance. The program has led to improvements in our internal mobility program and employee’s access to career opportunities within Tesla. We expanded our leadership development team with a focus on providing DEI offerings to all our U.S. employees. Now all employees are introduced to our DEI principles on Day 1 of their employment in New Hire Orientation and have the opportunity to continue their DEI learning journey throughout their career at Tesla. From our allyship resources and DEI Life Hacks on our DEI Knowledge Center to virtual instructor led courses on unconscious bias, inclusive interviewing and inclusive leadership, our employees now have access to information no matter where they located in the world or are in their own knowledge journey. 74
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