Diversity
There are compelling reasons why everyone at Michael Page International is encouraged to embrace diversity; business reasons, legal reasons and, most importantly, moral ones.
We believe it is essential for the future of every enterprise that diversity is adopted as a universal principle, enabling individuality to flourish regardless of gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, marital status, family circumstances, age, disability, sexual orientation, political or religious belief.
In our business we vigorously promote a culture of diversity. Our clients expect it if we are to propose candidates for their workforce that we have a healthy range of attitudes and characteristics that reflects fairly the society we live in.
There is also UK employment legislation in place that ensures we apply diversity in all companies, regardless of size or sector. This is designed to eliminate discrimination in the workplace and give everyone the opportunity to enjoy rewarding and fulfilling working lives.
At Michael Page that's a given. Not because it's good for business, not because it's the law, but because it's the decent and right thing to do.
Demonstrating a commitment to diversity
So, what do we do at Michael Page to promote diversity?
- Firstly, we have our own internal diversity policy which is communicated to all employees. It is co-ordinated by a Diversity Steering Committee, led at board level, which ensures on-going awareness training for management and personnel.
- Making judgements based on a candidate's individual merits is at the heart of our diversity policy. That is why we have introduced more competency-based procedures into our selection processes. These ensure any decisions are objective and based purely on personal merit.
- We participate in the Interbank Diversity Forum, a body set up by the top ten investment banks to promote and deliver policy and best practice on diversity issues. We then pass the policy on to careers officers in universities who can inform graduates who seek opportunities in banking.
- We strive to ensure that we offer our clients the most qualified candidates on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities and that those candidates are drawn from diverse backgrounds. We have a variety of methods to monitor and analyse numbers from specific target groups to ensure diversity is being actively encouraged.
- Through sponsorship of specific events we can get our message to the heart of individual communities and groups. Also, by working with organisations like Global Graduates and Race for Opportunity (Rf0) we advance ideas and explore issues on the diversity agenda.
- We advertise in a wide range of media, both online and offline.
