Diversity Statement

Diversity is of paramount importance, we accept our responsibility to commit to diversity in every aspect of our work. This naturally applies to the recruitment services that we provide to our candidates and clients, however it is equally important that we fulfil our responsibilities to diversity both internally and in the wider community.

We ensure that our consultants are familiar and sympathetic to our equal opportunities. Managers monitor the conduct of individual consultants through routine supervision. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment.

We do not discriminate on any basis, including race, colour, sex, age, religion, natural origin, sexual orientation, disability or marital status. It is our intent and desire that equal employment opportunities will be provided in employment: recruitment, selection, compensation, promotion, demotion, redundancy and all other terms and conditions of employment. Only valid requirements for employment opportunities, which are in accordance with the principles of equal employment opportunity, shall be imposed. We consider applicants in terms of their skills and potential, regardless of their ethnic background, gender, or age.

We evaluate and recommend candidates strictly on the basis of their relevant skills and experience. We are scrupulous in ensuring that our consultants are fully aware of the legislation and we devote significant resources through our training department to ensure compliance. Our managerial supervision involves attending candidate interviews and monitoring consultant behaviour.It is our aim not only to adhere to equal opportunities, but to actively promote ethnic diversity within the workplace. Our assignment packs include an ethnic and disability diversity monitoring form and we compile results from these returns for analysis.

MobileGraduate  is committed to assisting individuals from all backgrounds to overcome both real and perceived barriers in fulfilling their career goals. We spend time with candidates throughout the registration and job application process, helping with interview preparation and confidence building.

Our consultants are highly skilled in analysing and identifying key competences which form the basis of the person specification. This approach produces a diverse candidate group in terms of background and many of our clients appreciate access to the broad knowledge, experience and outlook which is an inherent feature of competency defined recruitment.

Monitoring

MobileGraduate monitors the gender and ethnicity of its staff across all levels and roles within the company. We provide clients with the statistics needed to manage their own diversity policies and meet their own organisational aims.

MobileGraduate has always actively discouraged discrimination, in any shape or form, and operated according to stringent Equal Opportunities policies – both internally and in respect of our candidates.   We do monitor  the ethnic origin sex and age however this is to ensure that we are addressing the needs of our candidates and this information is purely optional.

Recent developments in Equal Opportunities law have led to a massive growth of interest in diversity. In response to this, we have been assessing its impact on recruitment practices from an agency, client and candidate perspective.

Initial research has shown us that many of our clients feel that it is important that we gather information on the gender, race, disability and age of our candidates. This data is never used as a basis to form a decision on an individual. It is only used to create anonymous aggregate statistics about our candidates. It allows us to assess internal practices to ensure that we are meeting our objectives of reaching a fully representative range of candidates.

We are aware that the collecting of this information is a sensitive issue and would welcome any.