Professional DiverCity can help your company to attract and retain the best of available applicants from a diverse labour pool. We can train and develop your staff to ensure that they are able to maximise the potential of both for new and existing staff.   We can also coach your leadership team through the diversity change-management process.

The key to competitive success and enhanced economic performance lies not only in the quality, skills and knowledge of your people but also in the values they share and their ability to relate to each other.  Achieving a culture that lives and breathes the principles of diversity impacts on companies in a fundamental way.  It serves to facilitate communication and to encourage the recognition of individual talent. It also enhances responsiveness, flexibility and creativity - and this maximises business success

Support and training is made up of the following topics:

• Successful interviewing to support the growth of a diverse workforce
• Best practice in interviewing: competency based recruitment
• Recruiting the best of available talent regardless of background (includes age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, religion and belief, sexual orientation, spent convictions & gender).   Exploring assumptions and clarifying potential legal issues.
• Managing a diverse workforce to gain maximum attraction and retention of talent: making the most of your good reputation
• Recruiting from diverse communities - learn how to fish in bigger pools in candidate driven markets & positive action
• Preparing the ground for positive action & minimizing backlash
• Progression planning & diversity
• CSR -  raising your profile in non-traditional communities
• Disability awareness -  de-mystifying issues and handling concerns.
• Sexual orientation: awareness, handling issues sensitively and confidently and how it impacts on performance & retention of the best talent
• Successfully progressing women & minorities into senior management
• Recruiting senior people on the basis of your diversity credentials and skills: making the most reputation and of word of mouth marketing
• Work Life Balance - across all areas of diversity: retaining talent in the workplace