Diversity

“Opportunity, inclusivity, individuality, creativity, excellence”

Berwick Partners understands the business, legal and moral case for excellence in diversity practice.  All too often, it is seen as the domain of the politically correct. But nothing could be further from the truth.

We at Berwick Partners believe that diversity is critical to the success of both our clients and ourselves. A breadth of talent, opinion, judgement and experience within any organisation enables it to challenge existing thinking and deliver creativity, innovation and competitive advantage.

Our commitment to diversity is at every level of our own organisation. We value diversity in ethnicity, gender, language, age, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, political persuasion, experience and education. We aim to ensure that employees are treated fairly, evaluated objectively and enabled to succeed. Our Diversity Working Group comprises of representatives from across the company at all levels. It works to drive forward our own diversity programme, to pursue leadership in the field of diversity and to exceed industry standards of best practice.

Our responsibility to our clients is to support them to make diversity a reality in their organisations. We are committed to ensuring that we provide our clients with choice and are continuing to find ways to improve the creativity with which we tackle assignments.

Our positive engagement with Diversity is fundamental to our thinking, our process and our delivery. These values are strengthened by the successes of our business and by the steps we continue to take towards achieving a model of continued best practice. We are embracing our role as an advocate of Diversity as a means of enriching our own organisation, and those with whom we work. We seek to verify our commitment with quantifiable evidence: we believe in action over words.

Where are we now?

Our thinking

  • We are committed to our Diversity Vision and believe that this must be translated into action and built into our business activities.

Our delivery

  • We have an established Diversity Council which has encouraged our Diversity policies to take root throughout the firm.
  • In addition to policy making, the Council develops strategies for communicating our plans and principles to all our colleagues. The council is both an open and interactive forum for debate and a mechanism for putting plans into action.
  • We continue to offer our staff guidance on current legislation and ensure our consultants and researchers have access to up to date information in regard to equal opportunities practice and legislation. Through our statutory obligations we believe we have the opportunity to think creatively and deliver innovative results.
  • We hold regular Diversity working lunches with guest speakers to debate current issues, progress our thinking on best practice and inspire and motivate colleagues.
  • We comment in the media on Diversity in leadership.

Our process

  • Diversity is integral to the mainstream recruitment process we undertake for our clients.
  • We build Diversity into the client briefing by offering guidance on current legislation and questioning existing practices; when agreeing the Job Description we provide advice on selection criteria to ensure objectivity; when agreeing advertisements we ensure accurate role representation and full compliance with legislation, and advise clients on the most appropriate media.
  • All candidates are treated with equal respect. When analysing candidate suitability we apply the best methods of assessment to guarantee fair and open competition, and provide advice to our clients on best practice to ensure unbiased interviews and selection procedures

Ongoing commitment

  • We have already embarked on an ongoing firm-wide exercise to gather data concerning our internal diversity profile.
  • We regularly analyse statistics regarding the candidates we present at short list and those who we place, guaranteeing absolute confidentiality.
  • We are continuing to build links and partnerships with organisations that engage in equality and minority issues.
  • We are members of Race for Opportunity and the Disability Employment Forum.

Our Philosophy

What we do is incredibly important. From a client perspective, recruiting new senior individuals is a business critical activity. The ability to attract and appoint the best people is integral to an organisation’s success. Therefore, the quality of your recruitment partnerships can be directly linked to performance.

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Corporate social responsibility

Here at Berwick Partners we take responsibility for the impact that our organisation makes on the environment, communities and our clients, employees and candidates.

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About Berwick Partners LLP

Senior recruitment is a highly competitive market. The quality of Berwick Partners’ people is the commodity that we trade in. Therefore attracting and retaining the very best recruitment professionals is critical to our success.

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