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Leadership: Inclusive recruitment

3 mins read Management Leadership Careers
Individuals from diverse backgrounds offer employers a wealth of talent. Inclusive recruitment means not defining people by the challenges they face, but recognising the strengths they bring to a workplace.
Donna Lawson is assistant director – employability at Catch22
Donna Lawson is assistant director – employability at Catch22

Employers want to recruit people with the right skills, talent and experience every time. They also want people who fit into their existing team and organisational culture.

The danger is having a one-track mind about finding the “best” fit can lead to only opening doors to people who are familiar to us – those with experiences like our own and whose ideas or values we immediately align with. This risks creating an insular workforce and one that is more fragile and less able to adapt to change.

At Catch22 we get “hard-to-reach” individuals into sustainable careers. By addressing the long-term needs of employers, we find them a loyal, diverse cohort of recruits, and our young people find themselves on track to success, supported every step of the way.

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