Managing and discovering exceptional talent

Discovering exceptional talent starts with us.
Our team. Your consultants.

Only through recruiting and developing a team that brings lived experience, understanding and knowledge from as many dimensions of difference as possible, can we truly support our clients in building the inclusive workplaces where diversity thrives.
We guide, advise and support our clients, working in partnership to remove barriers, open doors and extend networks to reach the very best exceptional talent, representative of all parts of society.

Discovering exceptional talent

Our seven step process

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1

Educate the team

Mandated, certified, external training for all employees.

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2

Inclusive job descriptions

Through inclusive terms and qualifiable and objective requirements.

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3

Identify diverse talent

Approach candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

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4

Screen and select candidates

Search criteria based only on the role’s core requirements.

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5

Behavioural interviews

Objective assessment of competencies, traits, drivers and experiences.

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6

Present finalists

Objective evaluations to help support an inclusive process.

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7

Hire and onboard

Leverage pay data to strip out bias and advise on an inclusive offer process.

Stats

Prioritizing inclusivity

  • 83%

    Diverse candidates

    The percentage of assignments where clients met with ethnically and/or gender diverse candidates.

  • 10+

    Partnerships

    The partnerships we enter into to advocate for, and advance, under-represented communities.

  • 4

    Inclusion priorities

    Our active sub-groups focus on driving an environment where everyone we work with has the ability to thrive.

Managing exceptional talent

Our people are truly exceptional and are what makes Leathwaite distinctive.

We have removed the barriers from our own recruitment and promotion processes in order to attract and retain the very best talent, valuing them for who they are, not just the skills and experience they bring.

We invest in developing our people to unleash their full potential, harnessing every part of what makes them individual, and giving them the freedom to grow.

Through our relationships with Microsoft, Google, Balance the Board, and Purple, to name just a few, we focus on giving them the experience and learning to flourish, building highly engaged and motivated teams.

Find out more about careers at Leathwaite.