Our People: Diversity & Inclusion Policy
The expertise of our people is what brings our clients to our door. Our success depends on hiring and retaining the brightest and most forward-thinking people with the ability to understand our clients’ objectives and accordingly, delivering a best-in-class recruitment strategy.
Learning & Development
By implementing training & development programmes at all levels, we aim to strengthen our skills from within. Providing our people with opportunities for both professional and personal development is at our core, enabling us to nurture talent at all points of the career path. Every person within our organisation has access to a training hub, delivering the opportunity for development to our workforce. Mentoring is a key part of our delivery, which provides our people with ‘on desk’ support.
Engagement
We follow up with participants of our courses to ensure course content is targeted at the right areas, and delivered in the right way in order to improve performance and development. Development needs are assessed as part of our appraisal process, ensuring we can deliver a tailored approach and acknowledging the variety of needs within our workforce. We use formal (appraisal) and informal methods to help us assess and act on satisfaction levels.
Inclusion & Diversity
Varying backgrounds and viewpoints are where creativity thrives and we encourage our people to challenge traditional thinking in order to constantly question and improve, both internally and through our engagement with clients. A diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success and we positively encourage an environment where merit shines through, and diversity is valued. We want all of our people to feel valued, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or disability.
Hayward Hawk Limited is committed to promoting the equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants. We aim to create and maintain a working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment and in which all decisions are based on merit. Hayward Hawk Limited does not tolerate discrimination, harassment or offensive behaviour of any kind. Our people are educated on our policy and ethos as part of their onboarding process.
We aim to ensure that no job applicant suffers discrimination because of any of the protected characteristics, such as race, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability, and our recruitment procedures are reviewed regularly to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Job selection criteria are regularly reviewed to ensure that they are relevant to the job and are not disproportionate.
