From employer branding to consultancy; unconscious bias training to thought-provoking targeted marketing campaigns, there’s a lot we can do to help you connect with and retain diverse new talent.
Our events
Consulting & Training
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Inspiring inter-firm and bespoke events aimed at a certain demographic, empowering them to create meaningful connections with your company.
Our inter-firm events bring companies together to collaborate on overcoming industry-wide diversity and inclusion issues.
Through these events, we’ll help you attract and empower high-achieving students from lower socio-economic backgrounds; students with disabilities; students of BAME heritage; and students who identity as LGBTQ+. We manage all events from start to finish – including the application process – so all that’s left for you to do is turn up on the day and meet top student talent from exactly the group you want to reach.
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In a nutshell, our bespoke events are designed to match your needs.
We organise insight days, skills sessions and networking events for individual companies looking to attract a specific demographic. It’s seen us work with organisations spanning the public, private and third sectors, supporting their talent attraction needs from emerging talent to experienced hires. Recent examples include:
Accenture BAME Insight Day
We invited final-year BAME students with an interest in Accenture careers to attend an insight day at the firm’s London office. The event included a skills session, panel discussion and networking session, all designed to welcome students to working life at Accenture.
“Thank you so much for putting together the BAME insight event at Accenture. I found it to be both informative and stimulating. It was incredibly useful and a wonderful gateway through which I began to better understand the inner workings at Accenture!”
Student attendee - 2018
ING Women in Banking
We helped deliver this event to empower female-identifying final year students and current graduates. Our ambition was to encourage them to get into the banking sector and join ING.
It goes without saying that we’re passionate about inclusivity here at Diversity Solutions. And with our broad, in-depth expertise, we can support you with the whole recruitment process – from attraction and retention of new diverse talent to upskilling your teams.
Whatever the stage you’re at on your inclusion journey, it’s important to measure impact. We work with clients to provide insights and recommendations on their current policies and initiatives, as well as any supportive measures.
To attract and recruit diverse talent, having an inclusive culture is key. We’re talking about a culture where everyone values difference, and there’s a feeling of real belonging. Without this, all those people you’ve worked so hard to reach might not feel they’re truly being embraced – which could lead to them leaving your organisation.
That’s why we provide jargon-free training and workshops to help colleagues, managers and senior leaders create a culture that’s inclusive for everyone. Our courses include:
These courses, tailored to you and your industry, provide a great way to up-skill colleagues on diversity and inclusion. We can also create workshops that are unique to you, or adjust some of our existing training plans. Here’s just a taste of what we can cover:
Every company is unique and faces all sorts of different challenges. You might be having trouble attracting or retaining BAME talent. Or perhaps you need to review your recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities. Whatever it is, we’re here to help.
We’ll start by understanding your challenges and learning what matters to you, and then we’ll provide you with a no-strings consultation over a cup of coffee. If you’re happy, our next step is to come up with a bespoke solution for exactly what you need.
There’s so much we can learn from each other. That’s why we facilitate roundtable discussions on various topics to help our clients work more closely together in reaching and retaining diverse talent.
Providing diversity-focused marketing and communication services, from print to social media, student campaigns to employer branding.
As a communications agency, we’re well-versed in the best and most inclusive ways to engage and inspire your current workforce and potential employees. We’ll draw from tried and tested tools and platforms to tailor the solution so it meets your marketing needs, which might include:
We can help embed diversity among your current colleagues with every communication you make.
From global diversity brochures to event stands, our print work does wonders.
We can help you create a short-term and long-term strategy, not to mention brilliant content for diverse markets.
Whether it’s building an EVP from scratch or adapting an existing one, we’ll put diversity at its heart.
From career fairs to on campus experiences to lecture drop-ins, we’re well-versed in how to reach every student group.
Apprentices to experienced hires – our creative-led media and marketing will help you target and engage with the right people for the job.
Stafford Long’s in-house digital team lends its help to Diversity Solutions, creating sites, apps and digital tools for your needs.
Our in-house film crew makes it easy to create your own films and video content – keeping control of the process for brilliant results.
We’re proud to have worked with a huge range of clients over the years. We’ve delivered on multiple recruitment projects, and we’re always turning our hand to different sectors. Here’s who we’ve worked
Making that connection between diverse talent and brilliant employers is obviously what we aim for, but along the way, we pick up plenty of awards for our clients and for our team.
BEST DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY INITIATIVE
BEST DIVERSITY AWARD
BEST DIVERSITY AWARD
Students at our events right across the board are making meaningful connections with future employers just like you. They’re building strong relationships with participating businesses who reflect the same values they do. But don’t just take it from us:
of students had a positive impression of all participating firms
of students felt more knowledgeable about different roles and responsibilities
of students would recommend our events to friends or other students
of students felt more confident about applying for participating firms after attending our events