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The House of Commons - Recruitment of the Speaker's Counsel 

We had the honour and privilege to work with John Bercow, Former Speaker of the House of Commons on the recruitment of the new Speaker's Counsel.

On this project, we worked exclusively with The House of Commons and The RT Hon, John Bercow in the recruitment of the Speaker's Counsel to head up their legal team. Historically, they struggled to attract diverse candidates and especially senior female talent to the role purely based on the brand and role preconceptions within the external market.

We worked in partnership with the House of Commons by using our unique and authentic approach in the recruitment of this critical role. Our final shortlist consisted of 5 strong candidates, 4 females and 1 male from the LGBT+ community. Of the 4 women shortlisted, 2 were from a BAME background.

We were able to utilise our vast network of diverse candidates for the role which helped to support the House of Commons in their initiative to be a more inclusive employer. We successfully hired a Senior Exec from a BAME background who took up this prestigious post.

Comic Relief - Recruitment of 4 Board of Trustees

It’s an exciting time at Comic Relief as they transition from the glorious years of the telethon to driving success in the modern, digital, global world. They are diversifying and will offer more ways for people to engage with their mission. Innovative thinking is at the heart and Comic Relief is looking for people who are dynamic and challenging to help shape the future and support the delivery of a refreshed focus for the organisation.

Most recently we have been working with Comic Relief on their Trustee recruitment for 4 Board of Trustee positions. Comic Relief approached us to support them on their campaign as they were keen to have a more diverse board of Trustees that is fully reflective of the population they support globally.

The brief was to help them to increase applicants from under represented backgrounds on their current board with a focus on ethnic minority and female applicants which were under represented on their current board. As an organisation, they had previously struggled to attract applicants from these backgrounds onto their board of Trustees for a number of different reasons.

We have been working collaboratively with Comic Relief using our unique network access to diverse applicant pool and to date we have managed to provide a shortlist of candidates for interview with 68% of the applicants from a diverse background which includes, BAME, LGBT+ and female representation.

NUS - Recruitment of 3 Senior Executive Roles – Director of Student Voice and Democracy, Director of Marketing and Communication, Director of Race Equity and Inclusion and Head of Marketing. We have also recruited 6 Trustees for the NUS Board Committee and continue to support them on becoming a more inclusive employer.

NUS are championing students to shape the future of education – and create a better world. Education is the defining factor in creating a fairer, more prosperous society, and students are the hope for the future of education. NUS are at the forefront of providing guidance and support to students’ unions at a local level, it lobbies and liaises with government and the third sector on national policy and planning law and it seeks to influence the debate around students and their contribution, economically and otherwise to towns and cities around the UK.

The student movement is diverse. NUS hope that by harnessing our diversity and working together they will ensure a transformative education that is accessible for all. BAME Recruitment is supporting them in diversifying their Senior Executive Leadership team and we have successfully hired 3 diverse candidates for 2 of their key position to the Board with one of the executive role being filled as a job share by 2 diverse candidates.