Promoting Diversity
The Business Case for Diversity is overwhelmingly clear. Corporations are making concerted efforts to diversify their workforce and senior leadership ranks in order to reflect the changing demographics of both the work place and their customer base. In order to meet these evolving business needs, organizations are requesting that their search partners include high caliber diversity candidates on each and every search.
However, often times the results are mixed. How can they reach this invisible pipeline of talent most effectively? The desire and need for an innovative search firm partner that operates at all levels and focuses on inclusion is a must and has never been greater. Halifax fulfills this need and we do it well. It is important to us as our organization reflects the value of diversity.
Dedicated To You
We have a commitment to diversity that runs through every aspect of our culture and search process and we have a significant track-record of success that proves our ability to deliver high-caliber, inclusive candidates on every short list for each and every search we conduct.
These are keys to our motivation and to our success.
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Integrity & Transparency
We have developed a reputation for integrity and transparency in our search process. This, coupled with our positioning as consultative subject-matter experts on topics related to senior-level diversity and inclusion, has broadened our network and brand-recognition among both our candidates and our clients.
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Diversity & Inclusion
We, ourselves, are diverse and drive diversity into every aspect of our business. Diversity and Inclusion is not only the right thing to do, it is the most profitable way to run most any business. And profit is a good thing. Diversity and Inclusion is not only the right thing to do, it is the most profitable way to run most any business. And profit is a good thing.
Our Success
We build leadership teams that yield Diversity, Purpose and Results.
Major corporations must diversify their senior ranks in order to penetrate new, emerging markets and gain a competitive edge, as well as encourage employee recruitment and retention.
Having developed a long-term, consultative relationship with our clients, Halifax goes beyond the traditional search process, to provide market data and feedback around a depth of diverse talent.
We understand that ability is the number one top priority, regardless of race, gender or any other defining characteristics.
We are successful in attracting senior level diversity candidates to our client organizations for a number of reasons.
We are personally committed to the advancement of diverse professionals in senior roles. We signal our commitment to supporting diversity on boards and in senior executive ranks, and our adherence to the EEOC standards, through our marketing activity and client discussions.
We realize the necessity of developing a well-focused and purposeful search practice with methodologies that can identify, approach and attract diversity candidates. We have the experience of reaching out to high-caliber and diverse executives. We also have the experience required to address the specific concerns that they may have when contemplating a career move.
Board succession planning
We support nomination committees in developing medium-term succession plans that identify the balance of experience and skills that they will need to recruit, over the next two to three years, to maximise board effectiveness.
Executive succession planning
We support nominations committees, CEOs and CHROs in developing clear, appropriate targets for enhancing diversity in senior executive roles and in developing plans to strengthen the pipeline of diverse candidates.
Diversity goals
When taking a specific requirement, we look at the overall board in the context of the business's agreed aspirational goals on gender balance and diversity more broadly, explore with our client if recruiting women and/or ethnically diverse individuals is a priority on this occasion.
Defining Requirements
We work to ensure that significant weight is given to relevant skills, underlying competencies and personal capabilities and not just proven career experience, in order to extend the pool of candidates beyond those with existing board roles or conventional corporate careers.
Longlists/Shortlists
When presenting longlists, we ensure that at least 30% of the candidates are women - and, if not, we explicitly justify why we are convinced that there are no other qualified female options, by demonstrating the scope and rigour of our research.
Candidate support
During the selection process, we provide appropriate support, in particular to first-time candidates, to prepare them for interviews and guide them through the process.
Supporting candidate selection
As clients evaluate candidates, we ensure that they continue to provide appropriate weight to intrinsic competencies and capabilities, supported by thorough referencing, rather than over-valuing certain kinds of experience.
Induction
We provide advice to our clients on best practice in induction and 'onboarding' processes, in addition to providing coaching services designed to help senior executive hires settle quickly into their roles and maximise their impact and contribution.
Embedding Best Practices
We signal our commitment to supporting diversity on boards and in senior executive ranks, and our adherence to Department of Labor, through our marketing activity, client discussions and by investing time in developing a relationship with our clients.
Signaling Commitment
As clients evaluate candidates, we ensure that they continue to provide appropriate weight to intrinsic competencies and capabilities, supported by thorough referencing, rather than over-valuing certain kinds of experience. As necessary, we advise clients on how to run their interview process to demonstrate the required rigor and professionalism and share best practices on how to reduce the impact of unconscious biases.
Broadening the Candidate Pool
We seek to broaden our own networks of potential candidates, leveraging as appropriate external lists produced by relevant organizations. We invest time in developing relationships with the pipeline of future female and ethnically diverse candidates.
Summary
Halifax Search Partners strives to help businesses obtain a world-class workforce that is diverse and inclusive in nature. We are passionate about helping our clients bring inclusion and workplace integration to the core of their organizations and expanding their global diversity footprint. As a diversity specialist, Halifax Search Partners focuses on assisting clients to engage a diverse pool of candidates to help cultivate a broad spectrum of talent across critical business functions utilizing analytics to minimize the probability of a bad hire. Whether it be working towards gender parity, engaging LGBT candidates, working with people with disabilities or growing the number of ethnic minorities in your business, Halifax Search Partners is the go-to destination for all D&I related recruitment.
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Professional Developments & Training
Halifax Search Partners provides a broad range of training services including unconscious bias trainings, which will vastly improve recruiting strategies by creating a more diverse applicant funnel in both internal and external recruiting processes. We suggest strategies to identify and counteract possible biases in the recruitment process and implement a robust Diversity plan that is proactive rather than a plan that reacts to workplace integration disruptions. These include de-biased job descriptions and blind screenings for the most effective reach out policies to ensure Diversity comes to the core of our client’s recruitment process, maximizing their reputation as an inclusive employer.02.
Diversity Analytics
Halifax Search Partners has a Diversity Analytics service that stems from a machine learning mechanism, this allows us to map the executive search market using unparalleled statistical modelling providing our clients with valuable data, which has been interpreted by our expert analysts. Our Diversity Analytics can provide predicted candidate trajectory within the organization, performance parameters and loyalty as well as advice on how some of these outcomes could be augmented using appropriate inclusion tactics. I have to add more text to this so make sure it is the same length as the counterpart. The text doesnt needs to make sense, because it just needs to hold the place, thats it.As part of our continued commitment to supporting diversity and equality in the workplace, both at board and senior management level, Halifax Search is commited to promote gender equality and diversity in the corporate work places by discovering the competent and qualified candidates for the job through our superior methodology.
Halifax Search offers Customized Tools To Help Companies Build Inclusive Workforce. Evidence-Based Diversity, Workshops And Trainings, Championing diversity to drive growth and success. No other search firm is as committed as Halifax to leveling the playing field. Workshops And Trainings, Championing diversity to drive growth and success. No other search firm is as committed as Halifax to leveling the playing field.
Halifax Search Partners represents a large pool of diversity experts who specialize in diversity audits, unconscious bias training, cultural due diligence and training internal recruiters on diversity among others. We also have specialists in HR predictive analytics, who interpret attrition statistics, loyalty and correlational analysis as well as forecasting future resignations in the business.
For over a decade Halifax has been providing specialized recruitment services to science, technical, engineering and mathematical sectors. Our consultants have specific hands-on experience in the industries in which they source, bringing the expert knowledge required to satisfy clients in niche industries. We provide Staffing solutions to: We provide staffing solutions to the following industries.
Aerospace
Automotive
Consumer Goods (CPG)
Pharmaceuticals
Chemicals
Construction
Science
Energy
Technology
