JENNY HINDE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE CLEAR COMPANY
Encouraging leaders to recruit inclusively
Organisations need to rethink their recruitment strategy in order to find and attract a more diverse selection of leaders, says Jenny Hinde, executive director at The Clear Company, a UK-based diversity and inclusion (D&I) firm specialising in inclusive recruitment and talent management insight, training and technology.
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ather than judging candidates by traditional standards or a conventional career journey, employers need to examine what skills and qualities they can bring to a role, she says.
“We work a lot with search firms who say they have
been asked to provide a diverse shortlist, while also being briefed that the candidate needs to have had 15-plus years’ experience in a specific sector or role,” she says. “Because of the historical context, those two things are often not compatible. “The challenge instead is to encourage leaders and organisations to step away from some of
those very
traditional approaches to recruitment, which continue to create barriers to candidates from different backgrounds.” In her varied career, Jenny has worked in the HR
departments of large corporates, advising on mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and major tenders, and always through a lens of diversity and inclusion. She has more than 20 years’ HR experience and before joining The Clear Company was HR director of Amey where she led a successful diversity and inclusion agenda in the construction and engineering sector for ten years. “I always had a great interest in equality and I remember
doing school projects around women's equality,” she says. She became women's officer at university and from early in her career was involved in projects bringing people on long-term absence back to work, and supporting those who had disabilities or caring responsibilities who wanted to return to the workplace. Her passion developed further around D&I and five
years ago she stepped out of the corporate HR world and became the leader of The Clear Company. “Now I am in a leadership role where I can be 100%
myself and genuinely lead in the way that I want to lead and that has been transformational,” she says. “In many ways, I wish that I'd made that leap much earlier on in my career.”
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