With access to the UK’s largest candidate database and expertise across 20 specialist sectors, we are committed to ensuring that people are at the heart of everything we do to ensure we fulfil our purpose: improving lives through work.
As Skills Link, we has a strong emphasis on corporate responsibility and a track record of social impact, philanthropy and sustainability. Our commitment to social impact is driven by our company purpose: ‘Improving lives through work’, and we have three pillars of social impact.
At Skills Link we value diversity, and are committed to having an inclusive culture across all areas of our business, where we can all feel safe to be ourselves at work.
We’re on a journey and proud to promote inclusion & diversity among clients, candidates and co-members. It’s the Skills Link’s policy to support people who hold protected characteristics (under the Equality Act 2010) both internally and externally. While legislation guides us, our motivation for positive change comes from a much simpler place – it’s the right, human thing to do.
We support our co-members in developing safe, organic networks to share knowledge, support each other, and drive inclusion at work. Positive change is led by our co-members, for our co-members. We invite our co-members to complete unconscious bias training and inclusive management e-learning. We also have modules on wellbeing, inclusion and mindfulness. On top of this, we work towards an annual strategy featuring the below:
We support the Race at Work Charter objectives, which empowers racial diversity in the workplace and commits to increasing ethnic diversity in leadership through inclusive mentoring, empowering and encouraging our co-members from ethnic minorities.
We put importance on providing co-members with accessibility benefits on our computer systems and delivering digital training to drive towards a disability friendly workplace. At Reed, we empower conversations around mental health across the business, reduce stereotypes and celebrate differences, supporting co-members to feel safe at work
At Skills Link we commit to raising awareness of differing perspectives and showcase some of Reed’s female leaders, also supported through our Women in Leadership Mentoring Programme. We support co-members in developing organic employee networks, to share knowledge, support one another and drive gender inclusion in the workplace.
We encourages allyship in the workplace, commit to deliver company-wide digital training to drive and celebrate LGBTQ+ inclusivity, whilst explaining injustices, stereotypes and discrimination faced by many within the community.