Diversity & Inclusion: What role can Executive Search play? Diversity Inclusion Survey Report | Page 16

04/ What would enable you to provide greater diversity in your longlists?* * respondents were able to select more than one answer Clients giving less weight to proven career experience, and more to relevant skills, competencies and capabilities (70%) Clients being more open to candidates from a different industry sector (65%) Access to more diverse candidates (46%) Clients being more open to candidates from other geographical regions (39%) Technology that allows us to capture key diversity metrics (38%) Technology that allows us to report on key diversity metrics (30%) Clients allowing more time for the search process (30%) Findings show that clients’ narrow selection criteria impacts on search firms’ ability to present greater diversity in longlists. 70% of respondents said that they could provide greater diversity if clients gave less weight to proven career experience and more weight to competencies. Similarly, 65% noted that an openness to candidates from different industry sectors would ease the process. www.invenias.com | [email protected] / 16