Hays, the world’s leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, announces the appointment of Yvonne Smyth as Group Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Director.
Yvonne, a qualified lawyer, began working for Hays in 2000 and is also the chair of Hays Leading Women - a fast growing and highly regarded membership group for experienced professional women.
Yvonne will assist and meet the demands of clients in achieving their goals relating to equality, diversity and inclusion. Yvonne’s new responsibilities will include coordinating Hays’ commitment to diversity and inclusion and will develop Hays’ expertise and recruitment consulting ability in the area of diversity and inclusion.
Group Human Resources Director, Robert Potter, had this to say on Yvonne’s appointment, “With the demand for talent and skills increasing, so much of our job now involves bringing deep insight and expertise to source candidates with the right talent and skills. To achieve this we have many recruitment tools available to us, and now, within our process we have an opportunity to demonstrate our knowledge and our understanding of the dynamics of diversity across all of our client and candidate engagements. Yvonne is the perfect person for this role and will ensure we continue to deliver expertise in diversity and inclusion as our role as expert recruiters.”
Yvonne said on her appointment “I am very much looking forward to this opportunity to assist our clients in achieving their goals and aims relating to equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as advising them on the formation of ED&I strategies. My experience at Hays, including my work with Hays Leading Women, together with my passion for equality and diversity, has well placed me to support candidates and clients to fulfil their potential.”
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Hays. The power of diversity at work.
At Hays, we’re passionate about placing people in a role where they can flourish and succeed. By valuing diversity, we’re better informed to find the right job to transform a person’s life and the right person to transform an organisation.
We know from experience that different outlooks and contrasting experiences lead directly to increased creativity and performance. In turn, these positively influence the achievement of an organisation’s ambition. Recognising and harnessing the dynamism of equal opportunity is an essential element of our leading expertise.
Enabling people and organisations to fulfil their potential. That’s the power of diversity at work.
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2015 the Group employed 9,023 staff operating from 240 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2015:
– the Group reported net fees of £764.2 million and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £164.1 million;
– the Group placed around 63,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 200,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 23% of Group net fees were generated in Asia Pacific, 41% in Continental Europe & RoW (CERoW) and 36% in the United Kingdom & Ireland;
– the temporary placement business represented 58% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 42% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA