To enhance the success of its internal diversity hiring efforts, a financial services provider partnered with Acara Solutions India to fill IT-related roles with one specific caveat: all job candidates had to be women returning to the workplace. Upon conclusion of the recruiting project, our team fulfilled our client’s request with maximum efficiency.
The client is a global leader in asset management, investment banking, technology, and operations. Some of the client’s responsibilities include:
While the client is globally headquartered in the United States, it has an office in India with more than 5,000 employees.
Acara started working with the client in 2011. Since then, Acara has closed more than 600 positions for the client, including direct placement, executive hiring, and more than 60 leadership positions.
An international financial company needed to fill many IT-related positions—but with a very specific caveat: all job candidates had to be women returning to the workforce after an absence of at least six months. Further, they needed to have excellent technical and communication skills, plus two to 19 years of experience in IT.
The limitations of the diversity hiring requirements made job recruitment difficult. Challenges included:
To meet the client’s very specific requirements, our team identified active profiles, regenerated active profiles, opened lines of communication, and reduced no-shows on interview day. Our objectives were to:
Our programme generated the following results:
Our team saw every challenge as an opportunity to share success. Ultimately, we provided high-quality candidates that fulfilled our client’s diversity hiring requirements with maximum efficiency.
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