Today we celebrate and raise awareness for a gender balance world! #IWD2019. Our article shares the inspirational interviews from our Women Mean Business articles!Friday 8th of March marks International Women’s day. A day dedicated to raising awareness and forging a gender balanced world. This year the theme is #BalanceforBetter. Balance drives a better working world. Let’s all help to create a better and inclusive world by supporting and celebrating the inspirational women who break stereotypes and champion equality in the world as well as the workplace.
As part of our ongoing #RecruitmentMeansDiversity initiative, we’ve interviewed many of these women; fantastic individuals who have some excellent advice, stories, and inspiration.
Considering the growing fight for talent in our industry and the increased emphasis on diversity within our businesses, The Recruitment Network is committed to looking at how the recruitment industry currently attracts, retains, and treats their female talent.
Read our series of interviews from these Inspirational Women from across the Recruitment Industry. As part of our Women Mean Business initiative, we want to shine a spotlight on women in business, so we have conducted a series of interviews with successful women in our industry, to hear from them about the challenges they face and what inspires them.
Women in Recruitment Mentoring Programme
At The Recruitment Network we have realised the importance of encouraging and empowering women in recruitment. We have launched a mentoring programme which brings together mentors and mentees to build up and equip women in recruitment with all the tools they need to succeed.
If you’d like to get involved in our mentoring programme as a mentee or a mentor then please click here.
Below we’ve shared a couple of the stories from individuals enrolled in our programme.
Name:Lauren CooperCompany: Square One Resources
Position: HR Director
- What made you sign up the TRN Women Mean Business Mentoring Programme?
I identified that for me to gain maximum exposure to a wealth of experience I could tap into this by entering the programme which would allow for more meaningful networking over a period of time.
- What’s been the value of having a mentor and the mentoring Programme?
I had a tough career decision to make and my mentor helped me see it from a different standpoint and helped me make the right decision in the end, deep down I knew it was, but I needed someone with the right experience to validate it for me.
- How has it helped?
Confidence levels, that as usual we sometimes are our own worst enemies and doubt that you are doing the best you can. I realised I also had something to offer my mentor
- What would you say to any woman considering taking on a mentoring programme?
I would say, why would you not? Embrace it and be open.
Name:Katie O’ClearyCompany: Boden Resource
Position: Business Support Manager
- What made you sign up the TRN Women Mean Business Mentoring Programme?
I currently work in the support function at Boden Resource and there isn’t anyone else that does my job, which includes internal recruitment, therefore I was really interested to speak with someone with the same experience as me and the career path they have taken and how they have got to where they are now.
- What’s been the value of having a mentor and the mentoring Programme?
What has been most valuable to me is speaking with someone who has followed a career path very similar to mine and to find out how they have done this.
- How has it helped?
As I mentioned before because there is no one else that does my job it’s really interesting to find out how someone in my role should be KPI’d and learning best practices. It is also nice to see what my future may look like if I work hard and see where I can get to in my career
- What would you say to any woman considering taking on a mentoring programme?
I say 100% do it, there is always someone out there that knows something you don’t, whether you take 1 thing or 100 things from it, it is 100% worth the scheme
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