Veolia Nuclear Solutions

Industry: Nuclear

Locations: UK Wide

Business Background: Nuclear Industry/Technical Engineering

Service Description: Talent Advisor and Partner

Skills Areas: Highly experienced in technical engineering recruitment. Bespoke Client Management.

The Challenge

Many listed companies on the global stage have a remit of increasing gender diversity, particularly in engineering where, according to Engineering UK, women make up only 16.5% of all engineers. The completion of a gender pay gap reporting initiative by Veolia Nuclear Solutions (VNS) revealed an inadequate senior female representation, creating an urgent focus to rectify the inequality identified, and to reach a target of 50% female leaders. Recruit12 was engaged. Collaborating as talent advisor and partner, we recommended and deployed multiple initiatives.

The Solution

Publicising VNS’ diversity programme externally and attracting woman through a targeted engagement strategy to the passive female community, our successfully delivered diversity programme included:

• Inclusive language to promote a thriving and diverse work culture.
• Championing female internal mobility, providing application support and workshops to senior women already in the organisation.
• Generating referrals from female professionals – tracking diversity throughout a newly implemented referral programme monitoring submissions diversity.
• Evaluating pay parity between all members of teams for new hires.  Eliminating bias during attraction, selection and hiring through diversity training workshops to managers.
• One-to-one bespoke support sessions to aspiring female leaders.

The Results

Against a target of 50% we:

• Increased the percentage of females achieving interviews to 57%
• Drove female hiring to an average of 65%

Our recommendations focused on reaching a larger professional audience and internally, on female mobility and upskilling teams on inclusive recruiting, unconscious bias and reporting –ensuring diversity recruiting could be sustained in the future.

Client Testimonial

The Recruit 12 team worked with us not only to exceed our target, but supported us in cresting a plan to sustain our diversity hiring in the future

– Laura Youngman – HR Manager