Enabling careers for all with Recite Me | National Careers Week

This year, in National Careers Week, there is a focus on careers guidance that helps young people who are leaving education. Why do you think this is a crucial topic to raise awareness of?
Why do you think it is important for companies to have an equality, diversity, and inclusion lead?
What is Morson’s approach to EDI?
Why was the Recite Me toolbar a good fit to help people throughout the candidate process?
Why do you think it is important that we amplify the noise of accessibility within the workplace on National Careers Week?

For National Careers week 2022, their ethos is all about empowering positive change through Careers Education. With National Careers Week well underway, our very own EDI Lead, Sam Price caught up with Recite Me to discuss career guidance for young people and how Recite Me technology and Morson Talent continue to work together to use tech to contribute to diversifying the workforce.

National Careers Week celebrates careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK each year. With its main aim to provide a focus for careers guidance to help support young people leaving education, it has never been more important for a diverse workplace for our future generations.

Enabling careers for all with Recite Me | National Careers Week

This year, in National Careers Week, there is a focus on careers guidance that helps young people who are leaving education. Why do you think this is a crucial topic to raise awareness of?

True ED&I has a real impact, not just on the lives of people from all walks of life, but in creating stronger cultures and broader empathy in workplaces across the country.

At Morson, we are committed to changing perceptions within business, championing women in engineering, and empowering young talent through mentorship. Not only does this open doors for young people that they otherwise may not have considered, but the earlier opportunities are presented to people, the more likely the industry is in achieving truly diverse workplaces in the future.

In fact, we’ve just partnered with Northern Power Women’s ‘PoWEr Up Collective’ which stands to shape the future and generations to come, through its accessible opportunities, the transformation of workplace cultures and increased opportunities for women. As part of the collective we’ll be connecting emerging talent with amazing role models from across the North and beyond, and this is a vital step in ensuring that this generation does not get left behind.

Why do you think it is important for companies to have an equality, diversity, and inclusion lead?

An ED&I lead can be the catalyst for broad operational delivery, a central point of focus to drive initiatives across the business as an ambassador for change. But more than that, they should instil the same passion and thinking throughout the business, a board or group of EDI and change ambassadors is just as essential to impact positive change.

What is Morson’s approach to EDI?

We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer that provides an inclusive environment to candidates, employees, and our clients alike. We believe that diversity of thought promotes innovation by bringing multiple perspectives to discussions and decisions. We are committed to improving the diversity of our company and building inclusive cultures every day.

Our partnerships allow us to impact real change, grow as an organisation, and impart knowledge to our internal and external networks. Our partnerships with the Northern Power Women, The Girls’ Network, Inclusively Tech, ReciteMe, and Equal Engineers, ensures that we have access to the latest ED&I thinking to help us support our clients and also help us to achieve our diversity action plan.

We believe the concept of ‘seeing is believing’ is extremely powerful. Our ‘Inclusive Role Models’ campaign showcases inspirational stories from people in industries hardest hit by imbalances. By providing relatable role models to take inspiration from, we hope to break down barriers and encourage a wider talent pool into the industry; whilst also providing a positive platform to inspire career transitioning between sectors.

As a global technical recruiter, we operate in sectors hardest hit by imbalances and we are dedicated to improving diversity within the industries we work. By educating our clients and providing an inclusive candidate journey, we are committed to improving the lives of our contractor base and our own employees.

We work hard to attract talent from untapped pools, and by harnessing the power of ReciteMe on our website, we are ensuring that there are no barriers in place to hold talented people back.

Why do you think it is important that we amplify the noise of accessibility within the workplace on National Careers Week?

National Careers Week provides a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people leaving education. It’s important for people at this stage of their lives who may have physical or learning difficulties to understand that their career doesn’t have to be defined by it and that there are a lot of options and tools out there to break down the barriers that they might believe exist.

We’re committed to providing opportunities for all and to enable this have used Recite Me’s accessibility toolbar on our website since 2018. The software has to date helped over 10,000 candidates navigate, find and apply for roles, through tools such as language translation, dyslexia supportive fonts, colour adjustments and text to speech.

To use the Recite Me toolbar click on the ‘eye’ next to the ‘Register Now’ button. If you are looking for a new opportunity search our latest jobs here.

Or, if you have talent challenges and want to find out more about enabling and attracting a diverse workforce get in touch with Sam directly, Sam.Price@morson.com.