Equality, Diversity & CSR Policy
The Career Moves Group has a very strong commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility.
The key areas of the policy are:-
Educational/Social
- CMG personnel are working with the UK Career Academy Foundation on a programme run within a growing movement of schools and colleges throughout the UK, mainly in areas of social need
- Serving 16-19 year old business studies students
- Helping to raise aspirations and preparing them for a career in business
- 8 out of 10 Career Academy graduates progress to university or employment with higher level training
- Career Academies in schools are supported by the UK Career Academy Foundation – a national charity led by a number of blue chip corporates and media companies including MTV, Talkback Thames, ITV and Bloomberg
- Queens Part Community School based in London NW6 is one of the schools taking part. CMG is acting as a sponsor to the programme at this school and will be supporting the school in three ways:
- CMG will be involved in the interview process for the applicants to the scheme. They will be invited to come to our offices and attend a competency interview (for fairness). After 15 students are selected
- CMG will be running employability sessions once a month
- And CMG will be Mentors to the students throughout the length of the programme
- CMG also attends careers fairs and awareness events. Examples include BBC Media Fair, Westminster Careers Fair, Grimsby Institute of FE & HE and William Morris Agency Charity Day
This programme is looking to extend links between CMG as a corporate entity and local communities to help enhance a sense of being part of a greater community and to utilise professional knowledge and to enhance personal development of CMG employees.
Environmental
CMG takes all reasonable efforts to have a responsible impact on our local environment.
- Recycling of all printing cartridges
- Separate bins for recycling of paper, newspapers, Post-It notes, magazines, plastic bottles, plastic cups and cans
- To look at ways of reducing power consumption (energy saving lighting, movement sensors to turn off lighting, minimal use of air conditioning/ heating- also based on sensor mechanism)
- To encourage minimal use of paper and therefore create as little wastage as possible
- Policy to not send out paper Christmas cards
- Our new cleaners (2008) were taken on board for their green policy ie they only use environmentally friendly cleaning products etc
Charitable Fund Raising
- Each year CMG chooses a charity to support and looks to raise money through sponsorship and different events. This involves all employees once a year coming up with ideas.The current charity is Wateraid.
Diversity
- Career Moves Group is committed to working towards equality of opportunity – we are committed to eliminating bias in areas of selection and assessment directly or indirectly with regards to gender, ethnic background, disability, sexual orientation, religion and age and to represent job applicants fairly based on individual merit and ability
- To enable us to eliminate bias, our interviews are based on competency frameworks and this applies to internal applicants to CMG and externally when interviewing candidates for our clients
CMG is committed to promoting diversity both within our own workforce and amongst the organisations we recruit for - We are continuously looking for ways to reach diverse groups of potential employees and candidates through internal education by regular employment law updates to all employees and the application of our equal opportunities statement on all our website advertising
- Our diversity monitoring is kept completely up to date through our database and on request we supply diversity reports to the organisations we work with.