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About Us From our offices in London, New York, and Auckland, Society is becoming the executive search firm of choice for responsible businesses and purpose-driven organisations around the world. We work on a retained basis for a highly international client portfolio, including: • universities; • charities and INGOs; • schools and colleges; • social enterprises; • hospitality and leisure businesses; • retail and consumer goods firms; • public sector bodies. The recruitment sector has a reputation for being shallow and transactional: motivated solely by the bottom line. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Recruitment can be a positive, enabling force. We believe that by finding exceptional people for meaningful roles within good organisations, we can help to make the world a better place. We also care deeply about our own impact: • Society is a certified B Corporation. This means that every aspect of our business has been assessed against rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. • Each year we give at least 10% of our profits to our charity partner, The Society Foundation, in order to help potentially vulnerable people back into work. • We have publicly declared a Climate Emergency and committed ourselves to reaching Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 at the latest. To keep ourselves accountable, we publish an annual Impact Report and details of how the appointments we make fit within the framework of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): www.society-search.com/responsibility 02 Society | Joining our Research Team
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion As headhunters, we have both an historic opportunity and a moral obligation to build more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. We are proud of the fact that in 2021, 57% of our appointments were female, and 31% were from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background (although we appreciate how reductive the term ‘BAME’ is). Central to our approach is the use of data. We have created our own platform for conducting anonymous diversity monitoring, and we use this to build up a rich picture of where the strengths and weaknesses of our research practice lie within each team. In December 2021, we launched our Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit, the content of which is drawn from our collective experience and from extensive conversations with others committed to this agenda. It is a succinct compendium of practical actions that we consider with our clients, in order to refine and improve their recruitment approach, and it has been celebrated by clients and candidates alike. Society has been lucky enough to work with some of the leading champions of equality, including advising Stonewall on their CEO appointment. We were a founding signatory of the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Executive Search Firms, an initiative aimed at securing a higher number of female appointments at Board level. We have also sought to be a vocal and engaged ally in important discussions around movements such as Black Lives Matter, facilitating webinars on diversity in recruitment, and arranging firm-wide antiracism training for our team. 03 Society | Joining our Research Team
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