Female Recruiting

Achieving Diversity Goals and Finding the Right Leaders

Diversity in organizations drives innovation and contributes significantly to business success. The challenge of finding qualified leaders increases the pressure to realize the full potential of the market. Yet, we see slow progress towards gender diversity. Women continue to be underrepresented, especially on senior levels. We are not moving fast enough on gender diversity, and it will not happen by itself. There is still a lot of potential. Diversity targets and quotas can help accelerate the process.

Companies can build a strong female talent pipeline or recruit women for leadership positions from outside the company. Both require a targeted approach to female candidates and a sustainable change in behaviour within the company.

Female Recruiting: Optimize the Process and Get Results Faster

Weibliche Hand hält ein schwarzes Fernglas auf einem gelben Hintergrund als Symbol für Female Recruiting

Targeting your external recruiting needs means modifying the recruiting process beyond the mere search process – from the first contact to the selection process thtough the contract signing.

With our Female Recruiting approach, we systematically increase the recruitment of female candidates. At its core is the standard recruiting process, which we flank with an adapted recruiting strategy and advice on the selection process. This enables a fast and successful recruitment process for female leaders.

Structured analysis, systematic staffing and sustainable change –

three levers for successful female recruiting

Analysis:

In-depth examination of the initial situation

Market analysis: What is the proportion of women in the industry and function? How do competitors recruit?

Internal recruiting process: Who conducts the interviews? How are the questions structured? Is there buy-in from the stakeholders?

Organizational analysis: How mature is the organization? What is realistic?

Recruiting:

Systematic adaptation of the recruiting process

Source: Source: In addition to all the possibilities of active sourcing, Searchery has an extensive network of women in leadership positions across industries and functional areas.

Touch: Carefully designed first point of contact with individual and personal initial contact and appealing role profiles

Select: Adaptation of the interview and selection process (team setup, wording, approach) and support for the decision-making process of the candidates through appreciative expectation management & bonding.

Hire: What are staffing scenarios? What does systematic onboarding look like for this?

Change:

Taking the change impact into account

Why: Changes in behaviour are required in the decision-making process, emotional reactions may occur.

How: Demonstrate commitment, act in close coordination with each other, and implement tailored communication measures and training to create awareness among those involved in the process and build expertise.

What: Get managers and employees involved from the start and form a coalition between the management team and the HR department. Define a set of meaningful KPIs and communicate them widely.

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Searchery Track Record in Female Recruiting

We have a strong track record of placing female leaders and advising companies on the targeted search, recruitment and development of female talents

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Frau steigt eine Treppe nach oben als Symbol für erfolgreiche Führung durch Frauen in Führungspositionen.

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We Support the Development and Advancement of Women in Leadership Positions.

Searchery is committed to a society in which everyone, regardless of gender, can contribute to economic success.

As founders of the business network “Female & Fierce Club” with over 180 female leaders and talents from various industries and functions, we are committed to promoting female careers. We support this through successful development programs on personal branding and career management.

We provide comprehensive advice on diversity topics, including diversity recruiting, DE&I strategies, programs & measures.