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So You Want to Hire & Retain More Women?

  • Google for Startups Campus 4-5 Bonhill Street London, England, EC2A 4BX United Kingdom (map)

You’ve been told you need to hire and develop more women into leadership roles but how do you practically go about doing this?

Join our partner WORK180 over breakfast where three industry leaders will share their insights on how a holistic approach to attracting, hiring and developing women will ensure you build a sustainable pipeline of female talent and keep them!

WORK180 - Samantha Jordan - Attracting

  • How transparency builds credibility

  • Gender policies matter

  • Examples from the most progressive employers and success stories


Applied - Kate Glazebrook - Hiring

  • Hiring the best, with diversity in mind.

  • Tapping into untapped pools of talent means changing the way you make hiring decisions. (Moving away from the CV)

  • Diversity goes beyond your core team, it includes your investors, board members and partners

  • Data is changing the way business is done today, how to develop a data-driven approach recruitment process and moving away from old hiring metrics like time to hire and acceptance rate.

Mentorloop - Heidi Holmes - Engaging & Developing

  • How mentoring can support women across all stages of their career

  • The importance of educating influencers and leaders to embrace diversity

  • The mentoring flywheel - building a culture of mentoring to support D&I

  • Following the presentations, we will open up to audience Q&A.