Be the company you should be
Specialist diversity and inclusion solutions for financial services.
Innovation at every stage
Bruin is an award winning diversity and inclusion specialist. We provide a variety of services to ensure diversity and inclusion is front and centre at every stage of the recruitment process, from sourcing and hiring approaches to inclusive talent management.
Diverse Talent Sourcing
Bruin has developed a range of unique in-house techonology tools and initiatives to support our clients’ diversity objectives.
Our Gender Bias Decoder scans and reveals language bias in job descriptions to help our clients assess if it contains gendered language, which might discourage female candidates from applying to the role.
Our experienced consultants can provide detailed reports for roles we work by highlighting diversity ratios between CVs submitted, interviews, and placements.
Bruin can assist in the implementation of best practice Blind Recruitment Techniques, from anonymised CVs to blind hiring software.
Our proprietary PROBE Assessment Tool gauges candidate motivation against a number of D&I metrics to determine company culture fit.
Workshops & Training
Our training seminars are designed to assist clients overcome barriers to in talent management and design for diversity. Contact one of our team for more details.
Designed to assist diverse talent with techniques for career advancement, particularly at entry level as well as managers as mentors to their teams. Attendees will gain an understanding of key strategies and how to support diverse talent
Designed for internal progression and returning to the workplace after a career break. This session provides insight into how to prepare for the various stages of interview, including the importance of behavioural competencies and body language.
Designed for managers with hiring responsibility. Attendees will gain an insight into the impact unconscious bias can have on progression and recruitment, and learn practical strategies for managing subtle bias in the talent management process.
Designed in collaboration with InterInvest. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of the importance of LGBTQ+ allyship, the positive effect of an inclusive working environment, and how positive role models impact company culture.
Gender Diversity
Gender diversity in UK financial services has certainly seen improvements in recent years, with women now making up 43% of the workforce. However, there are vast imbalances in the types of roles women hold and levels of seniority.
Race & Ethnicity
The discomfort of discussing race in the workplace can cause avoidance to a point of stifling progress. Overcoming the complex barriers will require acknowledgment - and working through – the potential roadblocks.
LGBTQ+
Among LGBT+ people aged between 18 and 24, 58% say that they have hidden or disguised that they are LGBT+ at work in the past year, and almost one in five LGBT+ staff had been the target of negative comments or conduct from colleagues.
Social Mobility
Social mobility refers to the facility for movement from one social or economic position to another. Britain has some of the lowest social mobility in the developed world and the financial services sector is particularly reflective of this lack of equality.
Neurodiversity
It is estimated that 1 in 7 people in the UK have Neurodiverse conditions, however, organisations are often unaware of the proportion and needs of their Neurodiverse employees or the value that this talent pool can offer.
Mental Health
While it’s an inherently personal battle, the effects of mental illness aren’t limited to our personal lives. And in financial services, two out of three people have experienced mental health issues as a result of work, or where work was a related factor.
Media & Research
As well as our in-house thought leadership and research we are regularly approached for commentary in the national press including the FT, the Telegraph, CityAM, and the Evening Standard.
Events
Bruin regularly hosts diversity focused events providing an opportunity for clients to network with peers, share best practice, and gain industry specific thought-leadership from expert speakers.
Consulting Services
We have provided guidelines for both clients and industry bodies, covering strategic talent pipelining, meeting reporting obligations and best practice for inclusion frameworks.
Our D&I Partners
Collaborating with trusted organisations to drive meaningful change.
UpReach
UpReach is a charity working to improve social mobility in the UK. Bruin provides CV workshops, interview training and mentoring.
Inclusion in Finance
Inclusion in Finance is an industry led initative to increase diversity in financial services. Bruin is represented on multiple workstreams.
InterInvest
InterInvest is an industry initiative launched to drive LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion in the investment industry of which Bruin are founding partners.
Mission Include
Mission Include is a multi-focused inclusion and diversity programme. Bruin are participants in their cross sector mentoring scheme.
1000 Black Interns
Bruin are supporting the #10000BlackInterns programme, designed to help transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the UK.
Progress Together
Progress Together is a Government Commissioned taskforce, led by the City of London Corporation, to drive Socio-Economic Diversity at Senior Level across UK Financial Services.
BWAM
BWAM's mission is to champion the positive impact of the talented black women who work in asset management and provide the tools that will enable them to thrive.
GAIN
GAIN is committeed to championing neurodiversity through an industry-wide initative, to positively impact lives and improve worksplaces for all.
“Bruin are known for doing things differently which is evident in their approach to diversity; they consistently provide us with balanced, diverse shortlists of top candidates in a competitive market. Their consultants also use creative ‘out of the box’ thinking to offer unique solutions to our requirements and understand the importance of our culture. They stand out for the work they do as a recruitment firm, as well as the additional ‘value add’ pieces that they are so widely recognised for.”
Talent Acquisition/Resourcing Business Partner
Legal & General Investment Management
“To be the very best at what you do, requires the very best people. By following this ethos, Bruin has achieved something exceptional in the financial services sector and in turn allows them to offer a unique proposition to their clients and candidates. Bruin is a fantastic example of the tangible benefits of diversity and equality in the workplace, integrated into everyday business”.
Arun Batra, OBE
CEO | The NES (National Equality Standard)
“Bruin have the determination, drive, networks and collaborative spirit needed to create impact at scale and they are creating this broader impact through not just participating in D&I initiatives themselves, but through championing, signposting and sharing what is working for them to their networks, and recruiting organisations to take part in tangible deliverables for their inclusion strategies.”
Liz Dimmock, MBE
CEO | Moving Ahead
Industry & Social Enterprise Initiatives
Bruin has committed to a number of industry initiatives and many of our employees are also pivotal members of external diversity and inclusion organisations, volunteering their time, expertise and providing mentoring.
Bruin Gender Bias Decoder
Unconsciously, we all use language that is subtly ‘gender-coded’.
Society has certain expectations of male and female characteristics which can often seep into the language we use, and how we respond to that language, without us even realising. This linguistic gender-coding can also impact the recruitment process, and research has shown that this unconscious bias can put women off applying for jobs that list traits with masculine-coded language.
This tool is designed to check whether a job description has the kind of subtle linguistic gender-coding that has this discouraging effect.
Enter your text below to evaluate its potential bias and click here to find out more about how this tool works.
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Of course, there are plenty of other factors that affect the diversity of applicants for this role, and of the people who end up being hired. These include the company's reputation for inclusiveness, its culture, and the behaviour and prejudices (both conscious and unconscious) of the interviewers.
