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Struggling
to attract diverse talent for your early career roles?
Hey 👋🏽 we're DIVERSE, a careers network of over 10,000 black & ethnically diverse students, grads and young pros.
We partner with brands like Warner Bros Discovery, Adidas & Red Bull to help them meet and hire top talent.
(Book a 30-minute insight call with Tobi, our founder)
“I'm on a mission to help 500,000 underrepresented young people into employment.”
Tobi Ogundipe, Founder, DIVERSE.
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Our Diverse Careers Network
10k+
Black & ethnically diverse young professionals
40%
From low-income backgrounds
63%
Black
candidates
55%
Female
candidates
How we're pioneering
a new way to recruit:
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(Book a 30-minute insight call with Tobi, our founder)
Hire more diverse teams in just 3 steps
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We provide a dedicated Partner Manager to help you with your diversity attraction strategy.
We'll gather bespoke insights and feedback from your target audience through a candidate focus group.
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We add all of your early-career and junior roles to our job board for employers committed to DE&I, promote them to our network in our weekly newsletter and directly contact the top candidates.
We co-host careers events in your offices and online for you to meet and educate selected candidates. Next, we create employer branding videos to excite and provide insights to further potential applicants.
We've even partnered with Stormzy & Adidas...
Hear what our partners say
HR Coordinator, Wasserman Media Group
"It has been a joy to work alongside the team at DIVERSE. We quickly advertised our Internship and 30% of the applicants came from their community. We're delighted to have made 2 offers to candidates that came through DIVERSE. and we can't wait to have them join the Wasserman family!"
EMEA Campus Recruiter, AMEX
"Huge well done to you for referring some amazing people – they are literally amazing! Thank you for going above and beyond to help us with our recruitment goals."
Vice President of People, UNiDAYS
"We’re thrilled at the quality of candidates we’re finding through our partnership with DIVERSE!"
Recruitment Manager, Sanger Wellcome Institue
"Thank you for posting our Junior Software Developer roles – we managed to fill all 3 vacancies via DIVERSE."
Frequently Asked Questions
Our network consists of over 10,000 black and ethnically diverse students, graduates and young professionals many of whom are from low-income backgrounds looking for early-career roles, entry-level and junior roles with employers who are focused on and committed to diversity and inclusion.
The candidates in our network come from a wide range of degree backgrounds and are looking for roles across the UK. The most popular career interests are: Business, Finance, Marketing and Tech.
We regularly host careers events to help candidates in areas such as networking, CV and Cover Letter writing, interviews and Assessment Centres. On top of that our network helps to refer new members and we share lots of helpful content and resources on social media.
We provide impactful free careers education to our community of over 9000 UK young professionals, through events, courses, workshops and guides to equip them with the skills necessary to succeed.
All of our sessions and materials are delivered in our unique style by our experienced in-house careers team as well as external industry experts, in the tone of voice of our target audience.
Our job board and marketing channels help employers get through to a diverse community of young job seekers quickly. If you're struggling to attract diverse early talent, simply adding roles to a job role typically isn't enough. Once roles are live we pitch them to our audience in our weekly newsletter and directly contact the top candidates. We also host Meet The Employer events in our partner's offices for them to meet, inspire and educate interested candidates. Finally we create employer branding content to excite further applicants. Using these methods, we've helped major brands such as Warner Bros Discovery, Capital One, American Express and UNiDAYS significantly increase applicant pool diversity and hire talented individuals from our network.
Case Study: Attracting & Supporting diverse talent with UNiDAYS
"Wanted to let you know that I got the offer from UNiDAYS yesterday! Honestly don’t think I could have done it without your encouragement and advice so thank you."
Digital Marketing Assistant, UNiDAYS
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Background: UNiDAYS aimed for a gold standard in diversity and inclusion by attracting under-represented candidates and supporting their career growth, partnering with us to achieve these goals.
Collaboration: We advertised UNiDAYS' junior positions on our job board and promoted them in our newsletter to our diverse community. We also hosted series of online careers events.
Hiring Results: While other sources may have generated a higher number of applications, our candidates excelled in the application process resulting in all positions were being filled by 8 ethnic minority candidates from community, leading UNiDAYS to give us early access to future junior-level positions.
Mentorship Programme: We coordinated a three-month career mentorship programme, connecting nearly 100 young people with UNiDAYS employees for virtual mentoring.
Impact: This collaboration allowed UNiDAYS to positively impact the lives and careers of under-represented young people, providing them with valuable knowledge, skills, and connections. UNiDAYS also gained a diverse and talented workforce that enriches company culture and fosters innovation.
Case Study: Diversity in Tech with American Express
"Huge well done to you for referring some amazing people – they are literally amazing! Thank you for going above and beyond to help us with our recruitment goals."
EMEA Campus Recruiter, AMEX
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Background: American Express aimed to attract and hire more Black and ethnic minority junior candidates for their technology roles, partnering with DIVERSE. to reach this goal.
Collaboration: American Express advertised 10 roles on our job board, including Graduate Project Manager, Software Engineer, Technology Graduate, Customer Service Intern, and Technology Intern. We promoted these positions within our diverse community via email and SMS
Hiring Results: Our job board outperformed the conversion rate of other partners, resulting in 6 hires from a diverse mix of candidates, many from low-income backgrounds.
Impact: The DIVERSE-American Express collaboration demonstrates the effectiveness of targeted job advertising in attracting and hiring diverse candidates, particularly for technology roles which historically struggle with diversity.
Case Study: Increasing Black representation in Football with adidas & #Merky
“On the pitch, we do our thing. But off the pitch, it’s like we don’t exist. That’s all about to change.”
Stormzy
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Background: #Merky FC Football Careers is the first initiative from the collaboration between adidas and Stormzy, aimed at creating leadership opportunities in the football industry for the Black community. Adidas approached DIVERSE. due to our expertise in helping Black young professionals into employment.
Collaboration: We influenced the strategy of the programme and manage a community of Black candidates under 24, regularly providing them with career support via chat and virtual group sessions. We then created an innovative and inclusive recruitment process, filtered applications based on potential, and conducted first-round interviews before connecting them to roles in top football organisations.
Hiring Results: Our efforts successfully connected candidates with organisations such as Sky Sports, Manchester United, Fulham FC, GOAL, and LADbible.
Impact: The #Merky FC programme has helped to raise awareness for this issue, breakdown barriers, change perspectives and created valuable careers opportunities to young Black professionals.