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Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into your hiring with processes guided by data, market reality, and merit.
What You Can Expect
Diverse Talent Access
Reach underrepresented talent pools across roles, regions, and markets - without compromising on hiring quality.
Merit-Protected Hiring
Inclusive hiring frameworks that safeguard role-specific skills, experience, and role competency requirements.
Bias-Resistant Process
Structured sourcing, screening, and assessment methods that reduce bias while maintaining performance standards.
Hiring Manager Enablement
Clear, consistent frameworks that remove guesswork, reduce compliance risk, and empower confident, fair hiring decisions.
Measurable Hiring Parity
Track and improve pipeline diversity, funnel progression, and offer parity with actionable, performance-safe DEI metrics.
Data Driven DEI Strategy
DEI goals tailored to actual talent pool availability, defined per role, market, and seniority – aligning ambition with reality.
Are these CHALLENGES familiar to you?
Unrealistic DEI Targets
Hiring goals are set without alignment to actual talent pool availability by role, market, or geography - setting teams up to fail.
Erosion of Hiring Standards
The pressure to hit diversity numbers leads to quiet compromises on assessment rigor, skill requirements, and performance quality.
Hiring Manager Paralysis
Managers feel uncertain to make fair, defensible hiring decisions without risking mistakes or backlash.
Backlash and Attrition
Perceptions of unfairness or lowered standards create disengagement, silent exits, and undermine the culture DEI aims to build.
Hiring Roadblock:
DEI INITIATIVES - WHEN DO THEY MAKE SENSE
Stagnant talent pipelines
Your candidate pools lack diversity year after year, limiting access to qualified talent and constraining innovation and growth.
ESG Compliance Pressure
You need audit-ready hiring practices that deliver metrics for ESG commitments - without introducing performance or compliance risk.
Employer Brand Credibility Gaps
Your DEI commitments aren't reflected in the actual candidate experience, creating a trust deficit with talent and the market.
Global or Multi-Market Hiring
You recruit across borders where diversity definitions, legal frameworks, and talent pools differ, requiring a locally informed strategy.
Measure and Adjust
We implement clear metrics to track pipeline diversity, hiring parity, and new-hire performance, creating a cycle of continuous, data-driven improvement.
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Redesign Hiring Process
We rebuild your process with structured sourcing, skills-based assessments, and inclusive interview practices that widen access while protecting quality of hire.
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Audit Hiring Practices
We examine every stage of your hiring funnel - sourcing channels, screening criteria, and decision points - to identify bias risks and structural barriers.
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Diagnose Hiring Reality
We analyze role requirements, market-specific talent pools, and data to set realistic, achievable diversity and performance goals.
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HOW DEI INITIATIVES WORK
True inclusion is engineered into hiring mechanics, not imposed on outcomes. Our methodical approach ensures sustainable, defensible, and high-performing results.
The Serendi RPO Journey
Your Blueprint for Hiring Success
We transform the complex into the simple. Our proven, five-phase framework is designed for speed, quality, and seamless integration.
Phase 1: Strategic Discovery
We define your goals to build a winning hiring plan.
Phase 3: Targeted Talent Campaigns
We engage pre-vetted candidates using our local market expertise.
Phase 2: Data-Driven Intelligence
We arm you with market insights for smart, competitive workforce planning.
Phase 4: Rigorous Validation
We ensure every candidate is a perfect skill and culture match.
Phase 5: Flawless Execution
We handle offers and onboarding to guarantee a great candidate experience and higher retention.
Case Snapshot: IT Scale-Up
A global aerotech company partnered with Serendi to overcome critical hiring challenges: hard-to-fill roles, fragmented hiring processes across departments and rapid global expansion.
Roles Filled
1000+
Number of countries
25 / 4 continents
Timeline
3 years
Avg. Days to Present
13
Avg. Days to Fill
32
Avg. Cost of Hire
EUR 4000
FAQ
DEI initiatives in hiring are process improvements that widen access to qualified talent while maintaining consistent, merit-based standards. DEI hiring work focuses on job design, sourcing strategy, screening criteria, and structured assessment so candidates are evaluated fairly, without quotas, preferential selection, or lowered role requirements.
No. Our DEI approach improve fairness and access by redesigning hiring systems, not by enforcing representation outcomes. Quota-based hiring targets specific demographic numbers, which can distort selection decisions. DEI initiatives keep job requirements consistent and focus on widening talent reach, reducing bias points, and improving parity across the funnel.
Traditional DEI programs often focus on training or representation goals. Rather than running separate initiatives or enforcing representation targets, our approach embeds DEI directly into hiring mechanics, such as job design, sourcing strategy, and assessment structure, where decisions are actually made. This ensures fairness is built into how hiring works while keeping standards, accountability, and performance expectations intact
Yes. When designed correctly, DEI initiatives improve diversity and raise hiring standards. Broader sourcing, clearer role criteria, and structured assessments reduce noise and bias, leading to better talent evaluation. All candidates are assessed against the same requirements, which improves decision quality, performance consistency, and long-term hiring outcomes.
DEI initiatives work as an add-on by embedding fairness controls into an existing hiring model such as RPO, Talent Sourcing, or Early Careers. The add-on typically adjusts job design, sourcing mix, screening rules, interview structure, and reporting. Delivery remains inside the existing hiring workflow and systems.
DEI impact in hiring is measured using pipeline composition, funnel progression and drop-off patterns, offer acceptance parity, early retention signals, and post-hire performance signals. These metrics show where barriers exist in the process and whether changes improve fairness and outcomes. Metrics focus on process parity, not forced demographic targets.
The Serendi RPO Journey
We transform the complex into the simple. Our proven, five-phase framework is designed for speed, quality, and seamless integration.
Discover & Plan
We define needs and create a tailored recruitment strategy
Source & Engage
We source and engage candidates using our local market expertise
Select & Assess
We screen rigorously to ensure perfect skill and culture fit
Hire & Onboard
We handle offer management to ensure a great experience
Optimize & Report
We measure KPIs and improve process on the go