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Award Winners for Diversity
Award winners for diversity
Profusion has won its fair share of awards over nearly two decades in business. One award that is particularly special to us is our win for Recruiter of the Year at the inaugural Women in Finance Awards in 2017.
Profusion has won its fair share of awards over nearly two decades in business. In our early years we were twice listed in the Australian Financial Review’s Fast Starters Top 100 and we’ve been named Australia’s Healthiest Workplace by AIA Vitality twice. One award that is particularly special to us is our win for Recruiter of the Year at the inaugural Women in Finance Awards in 2017.
Profusion Co-founder and Managing Director Simone Mears explains why.
“When I first started recruiting in the Financial Services sector in the 1990s, the industry was entirely male dominated, both amongst recruiters and the talent they were considering. Female recruiters didn’t get the opportunity to work on placing candidates in the game-changing leadership roles.”
Then what happened?
Our knowledge of the market, our deep networks and our track record of providing pathways for outstanding women to secure leadership roles continues to make us the go-to for placing women in senior financial services roles.
""The world was very slowly changing and views on the value of diversity in the corporate sector was starting to gain recognition, but the GFC was a turning point. Post the GFC, there was a real recognition that there was a gender gap in organisations, and on boards and that it needed focused attention. As a result, there was, and continues to be a push to reach gender equality across the Financial Services landscape. Over the past 10 years I’ve seen a huge paradigm shift in the industry, leading to a genuine commitment to gender diversity. The results speak for themselves, companies with a better balance of male and female talent are typically also more profitable.
The number of female CEOs and board members in ASX 200 listed companies shows that there’s still a lot of work to do, but equally, the number of female CEOs in a key market sector like Superannuation shows how far we’ve come."
What role has Profusion played?
"We’ve been doing a lot of work with our clients for more than a decade to appoint women into senior roles. As a female leader in Financial Services recruitment, I am still regularly approached by organisations who want help to identify high performing female talent.
We relish this position and how it allows us to continue to influence the gender balance of our industry."
How did you feel about winning the award?
"The award was important for us because it acknowledged the work that we’ve done and that we continue to do.
I also felt profoundly recognised and seen for the contribution I’ve made when we won. I’ve worked incredibly hard for a long time and I’m really proud of the work that I do. And it’s not just about placing women, but about placing great people who happen to be women, about being proactive and removing historical barriers to women achieving their potential.
I’m really proud of how much work the industry has done and how far it’s come. And I’m proud to be part of that and to have been in a position to make a real contribution. To have that contribution recognised was awesome."
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