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Black Careers Matter Members Only

This report explores the issues that people from Black heritage backgrounds face during their early careers and makes recommendations on what employers can do to ensure that they are more inclusive and diverse. Non-members can request the executive summary by emailing

Social Mobility Toolkit Members Only

Here you will find the content the ISE Apprenticeships Working Group has been working hard on delivering in order to inform employers of the value of apprenticeships for their organisation.

Social Mobility Toolkit: Employers Quick Reference Guide Members Only

Tackling social mobility in your organisation will probably not be easy, daunting even. But you may already have some practices in place that are helping to address the issue. Here is checklist to help you understand where you are at now and what you need to work on next. Some steps require changes to processes and policies, others need cultural change led by senior stakeholders.

Social Mobility Toolkit: Strategy Members Only

How to build the business case, engage with stakeholders, source and analyse data and manage intersectionality.

ISE and Amberjack: Fairness in assessment and selection

With the recent release of the CIPD’s “Fair Selection: An Evidence Review” and emerging academic research on how candidates perceive fairness within a selection process, Amberjack have been delving into what this means for Assessment and Selection, particularly high volume, and early careers selection, and how organisations can act on the evidence.

ISE EDI Working Group: Equality or equity?

EDI has been a hot topic in the space of early careers recruitment for many years now. We are at different stages of understanding and implementing inclusive practices that achieve sustained progress in diversifying our workforce.

ISE EDI Working Group: Unlocking social mobility

Best Practice Insights from Experts and Students in Attraction, Engagement, and Assessment Find out what really works when it comes to impactful interventions and actions that improve social mobility in an organisation. Hear from a panel of employers and universities, providing case studies of best practice, from improving attraction and engagement to rethinking the assessment process and entry criteria.

ISE EDI webinar: Building the business case

Improving social mobility is high on the agenda of many ISE members, but what are the core issues behind this? What challenges do employers face when building the business case to get the business onboard? What indicators do they use and why? How are they proving value to their businesses?