Our 'Attitude over age' programme is aimed specifically at recruiting older and younger people.
– We have appointed an 'Age Champion' - Debbie Jevans, our Director of Sport - to ensure the topic of age is addressed on the Diversity Board chaired by the Chief Executive, Paul Deighton.
– Older and younger people are members of LOCOG’s cross-functional Diversity Action Team, which also reports to the Diversity Board.
– LOCOG will work in partnership with The Age and Employment Network (TAEN), Employers Forum on Age (EFA), Job Centre Plus and other older people’s groups to actively seek older candidates. Together, we will host recruitment evenings for older people (as well as for the other diversity strands).
– We work with Connexions and the Prince’s Trust to engage younger people.
– We will work with our principal recruitment partner, Adecco, to benchmark recruitment agencies on the age of candidates to encourage greater diversity. LOCOG will also benchmark the internal functional areas on their hiring record.
– We will launch a 'buddy' system for our most experienced and younger employees to exchange ideas – matching the best of experience with the best of creativity.
– We will use the 'Age Aware' mark and the 'Age Positive' mark to demonstrate our commitment to being an employer of choice for all ages.
LOCOG's commitment to recruiting a workforce of all ages is also underpinned by the following initiatives:
