Diversity at GHD Australia

This not important. People get employed based on their ability, and nothing else.

My company promotes LGBT equality and has a group in the company that supports this. There is also a focus on equality in the workplace and to achieve a high percentage of females in an engineering and architectural practice.

Company has policies in place to achieve strong diversity. There are people in the office from all over the world. As it is a STEM industry, it is still however male dominated.

I think we are an inclusive business, and certainly are trying harder

They are at the front in the industry in all of these areas

The commitment to diversity is really good, however not all actions have been implemented to reflect this. The company has support groups and diversity targets, however staff appears to be majority white males. The company hires a good percentage of females but these are not always in professional roles or senior/management roles. They have a program for providing work experience and employing refugees, a program for returning to work after time off (e.g. following maternity leave), they offer 3 months paternity leave, have a LBGTIQ group etc.

I can see there are lots of awareness programs with regards to diversity. I have not seen any racism/disrespect at my time at GHD.

There has been a focus on diversity and LGBT lately. No promotion of ethnic diversity.

GHD is a huge supporter of diversity and inclusion. All levels of management are vocal supporters of LGBT inclusion and support, indigenous employment and mental health awareness. I'm indigenous and have been put on the advisory committee for GHD's reconciliation action plan. GHD has a massive number of women in leadership and management roles to the extent that people joke about it being harder to be promoted as a man. Maternity leave and paternity leave are given to anyone having a child. Turnover rate is around the industry average for consulting companies with people leaving in search of better pay or different work.

Really good. great diversity across all aspects and teams.

GHD is very committed to increasing the diversity and inclusion within the company, and has measures and plans in place to address most if not all aspects of diversity.

Standard commitment to diversity training and whatnot. Could do more to change the older generations, but we all know they're too stubborn, and on the way out soon...

Great programs and focus on diversity and inclusion

A strong focus within the company to be inclusive in every way possible.

Company's gender balance is above industry average, and younger generations have OK gender balance and representation of minorities. Some negative attitudes do remain however. Women underrepresented in senior management. Company is typically quite flexible regarding maternity leave, childcare, etc.

Very diverse

Probably excessive focus on diversity and probably too politically motivated. Business plans of this nature should be motivated by the literature, psychology and evidence.

GHD endorses diversity awareness gender equality

Lots of diversity across the company, various training and recognition of diversity.

GHD have diversity goals, perhaps they are not ambitious enough, but I guess everything takes time.

CareerSeeker program to provide work experience/job opportunities to refugees. We have a Reconciliation Action Plan that looks at hiring Aboriginal Australians and using contractors that have a certain percentage of their employees who are Aboriginal. There is a career Trackers program that helps Aboriginal people get into the workforce and gain experience.

GHD has partnered with organisations, namely CareerSeekers, that provide career opportunities to those from less privileged backgrounds.

Internship programs with CareerTrackers and CareerSeekers

We have a great number of programs running. one of my favourite is one that offers jobs to migrants who aren't having their qualifications recognised by other companies. We offer a temporary position to see what they are capable off

Indigenous outreach

We work with the Career Seekers program which gives participants typically new migrants with work experience and potentially ongoing employment.

We do CareerSeeker and CareerTracker internships, and have a program for people re-entering the workforce

My office participates in the career seekers program. This program gets refugees and gives them opportunities to work and get experience in Australia. In my office we had a career seeker from Iran with over 30 years experience, however struggled to find work when he came to Australia (issues with overseas qualifications, etc.). GHD gave him a chance to get some experience with an internship which helped him get another job in the engineering industry in Australia. Very good program.

They are sponsors of several less privileged background programs where the intake interns to give them the opportunity

CareerTrackers Indigenous intern program.

Partake in Careertrackers and Career Seekers (internship programs for people from less privileged backgrounds).

GHD does a lot in this area e.g. Career Trackers and Career Seekers which aim to help indigenous people progress their careers and aim to help anyone who has been out of a professional job for a while back in the workplace.