Testimonials
I recently had the pleasure of attending an Inclusive and Accessible Recruitment Workshop run by Cressida, and I have to say it was an eye-opening experience.
One of the things I found particularly valuable was the emphasis on understanding and addressing unconscious biases. The workshop provided a great deal of insight into how these biases can manifest in recruitment processes and how to mitigate them. I also appreciated the focus on creating accessible and inclusive recruitment materials, which will help to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to apply and succeed in the hiring process.
I left the workshop feeling more confident and equipped to make my recruitment efforts more inclusive and accessible. I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone in the recruitment field.
Cressida ran the workshop on inclusive recruitment strategies. The content was incredibly insightful and thoughtfully presented by Cressida who is a real authority on the subject. She clearly lives and breathes all that she teaches and matched valuable learning with real, honest and vulnerable sharing in the context of her own journey and experience. For any company considering embracing inclusion as a key tenet of their recruitment strategies (and every company should be!), Cressida would receive my full recommendation. Thank you Cressida and keep in touch.
Cressida was asked to headhunt 4 x architects for my EA team, building a team that reflected the institution’s core values. She knows the market well and understood exactly what I wanted for these roles. She has a good level of technical knowledge and only sent me a short list of diverse profiles that are first-class after she has spoken to them, making it an easy, quick, and efficient recruitment process. She has helped me secure strategic hires across Cloud, Data, and Connectivity at senior levels. She has been a great, reliable partner and understood our needs from the outset, working incredibly hard to deliver to our challenging timescales.
We had the wonderful Cressida Stephenson (she/her) as a guest speaker and a session filled with insights and practical concrete actions to make your recruitment processes more inclusive to gain access to an even greater talent pool.
Thank you so much for the great workshop!
Learning from you how to obtain Access to Disabled Talent was very revealing. The global team located across Germany, Australia, China, Switzerland and the US was fascinated with the simple and powerful messages that you delivered based on your firsthand experience of working with disabled talent and dealing with disability yourself. Many thanks for your openness, kindness and great sense of humour! It was a very meaningful learning experience for everyone involved.
Cressida helped us to recruit an excellent candidate for a senior IT leadership role. She came back within the agreed timeframes with a very strong diverse shortlist all of whom had the required skills, experience and matched our expectations in terms of package. Cressida supported us as a business throughout the process really well and ultimately we appointed one of her candidates from the shortlist. We wouldn’t hesitate to use Cressida again in future for expert search and selection of senior IT leadership roles!”
I had the pleasure of partnering with Cressida in a recent search for a new Senior Manager role in the UK. Cressida helped me understand the landscape of the market and guided me through the development of the job specification and associated salary benchmarks. She worked to the timelines I set and, to my delight, presented a diverse short list of candidates who were all highly credible and great fits for the role. The work she did in the background to identify and screen candidates was second to none – to the point where making a final decision was difficult as the final 3 candidates were so strong! In short – I thank Cressida for introducing my successful candidate to the Firm and I would 100% want to work with her again on future placements.