Diversity at GHD Australia

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

Many programs to include everyone.

Very diverse

Excellent - gender targets (as with much of the consulting industry), but also LGBTI inclusion programs, programs for employment of First Peoples. Maternity leave for the primary carer regardless of gender, options for secondary careers.

GHD encourages diversity and makes a conscious effort to employee people from a diverse background. Including working with refugee and indigenous employment groups.

GHD endorses diversity awareness gender equality

Many good programs exist, including a reconciliation action plan and indigenous network, and a strong focus on female and LGBT inclusion

Recruitment is diverse. Celebrate multicultural day, International Women's Day, participate in Mo-vember. Also have an active and broadening reconciliation action plan.

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

They have diversity and inclusion teams which run events focusing on these issues. They promote discussion during morning tea focusing on particular issues which I found interesting. Issues included respect to women, indigenous issues, LGBT, modern slavery, etc.

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

Really good. great diversity across all aspects and teams.

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

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

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.

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.

Great programs and focus on diversity and inclusion

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.

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.

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

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

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

CareerTrackers Indigenous intern program.

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.

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.

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

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

Internship programs with CareerTrackers and CareerSeekers

Indigenous outreach

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

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.