De&i Archives

Take risks on International Women’s Day

By Ellie HeanueMarch 18, 2024September 17, 2024DE&I

Let me start by stating unequivocally that attitudes towards women at work have changed dramatically for the better over the last few decades. The days when women were routinely dismissed simply for…

International Women’s Day at Cedar

By Jade LucasMarch 8, 2023July 1, 2024DE&I

On International Women’s Day, it’s time to #Embraceequity Wednesday, 8th March, is International Women’s Day. This year, its emphasis is on equity, and specifically the need to understand the fundamental…

Black History Month and the Art of Black Hair

By Shenelle ThompsonAugust 30, 2022September 5, 2024DE&I

“I joined Cedar in 2012, having previously worked for a much smaller company. At the time I joined, I was the only Afro-Caribbean person in the business, although in the…

London Pride

By Cameron McBeanMay 31, 2022September 5, 2024DE&I

In June 1970, up to 20,000 people gathered for what was then called a Gay Liberation march in New York. Although the battle for gay rights in the USA can…

DE&I at Cedar – a work in progress

By Simon LythgoeApril 19, 2022September 5, 2024DE&I

If you read our previous blog, ‘The Long March to Equality’, examining the rise of DE&I within recruitment, you may have been surprised, as we were, at how far the…

The long march to equality

By Simon LythgoeApril 3, 2022September 5, 2024DE&I

The oldest person who works at Cedar can remember when airlines advertised for male pilots and female air-hostesses. In Northern Ireland at that time, recruitment consultants used to draw up…