Take a deeper dive into recruitment best practices for your London-based business and find toolkits, guides data, templates and more.
General guidance
- Greater London Authority's Inclusive Employer Toolkits: segmented for different sectors and size of business.
- Grow London's step-by-step guide to hiring success: from writing a standout job description to planning interviews and training your team.
- ACAS: various useful guides and templates on employment law and inclusion.
- OpenOrg: lots of guides aimed at tech scaleups looking to improve their culture and people processes.
- Oury Clark: mini-guides on important aspects of employment law.
Pay and compensation
- Ravio: Grow London client companies can access five free benchmarks based on thousands of data points from tech companies.
- Justly's free guide to salary benchmarking: this is a helpful step-by-step guide to building a compensation philosophy and carrying out salary benchmarking. There are also lots of free templates for all things pay and benefits, including a calculator for gender and ethnicity pay gaps.
- TalentUp: provides a range of salary benchmarking reports that are free to download with an email address.
- Living Wage Foundation: independently sets a voluntary minimum rate based on the cost of living. Companies can accredit as Living Wage employers.
- Gender Pay Gap Reporting: a legal requirement for scaleups with more than 250 people.
Data
- Grow London's data driven recruitment guide: covering how data can improve your recruitment strategy and the best metrics you should track.
- Greater London Authority's Workforce Data Equality Guide: a comprehensive guide on workforce data collection.
- Greater London Authority's Workforce Data for SMEs [PDF 127 KB]: covers unique workforce data challenges faced by small and medium enterprises.
- ACAS: offers an equality and diversity monitoring form template
- Sutton Trust guide [PDF 1.54 MB]: for collecting data on socio-economic background.
- Information Commissioners Office: important information on UKGDPR legislation.
Candidate sourcing
- Grow London's sourcing strategy guide: how to find and attract the best candidates.
Early careers
- CodeFirstGirls: offers a talent pool of early career technical talent.
- Tangent: access a community of early career sales talent from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
- 93% Club: promote your roles to a community of state-educated graduates and professionals.
- GoodWork: entry-level trained candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Upskilling
- Generation: bootcamp provider offering supported recruitment of diverse candidates in key disciplines including data and AI.
- Workwhile: supports SMEs to tap into apprenticeship levy underspend which can be used to fund training of new or existing staff across a range of disciplines.
- TechSwitch: hire trained software developers who join your team on placement before offer made.
Career changers
- TechVets: advertise roles to a community of military veterans with core tech skills such as cybersecurity.
- 55Redefined: job board marketplace for experienced candidates aged 50 and above.
Global talent
- TechNation: provides support for recruiting top tech talent from around the world to work in technology. Also has a job board for global AI and quantum talent.
- Talent Beyond Boundaries: recruit from a global community of skilled refugees.
Local talent
- Central London Forward: covers Camden, City of London, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.
- Local London: covers Barking, Bromley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
- West London Alliance: covers Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow.
- South London Partnership: covers Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton.
Professional communities and job boards
- Making Moves: community for London-based women working in tech sales.
- Women In Tech: community and jobs board for women in the sector.
- Diversity Job Network: has jobs boards aimed at different communities including LGBT Jobs, Neurodiversity Jobs, Disability Jobs and BME Jobs.
- ColorInTech: promote jobs to a large community of 60,000 early careers candidates and experienced professionals.
- Pink Jobs: free-to-post job board promoting equal opportunity.
- Women in Product: community of female product leaders.
- AEs of London: community of London-based account executives (AEs) working in Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Evenbreak: job board for disabled candidates.
Inclusive recruitment processes
Find templates and process guides you can use for your inclusive hiring strategy:
- Open Org's job ad template
- Grow London's guide on qualifying and shortlisting
- Grow London's interview process guide
- Grow London's candidate experience guide
- Grow London's offer stage optimisation guide
- Google's guide to structured interviewing
- Diversifying Group Learning Centre
- Workable's onboarding guide
- Harvard Business Review's guide to onboarding
- 24 onboarding survey questions
Accreditation and recognition
- Good Work Standard: a free accreditation programme that provides employers with a set of best practices, alongside information and resources to help achieve them.
- B-Corp: a standard to make business a force for good.
- Great Place to Work: a workplace culture ranking and certification with a library of resources.