Our commitment to Show the Salary

In 2021 Substrakt signed the Show The Salary pledge, an initiative that aims to tackle the issues of pay gaps and inequity in the charity sector.

Salary secrecy during recruitment processes is one of the basic enablers of the pay gap problem. So we’ve signed the pledge along with 280+ other organisations to show our ongoing commitment to progressing equity, diversity and inclusion in our company and our sector.

“For too long, recruitment practices have bred inequity and hindered diversity in the charity sector”, the campaign’s website says. “It’s time for change”.

We want to help bring this change about by making some straightforward commitments to the way we advertise our job vacancies. As the pledge encourages, this means that we:

1. Never ask candidates for their current/previous salary
2. Only include qualifications in the person specification if they’re truly essential for the role

We’ve also made a number of other changes to our recruitment process in recent years that has been designed to help us reach a more diverse range of potential candidates. These small but significant changes are helping us to address any potential issues of unconscious bias in the way candidates are assessed.

If you’d like to hear more about anything we’ve talked about here just get in touch, we’re always happy to have a chat.