3 ways to go beyond showing the salary

Once you've made a commitment to showing the salary on all of your job ads, what else can you do to make your recruitment process as fair, inclusive and accessible as possible? Here are 3 ideas for you to consider (and they're all from organisations that are accredited We Show the Salary employers).

Sign up to pay the Living Wage

More than 16,000 employers in the UK have committed to pay the Living Wage, helping employees to achieve a decent standard of living and driving up standards to tackle in-work poverty. The Living Wage is independently calculated to reflect the real cost of living, and includes a specific hourly rate for London alongside one for the rest of the UK.

Choose task-based recruitment for entry-level roles

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Innovative recruitment businesses like Pollen are helping employers to access hidden entry-level talent by swapping traditional CVs and cover letters that rely on what people look like on paper (and can introduce bias into the screening process) for task-based recruitment processes that evaluate real skills and potential.

Pollen's founder Sophie O'Brien sums up how their approach makes the hiring process fairer for candidates, and better for businesses too: "CVs introduce bias, overlook potential, and lead to bad hiring decisions – costing time, money, and momentum. Pollen exists to fix that – making it easier to hire the right person, not just the most obvious."

Measure social mobility​

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The Social Mobility Employer Index helps you to measure social mobility within your organisation, and the effectiveness of the work you do to help young people overcome barriers they may face because of their socioeconomic background.

Participating organisations collect socioeconomic background data for their employees, which gives them solid information to plan and evaluate future activities to improve social mobility.