Reputation | Should you get certification for your organisation?

Top Employers? Living Wage Foundation? B Corp? These days there are so many different certifications that employers can choose from and it can be difficult to select the right one.

And, you have people in roles in your firm anyway – right? Plus, whilst recruiting might be difficult, you always end up filling your empty roles. Would having an official seal of approval improve that since it’s only about showing off to improve your recruitment processes?

Well, yes and no. Getting certified can help your firm appeal to potential candidates but it’s also about instilling employees with a sense of pride about where they work as well as benchmarking your own work.

Andrew Stephenson, Group People Director of Lookers plc, explained that getting accreditation allowed them to ‘properly’ understand, and then communicate, how well they were doing as a firm.