Hiring and Partnering Strategies that Encourage Diversity

Diversity in Recruitment

At Jones Lang LaSalle MENA (Middle East and North Africa), we embrace diversity by recruiting 30 different nationalities into the team.  Hailing from Columbia to Australia and from Norway to Zambia, our diverse team brings together a vast variety of educational, professional and cultural backgrounds, making the MENA team a truly multinational environment to work in.

We make a concerted effort to attract diverse candidates for job openings in the Americas. Specific tactics include:

·        Bringing our campus recruiting teams to minority colleges, including Howard University and the Atlanta University Center Consortium (Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and SpelmanCollege).

·        Partnering with organizations dedicated to increasing diversity in our industry, including The Posse Foundation, the Robert A. Toigo Foundation, the Real Estate Apprenticeship Program, the Real Estate Executive Council, the Executive Leadership Council and the Diversity Committee of the Chicago chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association.

·        Holding managers accountable for hiring diverse teams. Managers are encouraged to include a diversity objective in their annual performance agreements. Business unit leaders receive a report each quarter providing diversity metrics for their teams.

The Posse Foundation recruits and trains student leaders in public high schools to form multicultural teams known as “Posses”. The organization provides mentoring and career coaching to these students throughout their college careers.

We hosted two Posse Interns in the summer of 2007. One subsequently accepted a full-time job offer from the company and the other returned to work for us during the holiday season. We partnered with Posse again in 2008.

The Robert A. Toigo Foundation encourages minority students to consider finance careers. We hire Toigo Fellows as summer interns with the goal of offering them full-time positions within our company. We also sponsor the annual Toigo Gala event and attend the organization’s career fair for first year MBA students and new Fellows.