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Shoshana Davidson, Tim Hardy, Reny Kiryakova, Miller Piggott, Nilufer Rahim, Jelka Stojanov, Giulia Tagliaferri

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Kier Group

What works for recruitment and retention  · 

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Kier Group
Employer partner

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About Kier Group

Kier Group is a leading infrastructure and construction group, with 10,000 colleagues across the UK, including hundreds of young people in early career roles.

Working with Youth Futures

Kier Group is helping build the evidence on what works in the recruitment and retention of young people.

By working with us, Kier not only gains insights to strengthen their practice and support the future of their workforce, but helps create evidence that can be used by employers across the country, so more young people can access and thrive within employment.

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Behavioural Insights Team

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Behavioural Insights Team
Evaluation panel, Research & evaluation partner

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About

BIT (Behavioural Insights Team) is a global research and innovation consultancy which uses a deep understanding of human behaviour to improve people’s lives. Its work spans the full delivery lifecycle – insight, intervention, evaluation, and capacity building.

Working with Youth Futures

BIT collaborates with us on research and evaluation activity as a member of our evaluation panel.

Currently, it is conducting an evaluation of the demonstrator phase of our Building Futures programme.

Overview

In our What Works for Recruitment and Retention Programme, we’re building robust evidence that can support employers across the country to create fairer and more inclusive workplaces for young people. We’re doing this by testing promising interventions in real workplaces, and evaluating what actually works.

We partnered with the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), and Kier Group, a major UK employer, to conduct a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). This RCT examined the impact of two communication campaigns designed to increase employees’ disclosure of diversity characteristics.

This feasibility study, conducted by BIT, informed the subsequent evaluation.

The feasibility study assessed whether conducting the RCT was feasible at Kier, and provided recommendations for the design of the proposed interventions (communication campaigns) and the evaluation (including an impact evaluation, implementation and process evaluation, and economic evaluation).

This report was followed by an extended feasibility study.

 

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