DAK Associates, Inc.

Sourcing Diversity Talent

As we know, almost all Financial Services companies today list Diversity as one of their chief goals or objectives. The big issue for many firms is not achieving Diversity, but maintaining Diversity on a consistent and on-going basis. As we evaluate the business, Diversity is achieved in one of two ways: the on-boarding of newly minted college graduates that you hope during the course of their maturation will fit into your firm from a skill-set and cultural standpoint. Clearly this process takes several years, and offers no guarantees of success. The other option is to engage a search firm to achieve Diversity as a matter of course on any number of search mandates that they may be handling, and/or a Diversity specialist firm that you may have hired to execute on a specific search, but may not understand the many nuances of the Financial Services industry.

Well, we've come up with a creative and proactive approach for sourcing Diversity talent. We call it Diversity Mapping. With Diversity Mapping, you would engage us to literally map over the various segments of Financial Services where our expertise, assessment skills, market intelligence, and relationships are at their highest. This includes Asset Management, Life/Annuity/Retirement, Private Wealth/Private Bank, Broker-Dealer, and Asset Servicing/Ancillary Services. DAK would then proceed to comb the segment of your choice to identify the Diversity professionals who we believe have the skill-set, pedigree, and the cultural fit that your firm would seek. Based on your specific criteria we will create a customized, password protected database that you would have access to, enabling you to tap into a pre-qualified Diversity pool of candidates who may fit any number of search mandates that you have within the organization.