E.ON wins national award for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in its recruitment processes

By NaomiTroy Energy company E.ON has been awarded the ‘Best Diversity and Inclusion Recruitment Strategy Award' at the prestigious FIRM Awards in London.

This honour recognises companies who have shown exceptional creativity and innovation in the development and delivery of their diversity and inclusion recruitment strategy.

E.ON was commended for its' holistic approach to addressing diversity and inclusion across all areas of its business. By creating a strong link to the company's overall business strategy, E.ON has been able to deliver a consistent message, giving all applicants the confidence that their individual contribution as part for the whole workforce matters.

Dave Newborough, HR Director at E.ON, said "Our diversity and equality strategy underpins our business aim to become our customers' trusted energy partner. If we are to achieve this we need to ensure that our existing and future employees feel they are supported and treated fairly, and thus performing at their best.

"But we also know that everyone needs to do this while remaining true to themselves and the unique differences that mark us out as individuals can also bring us together as a stronger business. Our UK Board is fully committed to supporting and developing a culture that understands and values the many differences between our employees."

This award comes after E.ON successfully won the ‘Inclusive Recruitment' award from the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI), after demonstrating consistent support for a diverse workforce and promoting best practice in equality and inclusion in the workplace.

For more information about E.ON's approach to Diversity and Inclusion, visit eon-uk.com/careers

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Notes to editors:

• E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating electricity, retailing power and gas, developing gas storage and undertaking gas and oil exploration and production. It is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. E.ON employs around 12,000 people in the UK and more than 72,000 worldwide;


• In the UK, E.ON supplies power and gas to around five million domestic, small and medium-sized enterprise and industrial. E.ON also offers innovative energy services and technologies tailored to meet its customers' needs, and is helping customers become energy efficient by encouraging them to insulate their homes, moderate their energy usage and even generate their own power;


• E.ON is committed to improving the candidate experience and recruitment practices across the company and together with The Clear Company has implemented a best practice framework to enable this.


• E.ON has also joined forces with the DWP and leading UK employers to support the creation of an assessment and development programme called ClearAssured. Through this work, E.ON has demonstrated that it can attract more disabled applicants, and ensure that they have the best possible chance of being offered a job with the company.


• The FIRM was founded as a LinkedIn Group in December 2007, run by In-house recruiters for in-house recruiters. Their aim is to support, develop and inspire their members as well as working to ensure integrity and best practice through the in-house resourcing community. The award ceremony recognised several categories including Diversity and Inclusion, In-House recruiter of the Year, Recruitment Team of the year amongst others.

For more information contact:

Naomi Troy on 02476 180 523 or Naomi.troy@eon-uk.com