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88 % of candidates named SHL ’ s client their # 1 choice after taking its immersive assessments

30 % of female engineers Bombardier was able to hire from a 20 % female applicant pool

“ This was a huge achievement for us last year . HCL has been doing that by providing us with people expertise and support through those changes . SHL moved to the cloud in 2019 and partnered with AWS to do that . And then in 2021 we were able to launch on a different cloud provider , which is a huge achievement to be able to say we can offer our platforms across different cloud providers .”
On top of this , HCL has also provided SHL with resource augmentation , ran end-to-end support on SHL ’ s platform and partnered with the company on strategic initiatives .
Nordcloud , an IBM company and European leader in cloud implementation , has been a partner of SHL since 2018 as the company matured its cloud operations . “ We grew together ,” says Brincat .
“ Nordcloud firstly partnered with us to move to the cloud successfully . Then it helped us with optimising that cost of operation and transforming what we have from a platform perspective to be much more cloud optimised . Thirdly , how we can bring that whole FinOps mindset into the operation of our platform .”
Promoting diversity , equity and inclusion from within It goes without saying that diversity is a top priority . With its technology improving diversity , equity and inclusion for its clients , SHL ensures this is reflected in its own operations . “ It ' s a hot topic and it ' s embedded at the highest levels . We have a number of communities . We call them together communities that we ' ve set up ,” explains Brincat .
These communities have different focuses in key areas : “ We have one around balance , which is looking at gender parity . We have one around origins , which is celebrating
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