Project Management Corporate Social Responsibility
Create opportunities
Discover talents
Helping people succeed. Making businesses strong. Creating opportunities that change life for the better. We also pursue this aim with our “Helping for your tomorrow” programme. It bundles all charitable and voluntary commitments made by our company and our employees. Our target: Using “Helping for your tomorrow” to promote the employability of people who may not have the same opportunities as others. To empower them to master upcoming challenges. And to positively influence the working world of tomorrow – today, by creating sustainable structures that endure in a continuously evolving economic and social environment.
Taking social responsibility has always been part of the Hays DNA: We have always committed ourselves to corporate citizenship and to supporting non-profit projects.
Working together for more inclusion:
Hays receives the IOD ‘Inclusive Workplace’ award
Hays was honored with the prestigious IOD "Inclusive Workplace" award in Munich on July 3, 2025. The jury recognized our sustained commitment to greater equal opportunities and inclusion in the world of work.
7.9 million – that's how many people live with a severe disability in Germany, according to Statista. Yet only 48.4 percent of them are employed.
This is precisely where our corporate volunteering program, "Helping for your tomorrow," comes in. For example, through our partnership with the Austrian social enterprise myAbility, in whose talent program our employees participate. In one-on-one mentoring sessions, they share their expertise in career and vocational counseling and application training with young people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. At the same time, they offer them qualified support in their job search and orientation.
In 2024, Hays mentors supported 53 participants in the myAbility Talent Program. The impact assessment shows that after the program, the mentees feel better connected, know their strengths, and are more empowered to enter their professional future.
Hays wins HR Excellence Award
We received the HR Excellence Award 2023 in the Sustainability Management & Social Engagement category for our corporate volunteering programme Helping for your tomorrow.
Why? Because we deliberately approach our CSR commitment differently than many others. To pave the way into the world of work for people with fewer opportunities, we don't rely on the donation can, but on skills-based volunteering. And thus on what we do best: With the help of application days, mentoring, CV checks and coaching, we support disadvantaged people in finding their place in the world of work. This is how we create opportunities that change lives for the better. This is how we counteract the shortage of skilled labour. And last but not least, we give our employees a new sense of purpose in their work.
In building this bridge to a more equal working world, we do not act in isolation, but in close cooperation with our strategic partner organisations JOBLINGE, Haus des Stiftens, Queermentor and MyAbility - ensuring that we have a truly sustainable and profound social impact.
We feel very strongly about
equality of opportunity
In addition to monetary donations, we are therefore increasingly focusing on skills-based volunteering, an approach in which we, as an organization or as individuals, contribute our time and expertise to achieve a sustainable and profound social impact. Our employees, whom we release up to one day per year to volunteer, gain a new sense of their own abilities and the meaningfulness of their work by broadening their horizons.
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