About Vaco🙋🏽♀️
Vaco Holdings is a leading provider of consulting, managed services and talent solutions. As a global professional services organization, Vaco Holdings is dedicated to supporting and transforming organizations in the core areas of accounting, finance, technology and digital. With a team of over 10,000, operating in more than 100 countries, Vaco Holdings provides business-critical services to a diverse and demanding client base through a distinct portfolio of brands: Vaco specializes in talent solutions, managed services and executive search; MorganFranklin Consulting specializes in finance, technology and business services; Pivot Point Consulting is a Best in KLAS healthcare IT consulting leader; Focus Search Partners specializes in retained and interim executive search services; and BUILT specializes in digital services focused on software, cloud, data and AI solutions. In addition to being named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for the past 17 years, Vaco was named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Remote Work in 2023.
Our Core Tenets✔️
Our values are simple. Rest assured, however, that when things aren’t so simple and when we are faced with unique challenges or difficult situations, our values are what provide clarity, simplicity and an unwavering path forward.
⭐️ Fix the problem, not the blame.
⭐️ Assume positive intent.
⭐️ Stay coachable.
⭐️ Be comfortable with healthy conflict.
⭐️ Be electable.
⭐️ Be proud to wear the jersey.
⭐️ Play ’til the whistle.
⭐️ Word hard, stay free.
⭐️ Stay team focused.
⭐️ Be entrepreneurial.
Our core values are what we’re made of. They inform our decisions and drive our interactions—with our clients, our candidates, our community and with each other.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Vaco🤝🏾
Vaco understands the significance of drawing the circle wider to broaden our perspective, to connect on a deeper level, and to be a force for positive change in our world. With thousands of Vaconians and clients around the globe, our vision is creating a company – and a world – that places diversity and inclusion at the heart of its culture.
Since inception, Vaco has fostered a culture where individuality is celebrated, differences are valued, and opportunity knows no bounds. Across Vaco’s family of brands, diversity, equity and inclusion are more than guiding principles. They are central to our continued growth and legacy. Our differences enrich us, while our shared values unite us.
As a leader in talent and consulting solutions, we are committed to promoting fairness in hiring and removing barriers to the professional and economic advancement of underserved communities. We believe that creating opportunity for one, creates opportunity for all and we bring the following seven inclusive mindsets to our internal and external interactions:
1. Start with representation
2. Strive for progress, not perfection
3. Replace judgement with curiosity
4. Think global; act local
5. Lean into the uncomfortable
6. Believe in abundance
7. Collaboration is key
Vaco’s leaders are focused on creating access and opportunity in three key areas:
1. Advancement: Helping our leaders be models of change and influence by driving diversity and unequivocal inclusion.
2. Promotion: Expanding our efforts to level the playing field and to encourage courageous and authentic discussions.
3. Integration: Empowering our spirit by integrating the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout Vaco.
Being agents of change means encompassing more voices and more people. Vaco is committed to four key values to transform the recruitment process.
1. Focus: Prioritizing attitudes over resumes to measure success
2. Fairness: Implementing measures to help mitigate biases in the hiring process
3. Reach: Expanding our networks to tap into more talent pools
4. Data: Measuring success and progress along the way
Vaco is committed to creating a culture that embraces differences, levels the playing field, and empowers everyone to listen, act, and promote social justice and unequivocal inclusion. Our Executive DEI Council is co-chaired by our Chief People Officer (Tracey Power) and our CEO (Brian Waller). In addition, our CEO signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ Pledge and sponsors and supports our focus on advancing diversity and inclusion.
We are proud to share that Vaco Holdings has been named to Newsweek’s first-ever ranking of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity-2023. Vaco Holdings scored four out of five stars among 1,000 companies grouped into 34 industries and six main sectors. The publication profiled the top companies that not only celebrate diversity but implement policies that cultivate an inclusive workplace and play key roles in carving out more sustainable and healthier workplaces of the future.
Our diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging programs include:
– Diverse sourcing strategies (our career site automatically posts all opportunities to DiversityJobs which, since the mid-1990s, has focused on uniting diversity-driven employers with people of color, women, veterans, older workers, individuals with disabilities and members of the LGBTQIA+ community)
– Inclusive hiring training
– EEO-1 and affirmative action planning
– Accountability measures for leadership
– Employee resource groups (ERGs)
– DEI and unconscious bias training
– Pay equity analysis
– Mutual Mentoring Program
– Celebrations, guest speakers and workshops to increase cultural awareness
– Listening circles to support underserved communities in crisis
Our internal and client-facing recruitment and talent management strategies are integrated as part of larger inclusion and diversity strategies. We strive to create a workforce which reflects the communities in which we and our clients operate, and to capitalize on the wide range of benefits that result from a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
We communicate diversity recruitment processes and operational results to key stakeholders via affirmative action plans and other key metrics. Focused on continuous improvement, we undertake process deep dives to understand potential challenges and best practices. Through inclusive design we ensure that these issues and opportunities are addressed via optimized job descriptions, ads, screening practices, standardized scorecards and interview questions, interview panels and feedback, and extension of offers.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives🌎
Through our evolving Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, we are committed to ensuring fairness in the workplace; encouraging expression and integration of diverse views and cultures; safeguarding the health, safety, dignity and well-being of all those we serve; and pursuing responsible and sustainable sourcing and operations.
Work at Vaco💼
Our people make all the difference. Always have, always will.
Vaco was founded by industry pioneers, whose expertise, dedication and tenacity has created both a safe haven and a beacon in talent solutions. People are drawn to Vaco initially for a variety of reasons, including our award-winning services and team, but they stay because of our collective humility, relatability and passion.
