**We’ve been looking forward to this day for months! Read our complete announcement below. We are thrilled to work closely with NAAAHR-NJ this year!**
Today marks the launch of a partnership between Clarity Recruiting, a boutique, woman-owned recruitment agency based in New York City, and the New Jersey chapter of the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources (NAAAHR New Jersey). Both organizations share a mutual mission of fostering diverse, equitable and inclusive environments within the professional organizations each work to build. This alliance was spurred after a Clarity Recruiting professional joined NAAAHR New Jersey as a member and shared her enthusiasm about her firm’s active and historical commitment to sourcing diverse talent for its clients. A closer connection between Clarity and the NAAAHR New Jersey Chapter then blossomed into deeper conversations between their leaders that highlighted shared goals and a vision for the future of work.
Both organizations share a mission to foster development of diverse, equitable and inclusive environments within the professional organizations each work to build. After several organized meetings during 2020, it became clear that a natural next step would be a strategic alignment of actions to support that mission. These actions have been built into a pilot program which includes but is not limited to: Sharing of Clarity’s network of career opportunities on the NAAAHR New Jersey website; Coordinated marketing and branding of Clarity and NAAAHR New Jersey’s vision for widespread education around eradication of bias in hiring; Communication of updates and resources to both networks in order to ultimately enhance racial equity in business operations, practices and processes.
The New Jersey chapter of NAAAHR supports the Association’s national mission of serving as a unique professional development and networking powerhouse for human resources practitioners of color and those who are aligned with those goals. NAAAHR New Jersey also partners with local and state universities, including Montclair State and Rutgers Universities, to educate students, particularly BIPOC students, on corporate practices and processes as they seek to begin or continue their career journeys. The Association has consistently been lauded by companies in the tri-state area who have shared updates on employment opportunities with NAAAHR members and supporters and gained access to strong talent.
Clarity recruits for the Nation’s best companies to work for. They are dedicated to ascribing actions to their values ーClarity, Humanity + Purposeー which includes providing its clients with access to top talent from diverse networks and pipelines. Clarity is dedicated to removing racial and identity biases from their recruitment practices and offering their clients diverse pools of candidates from their ever-expanding network. The firm strives to align with leaders and allies who support and believe in building better teams that are equitable and inclusive. This partnership with NAAAHR is representative of their ongoing commitment to taking action against discrimination in hiring, forging deep relationships across diverse sectors, and gaining access to new experts and educators that will benefit Clarity’s network at large.
NAAAHR New Jersey President, Vanessa Phipps, is energized by this opportunity and believes, “This alliance demonstrates what can happen when organizations employ solidarity of vision and a strategy of movement to grow together.” In related sentiment, Clarity Recruiting CEO, Moira Dorst shared, “This partnership is the next action-oriented step in Clarity’s Commitment to end discrimination in hiring while gaining access to an incredible pool of talent and resources. We look forward to working with NAAAHR-NJ closely.”.
