UK-headquartered business management software provider The Access Group, announced it has acquired Diversely, an inclusive hiring platform that transforms diversity for staffing firms globally through the power of data and analytics.

Financial details were not disclosed.

Diversely is a DE&I specific platform that enables businesses to deliver on an inclusive hiring experience through AI driven recruitment tools and deep data insights. Set up in 2020 by Helen McGuire and Hayley Bakker, Diversely has the ability to track eight elements of diversity.

Launched with a vision to level the playing field for candidates through the invention of inclusive recruitment tools and deep data insights, the platform has amassed a large industry following and been recognised with awards for innovation. Diversely enables staffing firms to remove bias helping them to win new business, stay compliant and attract a wider candidate pool whilst differentiating their brand from competitors.

Access Recruitment, a division of the Access Group, supports agencies from start-ups through to large enterprise players to operate and grow successfully with its recruitment operating system and integrated website, screening and pay and bill technology.

According to Access, the candidate application and selection process will be transformed with the coming together of Access Volcanic’s recruitment website platform and Diversely.

To facilitate a more equitable hiring process Volcanic’s accessible design, powerful job search, SEO and content management capabilities will be strengthened with Diversely’s inclusive recruitment technology allowing agencies to measure, track and improve diversity. The recruitment website platform will offer the tools to attract candidates and shortlist applications using a fully inclusive process, while reporting on DE&I and improving pipeline diversity for agencies across the globe. For Volcanic customers, the Diversely features will be fully embedded within Access Recruitment’s operating system, Vincere, as well as connecting with other CRMs to ensure a seamless candidate journey.

Christian Fleck, managing director of Access Recruitment, said, “Our acquisition of the award-winning Diversely suite enables our recruitment agency customers to address their clients’ DE&I needs like never before. DE&I is one of the mega-trends of our generation, and the power of Diversely’s data and analytics embedded in Access Recruitment’s Volcanic website and CRM platforms including Vincere will allow recruitment agencies to deliver an inclusive candidate journey, increase client satisfaction and win more business.” 

Helen McGuire, CEO and Co-founder of Diversely added, “The vision for a solution that struck at the heart of biases in hiring and to solve a lack of workplace diversity was first conceived over eight years ago.  Since coming together as co-founders in 2020, Hayley and I have worked relentlessly with our talented teams to create, educate on and grow an effective, efficient, data-driven way to ensure inclusive hiring practices are a part of day-to-day processes for recruitment organisations.”

“We could not be more thrilled about Diversely’s new home within The Access Group, which will ensure that our mission to have this next-generation technology in the hands of as many hiring professionals as possible is delivered at a speed and scale of which we could only have dreamed of three years ago,” McGuire said.

This latest acquisition follows on from the acquisitions in 2022 of Vincere, recruitment operating system, and FastTrack360, SaaS (software-as-a-service) pay and bill solution.