8 HA TCH CANADA OPERA TIONS CASE STUDY 2 Hatchs Gender Challenge Hatch is a global engineering consulting company providing services and technology to the metals energy infrastructure digital and investments market sectors for over 100 years The company employs a network of 9000 engineering and business professionals in over 150 countries around the world In Canada Hatch are involved in projects spanning every commodity in every province from Canada s newest diamond mine in the Northwest T erritories to expanding the world s largest potash mine in southern Saskatchewan W omen make up 26 of Hatch s global workforce Each year Hatch attends numerous postsecondary career fairs to engage with and fll student and graduate positions Hatch noticed that only 30 of these positions were occupied by women and made a conscious decision to examine potential barriers and remove them to ensure a genderbalanced labour supply is maintained Hatch Joins GEM W orks In 2016 Hatch implemented the GEM W orks training program and began evaluating its campus recruitment process They frst realized that a written policy for campus recruitment did not exist and that data was not being collected Without these processes in place it was impossible to know if they were reaching enough women on campus and which gender demographics were present at the fairs or approaching Hatch on campus They needed to fnd out if there were barriers that deterred women from applying for these positions The work being done collaboratively on this initiative is helping to expedite the institutional change necessar y thr ough changes in policies and pr ocedur es to impr ove gender equity acr oss the mining and minerals industr y in Canada and ar ound the world Emily Moor e Managing Dir ector Innovation