Our ability to deliver high quality and innovative products and solutions for our customers is only achievable through the talent, expertise, and dedication of our global team of over 25,000 employees. Our approach to talent attraction and development is centered on our commitment to ensuring we are continuously attracting the most qualified talent and then nurturing and cultivating their skills and leadership capabilities to support the global growth of our businesses.
Talent Attraction
We focus on attracting and recruiting skilled talent to meet the current and future needs of our global portfolio of businesses. We seek people who are proactive and dedicated and share our commitment to the pursuit of operational excellence. Our culture aims to empower our people to feel agency in their work and make thoughtful decisions that benefit our customers by leveraging our scale, tools, and expertise. We continue to make significant investments in talent attraction, including in the areas of digital applications, training through our Learning Management System, succession management and operational management, and recognize that the growth and development of our employees is essential for our continued success.
As part of our talent attraction strategy, we partner with universities to support internship programs and pursue academic collaborations. Collaboration with students and interns complements the expertise of our workforce and helps us identify early career talent.
Dover’s New Inclusion Goals Focus on Talent
This year, Dover has set new goals related to inclusion that directly align with our talent vision. We will establish a regular employee engagement survey with an inclusion index baseline by 2022 and regularly survey employees globally on inclusion and other employee experience topics. A focus on training, another key part of our talent strategy, will see 80% of leaders trained on inclusive leadership by 2023. Together these will help ensure that we can not only attract but better retain top talent by fostering an inclusive culture and listening to and addressing employee concerns.