CMiC’s Focus on Amplifying Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
A Overview of Our Business Practices to Promote DEI
The importance of adopting business practices to promote DEI is clear. These practices are essential to the long-term success of organizations — across all industries.
At CMiC, we continue to uphold our strong commitment to driving employee satisfaction and deepening employee engagement. To ensure continuous development, our leaders and key groups have put a strong focus on amplifying our DEI program and initiatives.
According to a recent article by Forbes, which focused on the future of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, organizations with higher ethnic representation perform 35% better.
In addition to that, firms with greater gender diversity demonstrate a 15% increase in company performance, relative to their counterparts.
Key Internal Groups and Inclusion-Focused Initiatives
In 2019, we established our key CSR committees, Social Purpose and Ready, Set, Build! We are currently in the process of building a DEI team. With our specific DEI-focused efforts, here are some key initiatives we participate in or support:
Construction Inclusion Week
With the goal of promoting and strengthening DEI in the construction industry, leaders from DPR, Gilbane, Turner Construction, Mortenson, McCarthy and Clark Construction Group created an organization called “Time for Change” in 2020. One of their first accomplishments was the establishment of Construction Inclusion Week (CIW), which took place in October, 2021.
Groundbreaking Women in Construction Conference (GWIC)
We made our debut at the Groundbreaking Women in Construction event in May 2022, where we hosted lunch round table discussions focused on Mentoring Women in Construction. Aligning with this year’s theme “Be Inspired – Feel Empowered – Get Connected,” Shirin Ali, Director of Marketing and Roxy Grigorescu, Account Executive, shared their experiences and insights on how they overcame challenges and became better allies for women.
To help celebrate this great event, we also put together an inspirational and thought-provoking video where female leaders at CMiC shared their views on gender issues and future trends within the construction industry.
International Women’s Day
To commemorate this special occasion, we asked 6 of our female changemakers to share what this day meant for them, which was captured in this informative and insightful video.
Key participants included:
Shirin Ali – Director, Marketing
Vera Rubisova – Vice President, Application Development
Melissa Afkari — Integrations Manager
Marjan Dehghani — QA Test Lead Analyst
Lorena Rogovsky — HR Generalist
Maheen Jafari — Product Manager, HCM
Our Workforce | Key Diversity Statistics
Here are some key trends and statistics that highlight the diversity that exists within our current employee base.
Steadily Increasing Female Representation:
Female representation in our employee base has grown by 16% in recent years:1
11% increase in the proportion of female employees (overall)
16% increase in the proportion of female programmers
14% increase in the proportion of leads/managers who are female
11% increase in the proportion of senior leadership members who are female
Two of the members of our Board of Directors are female, and an additional one as part of our Strategic Senior Leadership Team
Representation of Minority Groups:
68% of our employees fall into the visible minority group
17% of our employee base have been in Canada for less than 4 years
Current Job Openings
CMiC is always growing! We have open positions in many of our departments. We encourage you to explore available opportunities and to apply if you find a role that’s aligned with your experience, skills and interests. If you don’t find an opportunity that suits your interests, you can still submit your resume. We’ll be sure to get back to you if we think there’s a fit!