Diversity at Santos

The company encourages females in the industry, however statistically, a 50-50 female preference has been implemented when hiring graduates over the last 5 years in order to enhance gender diversity within the company. This is in contrast to the geoscience and engineering university graduate pool which is generally 80% male dominated. This has generated some debate amongst university students in terms of gender referencing. However within the company, the result creates a diverse and positive working environment.

Employees appear to be quite diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity.

A genuine commitment to training and maintaining awareness and acceptance of acceptable workplace behaviour, discrimination is explicitly not tolerated

The company has made a commitment to diversity. In general the policy has been to hire 50% female graduates. Personally I'm unsure whether that results in getting the best graduates and if some good candidates miss out based on reverse discrimination? There is a very diverse workforce from around the world as oil and gas is such an international industry. Child care and maternity leave schemes are good and there is even some paternity leave available.

There are many incentives for women to become involved in the work place, including good packages for maternity leave. C

They actively employ at least 50% female graduates, and as a gay person myself, I feel very comfortable and confident within the company.

I know they try to hire a number of females in the graduate intake. There is also a super contribution for females on unpaid maternity leave (after the paid maternity leave period). Otherwise I'm not too sure as I haven't really looked into it yet.

Graduate hiring policy is very good with regards to equality, and high retention rate. Few women in upper management however hopefully this will change as graduates move their way through the ranks. Very good maternity leave policy.

I believe Santos has an equal ratio target when it comes to graduate recruitment, and aims to employ equal numbers of males and females. I see leaders of both genders - no bias is apparent in my observations.

I feel the company is very fair in this aspect.

Lack of diversity isn't an obvious issue. Some cultural differences and lack of female engineers working in the field sometimes make it feel awkward. Organisationally diversity is encouraged, and usually is well communicated.

Apprenticeships and internships offered to multiple groups

Scholarship programs based on academic merit through universities. A number of social programs and sponsorship aiming to assist disadvantaged people.

The company considers applicants from all the around the world and has does sponsor employees work visa's.