Recruiter Job Spotlight: Square

This week’s Recruiter Jobs Spotlight is on Square, a financial services and digital payments company.  Since its creation in 2009, Square has sold small card readers that connect to mobile devices. These readers allow businesses to charge customers for their services without equipment. Today, Square sells a variety of tools, from registers and chip readers to team management and site-building software.

The startup was established by co-founders Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, and it has expanded rapidly throughout the past twelve years. Square has offices in major US cities, from its San Francisco headquarters to its smaller New York office.

Square believes the economy is better when everyone has access. They have leveled the playing field for small businesses. They’re empowering the electrician to send invoices, setting up the food truck with a delivery option, helping the clothing boutique pay its employees, and giving the coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Square started to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their businesses.

Promoting Diversity

Square’s purpose is to empower, both inside and outside their walls. They understand that to build the best tools for the businesses that they support, they have to start with a workforce as diverse and empowered as their sellers and customers.

Square has implemented measures to ensure fairness in promotion and compensation:

• Fairness in promotions: The Human Resources team devised a Fair and Square checklist to identify potential biases when considering employees for promotion. This checklist is now used throughout the entire company during the promotion cycle.
• Fairness in compensation: Regarding compensation fairness, Square’s People Analytics team audits all compensation changes to assess pay equity across race, gender, and age groups.

Square offers a variety of  employee-run resource groups that promote universal inclusivity through networking, development opportunities, and social events:

Benefits and Perks