QXi Blog 2024

Solving Employee Attraction & Retention Challenges with EVP

Written by Rachel Gallaher | Oct 1, 2025 1:16:03 PM

Why It’s Important to Prioritise Your People

We’ve always believed that the success of our brands Montash, Remobi, and Trillion, comes down to the people behind them. Each business has grown in its own way, but the common thread remains: when you back people to lead, they do extraordinary things.

That’s what an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is really about. It’s the day-to-day deal between a company and its people. When it’s strong, you don’t just attract good talent, you keep them, grow them, and they become your best advocates.

Many companies are only now recognising its importance with Deloitte’s 2025 Global Human Capital Trends showing 72% of organisations see EVP as critical, but only 39% are acting on it. 

The gap between what people want and what employers deliver is driving disengagement and attrition. This is one of the many reasons companies are scrambling to define it, polish it, and push it out to market. 

At QXi, our EVP is shaped around three values that show up daily in how our people build their own careers here.

What Our QXLife Looks Like


Here’s why people join QXi and why they stay:

  • Opportunity – clear paths from trainee to leadership, with real examples of consultants who have progressed into senior roles.

  • Growth – structured pathways, mentorship, and mobility that support long-term career development.

  • United – a collaborative culture where success is shared across the team, not competed for individually.

It’s an environment where recruiters can lead in their own way, whether as a market expert, an innovator creating something new, or a mentor shaping future talent. 

We call this intrapreneurship: the freedom, tools, and trust to own your career like it’s your own business.

 

 

One example is our approach to Learning and Development, led by Courtney Dias. She’s been given the freedom to build the department from the ground up. Alongside her role, Courtney is completing her CIPD qualification and applying that learning directly to her work, including QXi’s Mentorship Programme. 

Designed to bridge the gap between studying and leadership, it gives associates hands-on experience of mentoring and the confidence to step up as future leaders. What makes this possible is a culture of trust. 

Read more about Courtney's journey building L&D at QXi here.

What’s Important to Today’s Talent?

Today’s professionals are clear about what they value:

  1. Purpose – meaningful work and a clear connection to the bigger picture.
  2. Flexibility – autonomy in where, when, and how work gets done.
  3. Growth – visible pathways, mentorship, and upskilling opportunities.
  4. Wellbeing – cultures that protect balance and support mental health.
  5. Inclusion – workplaces where everyone feels they belong.

Why EVP Must Keep Evolving

What works today may not resonate tomorrow, which is why we keep our EVP alive through regular surveys, open forums, and feedback sessions that directly shape how we work.

 

“If we want to win in today’s talent landscape, we must move beyond transactional recruitment. It’s time to tell a compelling story and live up to it. That’s how we’ll attract the right people, and more importantly, keep them.”

You can see this in the way we back our people through change. When Charlotte Christensen relocated to Germany and later returned from maternity leave, QXi supported her with flexible working, a phased return, and the chance to keep growing her career remotely.

Today, she leads a team in Dresden while staying closely connected to our London culture. Learn more about her journey below.

 

 

The same trust and flexibility shaped Courtney’s journey in Learning and Development, where she built the function from the ground up.

Together, stories like Charlotte’s and Courtney’s show how our pillars of Opportunity, Growth, and United are lived every day in how our people grow and lead.

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