Holding the DiversIT Charter status at any level identifies the organisation as one which is supporting its female technical workforce or student cohort. For this reason, it is important that organisations re-certify to ensure that women seeking work in the organisation can trust that they will be supported equally and fairly during their tenure with the organisation. As the DiversIT Charter certification becomes trusted across Europe, women will seek it out when looking for employers or looking to do business with organisations. For this reason, it is important to ensure the quality mark that the DiversIT Charter accreditations confer. Charter certificate holders will be required to recertify every 5 years. If the deadline for recertification is missed, the Charter certificate will no longer be valid until the time of successful recertification.