Confirmed schedule for 2025 – London, UK
What type of roles do employers usually recruit for on Growing Talent?
Any role they can train in is the short answer! Examples of roles PREVIOUSLY filled include: Front of House, Warehouse, Hospitality, Project Manager, Mail, Reprographics, Distribution, Corporate Security, Hospitality, Recruitment and Administration.
Interested Employers:
Please contact jane@thejjc.net to learn more about this unique programme and potential fit with your business.
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Interested Applicants:
Please send an email to jane@thejjc.net to register your interest to take part in any of the confirmed programmes below. Note, Growing Talent is not a recruitment agency and does not run continuously.
To avoid disappointment, please ensure you have your Right To Work documents in place BEFORE you apply. This will help you meet employers’ vetting procedures.
Format of each Growing Talent Programme
Open for applications – period in which people can apply for Growing Talent. Send an e-mail to jane@thejjc.net, requesting the Zoom link, date of the virtual information session you wish to attend. Make sure you include your full name, work coach and/or local JobCentre Plus office you visit or the organisation that told you about Growing Talent.
Virtual information session – mandatory – held via Zoom. Learn employers and roles involved, format of the programme and benefits to you in taking part. If you are interested in progressing, details for the in-person event with employers be e-mailed to you.
In-Person getting to know employers event – mandatory – Gives applicants and employers a deeper insight and understanding of each other BEFORE the selection stage. The event is split into five parts:
- Managers share their personal journey to their current role, how applicants can impress them at the selection stage and hold a short Q&A. Managers leave.
- Discussion to explore why people aren’t working already – what’s missing?
- London Challenge – in small groups devise an idea to improve London – blue sky thinking
- Managers return for London Challenge presentations and feedback. Networking refreshments
- Decide whether you want to go forward. If so, you will collaborate with Growing Talent to complete your personal profile sheet ready for the next stage.
Employers slow dating style event – 1st stage selection – mandatory – meet all employers for 20 minutes in pairs building on the connection already made.
Employers 1-2-1 meetings – mandatory – if offered, this is the final selection stage where you and the employer decides if there is a fit with their role. You must be able to show your Right to Work documents at any 1-2-1.
Orientation and Holistic Week, CPD Certified – mandatory – if offered an opportunity which you accept, you will undergo robust training on work and life skills including a global qualification in mind health and wellbeing (I-Act) over four days in London and one day remotely undertaking the I-Act qualification. You will need access to a laptop/desktop to do this. Your work coach at JobCentre Plus can assist you with this if necessary. Accompanying manuals support onward learning. This builds your confidence before joining your new employer and team on site.
Talent Hub – CPD Certified – optional – a new introduction from September 2024. Two months membership encompassing weekly virtual sessions on work/life skills, coaching and mentoring, group discussions and problem solving guidance with any job opportunity you secure externally. In addition, any new role employers on Growing Talent may have after the selection stages are closed will be open to you. The personal photo profile sheet you compose in collaboration with Growing Talent can be used for any external job searching. The Talent Hub is open to anyone who was not selected by an employer for an opportunity or declined an opportunity offered. A key focus of this Talent Hub is to grow your confidence to secure a direct employment role yourself.
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Growing Talent 39 – completed
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Growing Talent 40 – current – closed for applications
17 March 2025 – open for applicants. Deadline for applications is 5pm on 1 April 2025
3 April 2025 – virtual Information session
7 April 2025 – In person getting to know employers event
14 April 2025 – 1st stage selection – employers slow dating style event
15 April – 1 May 2025 – final stage selection – employers’ 1-2-1 meetings
6 to 9 May inclusive – Orientation and Holistic week.
Monday 12 May 2025 – earliest four week paid mutual test drive with employers begins*
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20 May 2025 – open for applicants. Deadline for applications is 3pm on 1 June 2025
3 June 2025 – virtual Information session
9 June 2025 – In person getting to know employers event
16 June 2025 – 1st stage selection – employers slow dating style event
17-26 June 2025 – final stage selection – employers’ 1-2-1 meetings
30 June to 4 July 2025 – Orientation and Holistic week.
7 July 2025 – earliest four week paid mutual test drive with employers begins*
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8 September 2025 – open for applicants. Deadline for applications is 3pm on 22 September 2025
23 September 2025 – virtual Information session
29 September 2025 – In person getting to know employers event
6 October 2025 – 1st stage selection – employers slow dating style event
7-16 October – final stage selection – employers’ 1-2-1 meetings
20-24 October 2025 – Orientation and Holistic week.
27 October 2025 – earliest four week paid mutual test drive with employers begins*
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20 October 2025 – opens for applicants. Deadline for applications is 3pm on 4 November 2025
5 November 2025 – virtual Information session
10 November 2025 – In person getting to know employers event
17 November 2025 – 1st stage selection – employers slow dating style event
18-27 November – final stage selection – employers’ 1-2-1 meetings
1-5 December 2025 – Orientation and Holistic week.
8 December 2025 – earliest four week paid mutual test drive with employers begins*
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*Note the start date of the mutual paid test drive with the employer depends on completion of their vetting process and your ability to provide all Right to Work details and any other information they require to confirm your trackable history.
The standard four week duration of the mutual evaluation period with the employer can be extended, by agreement, depending on technical aspects of the role and personal performance.
Participation is neither automatic nor mandatory.
Growing Talent will only run when employers have jobs available
We reserve the right to cancel any programme at any time