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There’s always a way!…..
02/12/2024
Times are challenging for both employers seeking new talent to fit their business and unemployed people looking for a role they can grow into a career and close their own social mobility gap.
The introduction of higher employers NI means careful consideration of who to employ and when.
For those looking to secure employment will there be less roles to apply for?
Will there still be a need to supply a cv? – difficult with gaps caused by life’s curve balls.
Will they get a response rather than a profound silence to their applications?
If they get an interview – how are they going to overcome their lack of confidence to showcase their hidden talent and potential?
For over 10 years, Growing Talent has been enabling and empowering both sides to break through those challenges.
Mark, on the current Growing Talent, shares his experience so far in the photo shown.
We ripped up the traditional recruitment ‘rule book’. No cv. No formal job interview. No assumptions.
Growing Talent puts employers and those seeking work on a level, ‘uncomfortable’ playing field.
At our in-person getting to know you event, employers have to stand and deliver a talk on their own journey to their role (no notes), give a clear insight into their company and role they are recruiting for. Whilst they go for a refreshment break, everyone else is put into small groups to devise an idea to improve London. Would you be able to do this after just 1 hour working with people you had not met before? The employers return and listen to the innovative ideas before networking together over juice and nibbles.
Each gets to know the other much more confidently than a cv or formal job interview would ever deliver. This makes the recruitment stage experience (slow dating and 1-2-1s) more fun and raises the confidence of all.
Sponsored by business (thanks Allen and Adam), there is no risk of ‘double funding’ enabling charities and community partners to collaborate with us without risk to their funding.
JobCentre Plus, led by David Steeds Rob Matthews (Anna) and their team across London support their customers on their Growing Talent journey.
We know Growing Talent works. We can prove it works.
Are you in?
Next programme opens mid-January 2025.
Rob Matthews (Anna)