Sam Hurley, Operations Director, APSCo
In a market where candidate scarcity is still a major challenge for members and clients alike, this interactive workshop session will give you the confidence to explore less traditional candidate sources, drive diversity within your business, and enable growth.
Graham Mitchell, Business Psychologist, T2i
Graham will kick off this session with an overview of the personality characteristics to identify and evaluate when considering internal candidates from inherently different and diverse backgrounds.
The Bridge of Hope Careers team knows first-hand how soul-destroying it is to be unemployed.
They also know that hundreds of thousands of people are overlooked for employment because of their identity or history. That's wrong and an oversight, and during the Q&A Chance and James will be talking about people who can bring unparalleled grit and resilience, loyalty, creativity, and employability into your workplace.
Since launching the 'Reskilling the Recovery' campaign, LPC has pledged over £10m of unspent levy funds to support more than 250 small businesses across London and help young Londoners move into better-paid sustainable work through new apprenticeship opportunities. Come armed with questions for Suneal as to how best you can tap into an apprenticeship programme.
RISE UK is a charity that was launched in late 2018 and they have been providing life-changing opportunities for young people ever since. During 2022 we helped many young people aged 16-30 to secure jobs, apprenticeships, and work experience. This is a unique opportunity to learn how to get involved in a programme that helps managed the governance and day-to-day operations of the charity, drive culture change within the supporting company and place candidates FOC.
Q&A session for all focusing on the opportunities for growing your teams through these different streams. Please come armed with questions.
Senior business development and account manager, The London Progression Collaboration
Partner Support Manager, Bridge of Hope Careers
Chance was not born lucky. A childhood of physical and mental abuse was followed by the death of his sister to Cancer, and in his twenties, Chance had a mental breakdown which led to reckless behaviour and heavy use of drugs and alcohol. Before he knew it, his life had spiralled out of control, and he woke up one day in a prison cell, alone, with a lengthy term ahead of him.
Prison was more difficult than he could have imagined, but it turned out to be a transformative experience. He used the time to reflect on what got him there and how he could ensure he never went back. In prison, he finally recognised that he needed help – and got some – but he also discovered a capacity to significantly help others. In pursuit of a better life, he realised he could be more than good: he could be determined, resilient and remarkable.
After his release, and with the help of the employment charity, Resume Foundation, Chance started his own health and wellbeing brand, ‘Troothshop’. And, seeing his potential, the team behind Resume also employed him as the Partner Support Manager for Bridge Of Hope, where he now works with the talent portal’s charity partners to bring other marginalised but talented and resilient candidates into the workplace.
Global Public Policy Director, APSCo
Tania is the Global Public Policy Director. She is a solicitor who has worked exclusively in the professional staffing sector since 1999, joining APSCo in 2016.
As Head of Global Public Policy Tania represents our members’ interests in meetings and communications with Government departments, ministers, MPs and other interested stakeholders. She is responsible for APSCo’s public affairs activity on a global basis representing APSCo members’ views to governments and contributing to the debate on the future of the global professional labour market.
Director , Talent Rise
Andy Chaggar is Director of Talent RISE (UK), the charitable youth employment foundation of Talent International. Talent RISE helps to connect young people with barriers to employment to life changing career opportunities with future-facing employers. As part of his role Andy supports employers such as Fujitsu, Direct Line Group and Talent itself to identify and support diverse junior talent. Andy was originally a successful design engineer and changed careers after his involvement in the 2004 tsunami. He’s worked in the charity sector ever since, and with young people in the UK since 2017. Andy was the first member of his family to go to university and is passionate about helping young people to access the opportunities that were available to him.
Founder, Bridge of Hope Careers
James was born lucky: an idyllic childhood, the finest education money could buy and over two decades of upward career mobility. By 2008, James was an international executive with the world’s leading drinks company, and with his young family was living the ‘American Dream’. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, pretty much everything. After a combination of life’s curve balls, torrid unemployment, and undiagnosed bipolar disorder - leading to a spell in a psychiatric ward - James lost (almost) everything.
White, male and privileged, for the first time James experienced barriers to employment.
In 2018 Fellowes founded Bridge of Hope Careers the missing link between ‘untapped talent’ pools and inclusive employers seeking to diversify their talent pool.
In the first 18 months since launching the Bridge of Hope Careers inclusive talent portal, over 79,000 candidates have registered across the UK. These highly resilient candidates - many with ‘lived experience’ - are introduced and supported by over 130 charities - including The Prince’s Trust, Walking with the Wounded, Mencap, St Mungo’s and Centrepoint, and two dozen ‘Non-Russell Group’ universities.
A growing roster of 42 progressive employers are diversifying their own talent pools including Royal Mail, AB Foods, The Body Shop, Timpson, Santander, Cognizant, Direct Line, TalkTalk, and Royal Navy.
Business Psychologist, T2i
Graham, a qualified business psychologist and experienced people management professional, was formerly Director of People & Performance with a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Company.
Well versed in the 'mechanics' of workplace motivation one aspect of his work sees him operate at an organisation-wide level to help clients improve their overall performance and employee engagement. He is used to operating at Board level, and has experience of developing and implementing ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ people and performance initiatives, and knows how to align them to key organisational aims and core cultural values.
The majority of Graham's work, however, centres on 1-2-1 coaching and development assignments and running team effectiveness programmes, where his extensive experience has seen him work with individuals and groups at all levels up to and including Executive Board and Senior Leadership Teams. Whether through on-going coaching or development programmes, or short, ‘skill’ specific initiatives targeting areas such as mindset, motivation or resilience, he has a proven track record of enhancing personal and unit level performance.
A Principal Member of the Association for Business Psychology Graham holds a Masters in Organisational Psychology & Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is British Psychological Society registered Psychometric Test User and is familiar with a range of Personality, Leadership, Motivation and Specific Ability instruments. He is also trained in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching methods and how they can be applied to enhance individual performance levels.
Senior business development and account manager, The London Progression Collaboration
Stephen's role is to foster and cultivate new relationships with large employers based in London and to enable them to redeploy their unspent apprenticeship levy funds to meet demands from SME businesses, creating sustainable workforce development through new apprenticeships opportunities.
Before joining the IPPR, he worked as an independent consultant supporting a large FE College and private providers in the vocational skills space regarding partnership building. Previously he was head of international business development for NOCN Group, a UK based education and skills charity involved in awarding regulated vocational qualifications, compliance assessments.
Since 2016, Stephen has been supporting the BAME Apprenticeships Awards as a brand ambassador and member of the judging panel. More recently he has been collaborating with a London based social enterprise organisation, Generation Success, as a volunteer.