Unlock exceptional talent faster with Skills and Learning

Empower your organisation to connect effortlessly with the best-in-class undiscovered talent.

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Hays Skills and Learning

Unlock exceptional talent faster with Skills and Learning

Empower your organisation to connect effortlessly with the best-in-class undiscovered talent.

Find out more

How Skills and Learning can help your organisation

Welcome to Skills and Learning. We’re in the business of solving employers’ skills shortages. We find, coach, mentor, and train undiscovered talent to meet your organisation’s specific needs, both in the short term and to support you in future-proofing your workforce for the long-term. We’ve developed a successful and proven model of placing undiscovered talent into organisations to benefit your ambitions and turn your challenges like skills shortages into opportunities.
 

Here’s how our model empowers you:

  • Unlock diverse expertise: Gain access to a rich pool of talent from diverse backgrounds, which we’ve pre-vetted and hired, to bring fresh perspectives and skills to your business.

  • Define your target skillsets: Benefit from bespoke training programs that equip the talent you want with a skillset tailored specifically to your organisation’s needs, ensuring immediate impact and long-term growth.

  • Integrate seamlessly: Welcome new team members with confidence, backed by our comprehensive support system designed to foster retention and continuously enhance their performance within your company.

Best of all… all the above requires little to no effort your side. All we need is to understand your organisation’s requirements and we’ll build a flexible talent solution model for you. Start your journey with Skills and Learning today.
 

Jobs we can help you hire

We specialise in providing talent, primarily in the tech and digital space, having already supported leading organisations with placing:

  • Business Analysts
  • Cloud Engineers
  • Data Analysts
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Security Professionals
  • Software Developers
  • Software Testers
     

KEY SOLUTIONS WE OFFER

  • Meet and retain skilled talent trained to your needs though our recognised FTC model.

  • Solve digital skill gaps across business and data analytics with long-term skill capability in mind.

  • Work with high-potential people in hard to access places who are upskilled by us to meet business needs.

MEET THE TEAM & LEARN ABOUT OUR WORK

  • Harry Gooding, Director

    Provided an innovative skills-based hiring method

    Diverse pool of 1,300+ applicants: 60% female, 60% from the global majority, 8% neurodiverse, and 10% with a disability
    "Having struggled to fill technical roles in cloud, security and data and with limited access to talent who saw them as a destination career, this public sector organisation had become reliant on expensive third-party consultants and contractors. They partnered with Skills and Learning to build a bespoke skills-based hiring and development campaign to meet their technical skills requirements.
    By hiring for potential rather than prior experience, we helped this organisation to widen their talent pool and hire 18 talented professionals. The success of this programme led to an additional academy being built to continue to support with building a highly skilled, diverse, permanent workforce."


    0333 010 6107
    harry.gooding@hays.com
    Connect on LinkedIn

  • Jenna Faust, Client Partner

    Helped a client to overcome talent shortages

    Reduced the time spent managing new hires from 35% to 15% and achieved a 6x faster speed to value
    "This automative and defence manufacturer were impressed by the quality of talent across our open cohorts when they attended our ‘showcase day’ and decided to hire one of our consultants, as they had previously been struggling to attract the right calibre of candidates for their project planner roles. Our solution provided them with access to undiscovered talent groups, which significantly widened their candidate pool.
    Additionally, our closely managed onboarding support helped them to hit the ground running and reduced the time they would typically spend setting up new recruits. Since our consultant joined their organisation, our client’s feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and they’re now keen to source similar, high-quality consultants through Skills and Learning."


    0333 010 2773
    jenna.faust@hays.com
    Connect on LinkedIn

  • Harry Tingle, Client Partner

    Delivered cost-effective solutions that exceeded expectations

    Saved approx. £175,000 in contractor fees over 2 years
    "This leading healthcare specialist worked with us to source two high-quality workers for what they would usually pay for one. Prior to finding a cost-effective solution with Skills and Learning, they had been working with expensive contractors and consultants who were not supplying the skills that matched their expectations of quality. Our client was so impressed by our selection that they hired three consultants instead of two, who have all excelled in their roles and had a positive impact on the whole team since their onboarding."


    0333 010 5740
    harry.tingle@hays.com
    Connect on LinkedIn

  • Isabel Lee, Client Partner

    Supplied a perfect-match consultant with strong prospects

    Reduced time to hire by 80%
    "Over the course of a large and complex transformation programme, this communications company were struggling to find skilled PMOs to join their team and stay long-term. They had to resort to management consultancies to fulfil short-term skills requirements and were under intense time pressure to find a long-term solution.
    After they partnered with Skills and Learning, we were able to supply a perfect-match consultant from an undiscovered talent group to support their global transformation programmes in just one week. This consultant has since excelled in this role and a promotion to Lead PMO looks likely for the near future. Having been so impressed with the quality of talent we provided and the cost-effectiveness of our solution, our client has now hired a second consultant through us."


    0333 010 3260
    isabel.lee@hays.com
    Connect on LinkedIn

Why choose Skills and Learning?

Setting your organisation apart from others starts with choosing the right talent, the right way. With Skills and Learning you’ll uniquely benefit from:

  • Embedding DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) and social impact into the fabric of your organisation and workforce
    Tapping into our network of over 60 undiscovered talent partners that enable us to connect you with superstars from all walks of life.
  • Implementing a proven skills-based hiring process
    Taking advantage of our de-biased hiring process that maximises the candidate experience (98% candidate feedback rating to date) and effectively pinpoints the best talent.
  • Assured quality of a Flexi-Jobs Apprenticeship Agency
    Better quality standards / support businesses who struggle to do apprenticeships in accessing emerging talent.


Interested to know more?

Skills and Learning FAQs

Working with Skills and Learning means getting access to best-in-class undiscovered talent, formulating skills strategies that are completely bespoke to your organisation's needs and requirements. In addition to overcoming your specific challenges – both for today and the future – you'll be levelling the playing field for social mobility, embedding a strong sense of DE&I within your organisation.

Collaboration is a vital aspect of attracting diverse talent. Through our extensive range of partnerships and linked communities, you’ll gain access to diverse, uncovered talent profiles - even when recruiting at scale. And when combined with our expert, unbiassed consultancy, we’ll help you develop fair and open recruitment strategies that value ‘potential to learn’ and ‘motivation’.

Reducing agency spend means setting clear parameters and taking a long-term view to talent acquisition. By partnering with us, you’ll see improved financial efficiency, with reduced costs towards third parties and temporary resources. Instead of draining funding on costly, short-term recruitment services with no clear direction, Skills and Learning empowers your organisaiton to grow its own talent pipeline.

Finding the right people with the right skills is an ongoing challenge in today’s employment market; one perpetuated by strong competition and various barriers to entry. However, by plugging the skills gap through your very own Skills and Learning Academy, you can nurture the exact talent your organisation needs to secure long-term, sustainable growth. Differentiate yourself from other organisations with a scalable and flexible Academy, and overcome obstacles to career paths with unbiassed hiring processes.

EXPERT INSIGHTS FROM SKILLS AND LEARNING

Hire for potential over existing skillsets

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Be someone’s second chance

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Inclusive hiring is now a case of business survival

Improving inclusion in the workplace should be seen as more than just a moral and legal obligation, but an integral part of your organisation’s continued success.

5 ways to embrace neurodiversity in the workplace

Read our at a glance guide to understand how to accommodate people with diverse thinking patterns and recognise the value these differences bring.

Ready to work with undiscovered talent and elevate your organisation to new heights?

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