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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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

  • Ease and speed of access to skilled talent, with a core understanding of how to retain your best people.

  • Establish long-term skills capabilities and workforce succession planning.

  • Create attractive career prospects for undiscovered talent, using your employer value proposition.

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.


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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.

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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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A SOLUTION FOR EVERY WORKFORCE CHALLENGE

Enhance your access to expertise

The strategies you need to find the people who will power your progress