Early Careers

Invest in potential. Our early careers solutions help you identify, develop, and retain high-quality candidates - building a foundation for long-term success.

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Discover, develop, and deploy future talent

Finding and retaining skilled professionals has never been more challenging – or more critical. Our Emerging Talent Solutions close the gap by combining full-stack early careers hiring with bespoke training programmes, giving you access to diverse talent and the future-ready skills your organisation needs.

Through our Hire-Train-Deploy model, we identify high-potential individuals from untapped talent pools, equipping them with in-demand skills and business readiness. And together with our Apprenticeship Training, you can train new or existing staff while optimising your funding through the Apprenticeship Levy.

We support all our emerging professionals throughout their journey with best-in-class learning and commercially aligned training – ensuring long-term retention and delivering measurable ROI for your organisation.

  • Full-stack early careers

    Whether you’re launching a graduate programme, addressing critical skills shortages, or reskilling your workforce, we provide a scalable, flexible solution that aligns with your business goals.

  • Maximise your investment

    As the only provider offering both Hire-Train-Deploy and Apprenticeship Training, we help you optimise your Apprenticeship Levy, reduce costs, streamline headcount, and build a diverse talent pipeline.

  • A fairer working model

    We pay our people fairly, charge no exit fees, and even reward retention – because long-term success matters to us as much as it does to you.

How Emerging Talent Solutions can benefit your business 

  • Full-stack early careers

    Whether you’re launching a graduate programme, addressing critical skills shortages, or reskilling your workforce, we provide a scalable, flexible solution that aligns with your business goals.

  • Maximise your investment

    As the only provider offering both Hire-Train-Deploy and Apprenticeship Training, we help you optimise your Apprenticeship Levy, reduce costs, streamline headcount, and build a diverse talent pipeline. 

  • A fairer working model

    We pay our people fairly, charge no exit fees, and even reward retention – because long-term success matters to us as much as it does to you.

     

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Inspire the next generation

Benefit from our award-winning programme, fostering collaboration between education providers and organisations. We’ll support you in building your brand, enabling early engagement with the talent who will drive forward your future growth.
 

Develop and engage top talent

Attraction is important, but retention is critical. With right expertise onboarded and engaged, we’ll develop bespoke development pathways to aid retention, with a relentless focus on your organisation’s future skills requirements.

Talk to us about early careers strategy

Are you ready to enhance your Early Careers strategy? Talk to the team at Hays. For more information complete the form below to request a call back, or email us directly earlycareersadvisory@hays.com.

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Early careers tailored to your business 

Our early careers experts adopt a truly consultative approach to understand the challenges and opportunities facing your organisation.

We combine a wealth of industry insights and proven best practice with a deep understanding of your organisation to inform our strategy.

An early careers solution as unique as your organisation.

Early careers FAQs

We leverage bespoke marketing approaches to tap into a greater array of target markets. We’ll also review your selection and assessment processes and eradicate bias, enabling under-represented populations to demonstrate their potential during application and interview stages.

Absolutely. We work hard to understand your future skill requirements, combining this with a wealth of insights across the world of work. Then, we’ll get to work, building and implementing the strategies you need to attract and retain individuals, and future proof your organisation.

We’re hyper-focused on increasing the attractiveness of your organisation in the market. Together, we’ll define and implement a range of strategies to position your purpose and proposition to the market.

But we don’t limit ourselves to simply attracting the right people, we’ll also review your processes to ensure an exceptional candidate experience, with ‘always on’ activity ensuring your talent network is kept warm.

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