Supporting every young person find work that
matters to them

Work experience opens doors to new worlds, leads to higher incomes and less unemployment.* However, only a third of 16-18 year olds do work experience with almost all schools asking families to source placements, which can be a challenge for those without connections. UK employers would love to help but would like hosting to be easier and higher impact.

*Source: Speakers for Schools: Work Experience for All

The Not Impossible process begins by helping young people find organisations working on the issues they care most about. Why? Because our favourite career advice is to choose a tribe not a job title. Tribes are about connection, bringing people together around a shared interest, passion, or mission. Many organisations call this cultural fit and some of our best (e.g. Patagonia) live this ethos by reading CVs from the bottom up; focusing on interests, hobbies, and personal achievements first to identify those who resonate with their values and environmental and social goals.

This helps recruit dedicated, creative, and engaged employees who genuinely support the organisation's mission.

We save organisations the challenge of bottom up CV reading by helping them build a pipeline of local young people who share their purpose.

Every organisation should resemble the communities they hope to serve.

Recruitment processes make this challenging with a focus on existing employee referrals, top universities and CV screening.

We don’t look at gender, ethnicity, pedigree or work history in our matching process. Instead, we build relationships between local young people and purpose-led employees based the latest behaviour science research on how people like to solve problems and how they are likely to behave.

Early career recruitment benefits all employers. School leaver, apprenticeship and graduate roles provide a unique opportunity for organisations to train new talent with the necessary skills and knowledge tailored to their specific business needs, with as much as 100% of the training costs (up to £30k) funded through Apprenticeship Levy funds.

Organisations not only benefit from increased productivity, lower recruitment costs and a more diverse workforce, but also contribute to reducing the skills gap and youth unemployment in the UK.

The challenge is how you find great early years talent when they have little experience to put on their CV. This is where we can help by focusing on cultural and behavioural fit.

We believe businesses are uniquely positioned to tackle social problems due to their resources, scalability and ability to collaborate effectively with other organisations.

To amplify these positives, (and reduce the downsides) we believe in 3rd party checks and balances.

B Corp is the best, assessing companies every three years, cementing our ongoing commitment to meet higher standards of transparency, accountability and performance and offering a positive vision of a better way to do business.

We go further and are part of 1% for The Planet, which means we donate at least 1% of annual turnover - sales, not profit - to environmental not-for-profit organisations.