Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Graphcore is backed by Silicon Valley Venture Capital Sequoia, who have backed Apple, Google, WhatsApp, Youtube, Instagram and Zoom amongst many others.Nigel Toon founded Graphcore in Bristol, and now is employing 450 people across Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo and Cambridge. Highlights of the episode: Nigel thinks that the impact of Artificial Intelligence is both overblown and underestimated How we should think of AI as a tool similar to how the spreadsheet impacted accountancy, far from displacing jobs as many predicted - more people are now working in accountancy than ever before.  How the most powerful skill is seeing across boundaries How WW2 impacted the development of the jet engine.  Their plans to hire 200 people in the next year Why Bristol is a brilliant differentiator to attract the best engineers. We also talk about the plans for Graphcore to float on the stock market.  Oh if that wasn’t enough we finish on a touch of geo politics and digital nationalism.It is a cracker of an episodeA reminder you can follow us onInstagram: @JimmysjobsTwitter: @Jimmysjobs And most importantly on LinkedIn.Jimmy also has a email newsletter that you can sign up to here. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Explaining our plans for the second series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future and how we are hoping to grow the show, and how for this series we are partnering with Octopus to bring the great stories of entrepreneurs from across the whole of the UK and beyond. A reminder you can follow us on Instagram: @JimmysjobsTwitter: @Jimmysjobs And most importantly on LinkedIn. Jimmy also has a email newsletter that you can sign up to here. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christian was appointed as the Editor at City AM five years ago, it has a brilliant reputation for nurturing exceptional talent, the likes of Oliver Shah, Sunday Times business editor, kate McCann of Sky News, Julian Harris and Tom Welsh of the Daily Telegraph all started their careers at the paper. it has been an incredible five years in the UKs history and we get his reflections on how journalism has changed in that period. The core skills still remain of curiosity, judgment, fearlessness, scepticism but not cynicism remain key to being a good journalist. Christian also made clear that the more traditional skills of writing good copy can be taught on the job.We hear how the young journalists pitch themselves in a much broader sense. This is the penultimate episode of the pilot series, so I am keen to hear feedback, particularly from those starting out on their careers such as students or.A reminder you can sign up to the newsletter here. We are on Insta and Twitter @JimmysJobsAnd you can follow me directly on Twitter @JimmyM Thanks for listening Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pete, part of the founding team of lastminute.com and Trulia joins us in the second half of this episode to discuss the 48 hours where he met Steve Jobs and Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital. How he had to change mindset when transitioning to an investor from being a founder, demonstrating no matter what you have achieved an agile mindset is very important. In addition, we discuss how modern day entrepreneurship is similar to the geographical explorers like Shackleton of centuries gone by. He has recently written a brilliant essay on the NFX website on how to 10X your career, you can check out that piece which we talk a lot about in the show - https://www.nfx.com/post/10x-career-decisions/I have been thinking of how to transition my career for a year since leaving Downing Street and it is the best piece I have read on the subject.Thank you to this episodes sponsor, Juggle.Jobs A key theme of this podcast has been the challenge entrepreneurs face in getting the right level of experience for a fast growing company.Flexible hiring is the most obvious route while you grow, but it's difficult to find experienced hires that can hit the ground running through traditional recruitment firms that don't focus on flexible workers and charge expensive market rates.This time vs. experience vs. cost was exactly the dilemma faced by Wesley Rashid at Accountancy Cloud. The Juggle platform automated the recruitment process from job placement to payment of talented flexible workers, it made the hiring process 25% quicker.He was able to hire the perfect candidate on a flexible basis through Juggle, and this resulted in him saving both time and money.Wesley told me; It’s one the best decisions I’ve made for the business, I won’t be using archaic recruitment processes anymore and I fully recommend using Juggle to any growing start-up!You can check them out at juggle.jobsA reminder that Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is on Instagram on Twitter @JimmysJobs And you can sign up to the newsletter to get summaries sent to your inbox and updates about future guests: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jimmym Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pete Flint was the founding member of LastMinute.com with Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox. Following the billion dollar acquisition, Pete went to study for an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He noticed how it was hard to get accomodation, and so this led to him founding Trulia, which turned into another unicorn being acquired by Zillow for £3.5 billion. He has recently written a brilliant essay on the NFX website on how to 10X your career, you can check out that piece which we talk a lot about in the show - https://www.nfx.com/post/10x-career-decisions/I have been thinking of how to transition my career for a year since leaving Downing Street and it is the best piece I have read on the subject.Thank you to this episodes sponsor, Juggle.Jobs Three key themes of this podcast have been talent, diversity, and flexibility. Young ambitious companies always face a challenge between hiring a full time employee, but also getting the right level of experience for what they need and within their budgets.That is where Juggle Jobs comes in, think of them as an AirBnB for high end employment ...as Hayden Wood said in the first episode, hire talent, but rent experience.You can post a free job advertisement on Juggle in just a few minutes, and then you are presented with intelligently matched candidates.You can check their process at juggle.jobsA reminder that you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @JimmysJobs If you want further summaries and sneak peeks of upcoming guests - sign up to the Jimmy's Jobs of the Future email at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jimmym Thanks very much for listening. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We invited Hayden Wood back on the show in a special bonus episode to talk about how the government had announced plans to create 250,000 jobs as part of the Green Industrial Revolution. Hayden discusses the plans to reach Net Zero and a bit more on what they look for as employees at Bulb. As a reminder you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter @JimmysJobs We are also on LinkedIn too at Jimmy's jobs of the Future Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sarah Wood OBE founded Unruly, which was acquired by News Corp in 2015 for a nine figure sum. Sarah is now the Senior Independent Director at TechNation. We talk about a PANDA strategy for hiring and how teams can ensure diversity of hiring. You can check out Sarah's book, 'stepping up, how to accelerate your leadership potential' at https://steppingupbook.co.uk/ Please do consider sharing this episode on social media we are at @jimmysjobs on Instagram and Twitter and we are on LinkedIn too. Please also consider directly sharing with a friend on WhatsApp who is thinking of a career change, as that is the most likely way that someone will check out the show. Thanks for listening. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sarah is the co-founder of Unruly, the global video advertising marketplace that was acquired by News Corp in 2015 for a nine figure fee.  Sarah is now the Senior Independent Director at TechNation, a network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs.She is also a best selling author, her book 'stepping up: how to accelerate your leadership potential' which is a must read career handbook for millennials. You can purchase that at - https://steppingupbook.co.uk/Sarah was appointed an OBE for services to technology and innovation and is a judge on the women's prize for fiction. She started her career as a lecturer at University of Sussex and Cambridge.She starts by explaining how the London 7/7 terrorist attacks led to her wanting a change in her career, and that led to her founding Unruly. Sarah also talks about health and energy being the big sectors for growth.Specific roles she talks about include data scientists, software engineers, digital marketeers and international operations teams. She also namechecks, some of the most exciting companies in the latest Technation cohort. Olio - is a mobile app for food-sharing, aiming to reduce food waste. It does this by connecting those with surplus food to those who need or wish to consume such food. It is run by the very impressive Tessa Clarke Florence - is an online marketplace seamlessly connecting independent nurses and carers with the shifts they want.Farewill - is making the process around will writing much easier and attempting to make life simpler for the loved ones when someone passes away. Thanks for checking out the show notes, please do remember to rate us on iTunes and feel free to share us on social media, LinkedIn in particular although we are on Instagram and Twitter @JimmysJobs Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Izzy Obeng, left her role as a management consultant two years ago to set up an accelerator for black and ethnic minority founders. Whilst they have only been going two years, they have already seen 2,000 people pass through their programmes and are working more with local governments to help reach those most in need of the advice.They are expanding now so that it is not just purely entrepreneurial skill sets they are providing, but a full immersive education experience where people gain ongoing mentoring for example. They are also working with employers, providing a diverse talent pipeline to corporates, many of their courses are held in corporate offices, so that attendees can understand more about business life. I mention at the end of the show how we are going to have Dr. Sarah Wood who founded Unruly. We also have Pete Flint, the legendary venture capitalist coming on the show who wrote the article how to 10x your career - that is available here - https://www.nfx.com/post/10x-career-decisions/ Thanks again for listening, please take the time to review us on iTunes or share us on social media, we are on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn @JimmysJobs Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thank you for checking out the show notes. Please do consider signing up to our email newsletter.And follow us on LinkedIn at Jimmy's Jobs of the FutureWe are on Instagram and Twitter: @jimmysjobs Thank you for your continued supportEpisode summaryIf I were summing that up to the Prime Minister, I would suggest something along the lines of the following. PM, we met with an interesting company this week that is a large provider of data and digital upskilling to large corporates in the UK. They work with Burberry, Unilever, Marks & Spencer to provide Data Academies. They have also become a modern day exporter setting up offices across the globe and having trained half a million people in 85 cities, including American companies like Nike. Kathryn believes that it should be a legal requirement for boards to understand data and cybersecurity, in the way that all board members have a grasp of finances. The World Economic Forum released a paper this week on the future of work saying that whilst 43% of businesses expect to reduce their workforce due to technology integration, they still ultimately expect more jobs to be created overall as a result of innovation. Mathematics, engineering and physics are as valuable as computer science, interestingly they noted Southampton has an up and coming talent hub. The technology founder has an unusual story, having read Classics at University, demonstrating again that technology founders can come from many backgrounds. This would undoubtedly pique the current occupier of No.10’s interest as he studied Classics and can recite Ancient Greek incredibly well. Well I say incredibly well, it seems impressive to me when she does it. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices