Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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

Thanks for checking out the show notes, please leave a rating if listening on iTunes and share with your friends who you think might find it useful.  We already have 50 ratings, but it would be great to keep up the momentum. If you would like to share us, please do so on LinkedIn, as that is where we think most people who are looking for career inspiration will be spending their time.  just search for Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.We are also on Instagram and Twitter @JimmysJobs and would of course be delighted if you could share then. Summary of the episodeJimmy interviews the Founder and CEO of the Dots, Pip Jamieson. The Dots is a platform over over half a million 'no collar workers', these people can include those in the creative industries and the wider technology sector. There are 10,000 companies on the platform using it to hire people. Jimmy provides a briefing note to the Prime Minister which is summarised below. If I were summing that up to the PM, I would probably write something along the lines of the followingPrime Minister, this week, we met with a fascinating company which is creating the modern day rails for the creative economy and more broadly what they term no collar workers It has half a million members on the platform, 40% of whom are freelancers, they are predominantly coming together to work on creative side projects and they are seeing a surge of freelancers as people pursue side projects, partly as a result of the pandemic. There are also 10,000 companies on the platform using it to hire people. Unsurprisingly in the last few months, they have seen competition for applications increasing across the board. But equally there has been a rise of remote working applications and opportunities, which is leading to a democratisation for those not living in metropolitan hubs, we heard a similar theme from Hayden Wood at bulb last week. They are seeing an increase of the multi disciplinary individual, sometimes referred to as T shaped skill set or even coloquially as a ‘slashie’. Furthermore, they are seeing the rise of skill swappers, a trend where people are trading their time and skills in exchange for being taught skills in other areas, for example an accountant or lawyer may offer their time to a start up project in exchange for learning about more creative design and vicer versa. They are seeing this increase at round 50% month on month increase, therefore this is now 25x what it was last year. When building The Dots, Pip referred to four golden skills of product, which are management, engineering, design and data - they have upskilled interns in these areas who are now full team members. Technology firms are increasing their hiring on the platform, but not just in technical skills such as engineering, they are also seeing a significant rise number of copywriters and producers for example.Even in technical roles the importance of creativity is becoming more important, and this is a trend The Dots are likely to see increasing until Quantum technology comes in. I may providSubscribe 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

The two articles that I mentioned in the summary that Hayden sent across after the show:https://cultureby.com/2019/01/someday-we-will-all-play-for-the-patriots.htmlhttps://www.patspulpit.com/2017/5/18/15644770/bill-belichick-explains-why-the-patriots-always-have-one-of-the-smallest-coaching-staffs-in-the-nflJimmy is joined by one of the UKs leading entrepreneurs, Hayden Wood founded Bulb alongside his co founder, Amit just five years ago in 2015. For those of you that haven't heard of,Bulb, they provide 100% renewable electricity and 100% carbon neutral gas to a now staggering 1.7 million members across the UK.   That has led it to become the fastest growing private company in the UK, but its growth is not just limited to these shores, as it has recently just announced expansion into France, Spain and Texas.  They employ almost 900 people in a wide variety of different roles, and we'll ask Hayden where he sees green jobs of the future coming from, it is a phrase that is often trotted out, but we'll aim to get into more of the detail today.  Whilst it has been a great success story, not everything is or has been plain sailing and we will discuss some of the challenges the company has had along the way. **Please leave us a rating if you enjoy the show or even tag us on social media in particularly on LinkedIn, we are at @JimmysJobs**Prime Ministerial SummaryIf I were summing that conversation up to the Prime Minister in a short briefing memo, the key things that I would include.  All employees have some form of data test now  The best ideas can come from surprising places for example their internal hack weeks, where they put lots of multi disciplinary people together to try and improve the business - this is where their single energy tariff idea came from.  Only 5% of their employees had a background in energy before joining the company.  At any given point, 5% of employees are in rotation within another part of the business, seeing how each other work and sharing ideas Biggest challenge came when trying to recruit too many people too quickly - this is a challenge we see often for fast growing scale up companies They are using the traditional in person interview less, because of biases that this can lead too.  Lastly, I was interested to hear how whilst the energy use has been smoothed throughout the pandemic, rather than the traditional 5-7pm dash, that has actually led to an increase in prices because it is therefore less predictable.  I would then cross check that with the energy adviser to see if they had any comment they wanted to add. **Please leave us a rating if you enjoy the show or even tag us on social media in particularly on LinkedIn, we are at @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

This show is going to be presented by Jimmy McLoughlin. who up until last year,  was advising the UK Prime Minister on business specialising in technology and entrepreneurship. The aim of this podcast is to interview entrepreneurs about where they think the jobs of the future are coming from and recreate a Prime Ministerial briefing. The truth is, no-one knows what the future holds, but the people building the fastest growing businesses is a good place to start. When working in 10 Downing Street, Jimmy's primary role was to be the go to person for business leaders when they wanted to feed information into the centre of the Government.It meant he could be dealing with a wide range of issues on any given day, from apprenticeship policy, to stock market dives or  their concerns about the latest round of Brexit negotiations. The worst part his day would come when he would get a call from a FTSE Chief Exec telling me they were about to make a large number of redundancies to coincide with the opening of the stock market.This would make for a lot of doom and gloom headlines, and of course for every job lost it was not only a tragedy for an individual, but would often impact an entire family. Yet the UK was undergoing a jobs miracle at the same time, entrepreneurs up and down the country were starting and growing businesses  which was leading to record level of employment, but these incremental steps were often not widely reported. Therefore he was and is curious about where these new jobs were coming from and each week, he’d try to include a note for the PM about a company that had created new jobs in a different area of the country.With everything that has happened in 2020, this now feels more pressing than ever. The process of trying to find a new job is bewildering and complex and it can be difficult to know how to future proof your skills.  So that is what this podcast is about, interviewing entrepreneurs about where they see the jobs of the future coming from, where they are planning to take their businesses, what skills they value now, but also what skills they think their business will need in 3-5 years time. Whether you are just starting out on your career, transitioning or even a bit longer in the tooth, I hope you’ll find these conversations thought provoking about where our economy is going. We have some amazing guests lined up like Hayden Wood who founded the renewable energy company, Bulb and people like Sarah Wood, who had been a University Lecturer, but went on to create £100 million pound business in Unruly Media. He'll break the summaries down into what I would include in a PM briefing and then more of a general careers counsel. I am bootstrapping this, so as every podcast asks, if you enjoy it, please leave a rating, share us on social media particularly on LinkedInInstagramTwitter or even be old fashioned and tell a friend down the pub about it. And make sure you subscribe, that means you won’t miss an episode. 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