A poll of 4,000 workers, by leading insurer Aviva, found that three in five employees planned to make career changes, ranging from a job switch to learning a new skill – a seven percentage point increase since July 2020. Aviva’s research also found that while young people were most likely to make the change (87% said they were now re-evaluating ...

It’s a tough time to be young. The latest ONS figures show that the UK unemployment rate was estimated at 4.7%, 0.8 percentage points higher than before the pandemic, but 0.3 percentage points lower than the previous quarter. Redundancies, too, have now returned to pre-pandemic levels. Despite these positive trends, the brunt of layoffs during t...

The nature of recruitment in Britain is changing. It has always been tricky, but even more so during the last year with remote working forcing the move to near ubiquitous virtual hiring. According to HR News, this has meant 57% of hiring managers think hires they have made in the past year have not worked out to some extent.  Britain has just co...

Don't Stop at Plan A Life doesn’t always go according to plan, something 2020 has taught everyone. That’s why you need a plan. Today, Craig Dyer is the successful founder of Plan C Group, a collection of companies including an independent record label (Plan C Records), an event management and promotion company (Plan C Promotions) and a social en...

Lemons into Lemonade We often hear that if you do well at school, you’ll get into a good university and, eventually, land a good job. There's a pattern here: work hard and you’ll be successful. What we are, unfortunately, not taught is how to navigate a constellation of external factors beyond our control. Failure is a part of life, but how you ...

We’re delighted to share our brand new video, with our brand new logo, on our brand new website! Our brand new website is here, thanks to the excellent work of our industry-leading partners at Volcanic.  As we’ve been redeveloping our website, we consulted with a range of our registered candidates and potential new users. You told us how easy th...

The Rapid Recovery Challenge has funded progress at pace The Bridge of Hope has reached more new candidates and employers than even our most hopeful projections, in the four months since Nesta made us one of their Rapid Recovery Challenge semi-finalists. This week, we reached 40,000 registered candidates on our site. They can view over 30,000 li...

An interview with Michael Corrigan, CEO, Prosper 4 Group Michael Corrigan has always been a ‘get on and do it’ person. It’s a characteristic that took root making and selling biscuits at school and took him all the way to a partnership at Deloitte. Unfortunately, a search for a new challenge went badly wrong, and suddenly he was serving 16 month...

How a generous grant changed the game for Bridge of Hope We were delighted last year to be awarded a substantial grant from Innovate UK, to put new technology to good use helping marginalised people back into work. As 2020 dawned, our website was a pretty niche affair. As Prosper4Jobs, we were dedicated to helping ex-offenders rehabilitate into ...

Prosper 4's growing careers portal receives a major boost We are thrilled that BRIDGEOFHOPE.CAREERS has been chosen by Nesta as a Rapid Recovery Challenge semi-finalist from a pool of 148 entries. As the UK’s innovation agency for social good, Nesta’s latest £2.8m Challenge fund is designed to invest in new tools and services that improve people...