A different way of thinking about talent.
Emerging Talent Partnership was launched where most early talent consultancies start, graduate programmes, apprenticeships and internships. But the longer Helen - our founder, spent working inside businesses, the more a different problem kept surfacing.
The workforce challenge
Businesses in specialist, competitive markets were paying above market rate to hire external experts while overlooking people already inside who wanted to develop in exactly that direction. They had workforce data that counted heads but didn’t look ahead. They could see skills gaps coming but had no strategy to address them. The problem wasn’t a lack of talent. It was a lack of strategy.
Expanding the talent view
Graduates, apprentices and interns remain essential - they bring fresh thinking and long-term pipeline value that can’t be replicated internally. But the businesses that genuinely future-proof themselves think beyond the next intake. They hire well at every entry point and develop what they already have. They open apprenticeships and development pathways to people at every age and stage. They recognise that someone changing careers at 40 brings something a graduate cannot.
An untapped opportunity
There’s also an opportunity most businesses haven’t woken up to yet - people who have built careers elsewhere and want to start again. For businesses in competitive markets, opening entry level programmes to career changers isn’t a compromise. It’s an advantage.
That’s the balance Emerging Talent Partnership helps businesses get right.
About Helen
Helen Eleftheriou is a Talent Strategy and Early Careers specialist with over 20 years’ experience leading graduate, apprenticeship and intern programmes for global businesses across APAC, EMEA and North America.
Before founding Emerging Talent Partnership, she spent nearly six years at Rolls-Royce as Global Head of Early Careers Resourcing, leading a team delivering around 1,000 graduate, intern and apprentice hires annually across three global regions. Her earlier career spans financial services, utilities and energy.
She works on a project and advisory basis, embedded where needed, advisory where that’s more useful. Where a project needs additional specialist resource, she brings in trusted partners. The approach is direct and collaborative. You’ll always know where things stand.
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