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Hatch Consultancy


  • ​Turning early careers investment into measurable return. For people, employers, educators, and the public purse.


    Helping organisations turn early careers ambitions into credible, measurable outcomes. Across attraction, programme delivery, and social value evidence. 

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Early Careers and Social Value Consultancy for Organisations in the UK

​Hatch helps employers, educators, and public bodies attract early careers talent, deliver programmes that work, and prove their social value using a candidate-driven approach informed by SROI and impact measurement methodology. Hatch reviews and designs offers that genuinely deliver for candidates, and the rest takes care of itself: better attraction, retention, productivity, social value, and a stronger local economy. The focus is on three interconnected areas: Attract, Deliver, and Prove. Each are designed to move from intention to measurable outcome.

1. Attract

Are you reaching the right talent, for the right roles, for the right reasons?

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2. Deliver

Are you delivering a programme that works for the individual?

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3. Prove

Can you evidence the impact in terms that stakeholders trust?

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Why I Started Hatch

More organisations are investing in early careers talent. Very few can prove what it's worth. I've seen this from every angle: as a recruiter placing hundreds of early careers professionals, inside RSP programmes, at an early careers job board, and as an employer myself. The space is flooded with ideas and activity, but little to show whether any of it is actually working: what's the impact on the individual, the employer, the local economy — and what's the return, socially and commercially? So I built Hatch to fix it.

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Backed By Real Data

Data is the soil. Everything else grows from it.


In 2026, Hatch launched Talent Yfory: Wales' first Early Careers Social Value Index. Talent Yfory is the soil in which a successful early careers ecosystem can grow. Built from 450+ respondents, using SROI & impact measurement methodology, it's not a pilot or a proxy. It's the evidence base behind everything Hatch recommends, and the reason recommendations can be specific rather than generic: what's working, for whom, and why.


Get the data right at the individual level, and stronger outcomes follow: better retention, productivity, social value, and a stronger local economy.


The Talent Yfory Index will return in 2027 with Wales' First Early Careers Awards Announced.


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