Hi, I'm Jack — Director of Hatch Consultancy.
Most organisations invest in early careers talent. Very few can prove what it's worth.
I've spent my career inside that gap: across the early careers ecosystem, including RSP programmes, as a recruiter placing hundreds of early careers professionals into roles, at an early careers job board, and as an employer myself.
From my experience, the space is flooded with ideas and activity but little to actually show whether any of it is working. What's the impact on the individual, the employer, and the local economy? And what's the return? Both business and social?
So I built Hatch to fix it.
What I Offer
I help employers, educators, and public bodies attract early careers talent, deliver programmes that work, and prove their social value: a candidate-driven approach using SROI and impact measurement methodology. I design offers and services that genuinely delivers for candidates, and the rest takes care of itself: better attraction, retention, productivity, social value, and a stronger local economy.
I am a great believer that data is the soil and everything else grows from it. That's why in 2026, I 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 and impact measurement methodology. It's the evidence base behind everything I recommend, and the reason my recommendations can be specific rather than generic: what's working, for whom, and why.
If you need to prove your early careers investment is working, whether that's to a board, a funder, or a procurement framework, or design something that will work in the first place, that's exactly where I can help.