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Bright Network
Connecting people from all backgrounds with the brightest career opportunities
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Recruitment
- Training
- Spitalfields, London, UK
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Company mission
Bright's mission is to connect the next generation with the opportunities, insights and advice to succeed as the workforce of tomorrow.
50% female employees
Our take
Job searching is often considered to be the hardest part of building a career, mostly driven by the common lack of understanding in how the process works. Despite knowing this, career preparation is not often taught at universities, resulting in highly-skilled job seekers missing valuable opportunities.
Bright provides a graduate careers network, quizzing users to help them understand their relevant industries and roles, as well as any skill gaps they might have, to provide personalized internship and career recommendations. Users are also supported throughout the process with an online learning environment called Bright Network Academy, the content of which is personalized based on the user's unique skill profile.
Despite facing competition from online recruitment and learning platforms, Bright has uniquely recognized that before a job search begins, a graduate’s unique skill sets, personality traits, and goals must be understood. By considering such information and providing the necessary resources for learning, Bright aims to help maximize its users’ potential and land them with a career crafted specifically for them.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- Sociable offices in London & Edinburgh as well as team socials a plenty!
- £50 wellbeing budget each month to help you look after yourself and fund healthy habits
- Unlimited annual leave
- Private healthcare through BUPA
- Home office budget
- Enhanced pension contribution - 5% employer pension contribution through Aviva
- Learning opportunities - monthly Lunch & Learns with guest speakers and training budget for you and your team
- Company-wide annual bonus scheme, employee referrals and peer-nominated awards
Company values
- Growth Mindset - We apply a growth mindset to ensure we can become the very best versions of ourselves
- Will to Win - Our will to win helps us consistently exceed expectations and always bounce back stronger
- Trusted to Deliver - We’re trusted to deliver and work collaboratively as an ego-free team to achieve this
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2020
$4.5m
SERIES B
Jul 2018
$3.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $7.8m
This company has top investors
Leadership
James Uffindell
(CEO)Founded Bright as CEO in 2010.
People progressing
Over the last four years, Edwina has progressed from an Events Manager as an individual contributor, to Head of Events delivery leading a team of five!
Since joining as Product Manager, Ailsa has secured 2 promotions, firstly to Product Director & recently to VP Product. She leads the product team & owns the strategic vision of the company's platforms.
Josh has progressed from Account Manager to Account Director & Partner Insights Lead - taking on line management responsibility & working with the Commercial Director on client-facing initiatives.
In addition to progressing from Intern to Senior PSM within our Partner Success team - Lily has most recently made an internal move joining the B2B team as Content Marketing Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Bright Network
- Equal opportunities for all is a core part of what we do at Bright Network. To this end, we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and endeavour to run a fair and equal hiring process at all times. We assess and recruit candidates based on competency and potential, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability status. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, please read our DEIB statement : https://workfor.brightnetwork.co.uk/deib
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Opportunities to learn (1)
Intelligent people (1)
Supportive management (1)
Great work is recognised (1)
Team energy (1)
Focus on employee wellbeing (1)
Inspiring mission (1)
I've been given the opportunity to learn at every stage of my career at Bright Network. If there's a course or learning opportunity which I think will be beneficial to myself or the business, it's always been offered to me because the benefit of up-skilling employees, both for the continual learning of the employee but also for the business, is recognised and championed.
Marketing
Opportunities to learn
Aug 2023
It's incredibly inspiring to work at Bright Network because everyone is intelligent and an expert at what they do. There are role models and aspirational people to look up to in every team, and this makes learning both really easy and enjoyable.
Marketing
Intelligent people
Aug 2023
Wellbeing is always championed at Bright Network. My team includes wellbeing check-ins during our weekly meetings to see where we could be supporting each other more. We have unlimited holiday to take throughout the year plus a monthly wellbeing budget on top of our salaries to spend on whatever would be best for our wellbeing. With the numerous meetings I've had throughout my time at Bright Network about my wellbeing, I feel that the team genuinely cares about me and not just my work.
Marketing
Focus on employee wellbeing
Aug 2023
Monthly and quarterly awards and prizes are given to employees who have done great work, these awards can be nominated by anyone in the company who has recognised this work, not just being chosen by senior leaders
Sales & Account Management
Great work is recognised
Aug 2023
Flexible working is prioritised because Bright Network recognises that people perform best in different ways, i.e. we have a work from anywhere policy encouraging people to explore while working remotely and there isn't an expectation that you are only doing your job if you're online exactly at 9am and log off exactly at 6pm
Sales & Account Management
Flexible working
Aug 2023
Everyone at Bright Network knows how their role contributes to the company mission and this feeds into everything we do from a top level perspective down to how daily decisions are made which is really inspiring
Sales & Account Management
Inspiring mission
Aug 2023
The team at Bright Network fully support flexible working and trust employees to get their job done around a schedule that suits them. This can be flexing time around core hours, a mix of office and WFH as well as a work from anywhere policy.
Finance, Legal & Compliance
Flexible working
Aug 2023
The management team really back the decisions and progression of more junior team members. The Exec are very open to feedback and get the wider team involved to support on work relevant to them. Team members believe in the Tour of Duty concept & I really feel my manager supports what is best for my personal career progression.
Finance, Legal & Compliance
Supportive management
Aug 2023
The whole Bright Network team recently came together at our annual company offsite, it was amazing to get everyone in a room together working on future strategy. The energy is great with people from across offices spending time working & socialising. The offices also have a great energy and the team enjoy being together.
Finance, Legal & Compliance
Team energy
Aug 2023
