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Hyphen
B2B Power Skills Training Platform
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Education
- Training
- Learning
- Community
- Soho, London, UK
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Company mission
Hyphen's mission is to equip everyone with the skillset, community, and inspiration to make their unique dent in the world.
Our take
Hyphen’s approach to the parallel issues of talent recruitment and graduate unemployment is a savvy one: apprenticeship programmes for the startup sector, helping companies to equip young professionals with the essential skills to move up in their chosen industry. Vetted applicants accepted onto the Hyphen fellowship programme are placed in a 12-month salaried role at a participating startup, along with in-role training and support.
The company is targeting graduates and early-career applicants, and this is a smart move. Gen Z reports the strongest attraction to enterprise and the startup world, and there are startups who will be drawn to the opportunity to secure quality candidates at a comparatively modest cost. Hyphen appears to have secured a small number of them already, and whilst this number will need to expand if the programme picks up steam, it’s a good start for an early-stage project.
In fact, the first Hyphen cohort is yet to graduate. So results like post-programme employment figures, which are often pivotal in drumming up subsequent interest, remain to be seen. Hyphen’s previous operational experience running short-form courses as Menon Labs, however, means the company is well-versed in how to get a programme off the ground.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Hybrid Work: We encourage everyone to come in 2-3 days a week - and you can also work from abroad regularly
- Team Events: Regular company and team events like brunches, dinners and workations
- Ownership: Every full-time employee gets virtual stock options - we all succeed together
- Wellbeing Support: A monthly sport and wellbeing budget that can be used according to your preferences
- Equipment: Operating system and hardware of your choice and additional tech equipment that you need
- L&D Allowance: Annual budget dedicated to your learning and personal and professional development
Company values
- Silly Ambitious - We ask: “What would it take?” not “Is that even possible?“. We take calculated risks that make our palms sweaty in order to attain our mission and vision
- Laser Focused - We always deliver on the most important thing. We embrace saying no to good projects to save room for great projects - and we will take a fact-based approach in deciding which projects are great
- Transparent by Default - We embrace radical candour - being honest with each other and with ourselves. As a result, we are comfortable with disagreement or failure, and commit to action once we’ve found consensus on the way forward
- Equitable Access - We are committed to safeguarding inclusive, equal access to professional growth & success through our work with our organisational partners
Leadership
Raphael Eder
(Founder)A serial entrepreneur who began as a Founders of the Future fellow, moving on to hold an analyst position at McKinsey, and subsequently founded inequalities charity Project Access. Is also a fellow at Transcend Network and Sigma Squared Society.