Find your feet at work. Build your confidence.
24 Early Career Essentials: Completely free, practical videos for apprentices, graduates and trainees navigating the first months at work.
The things nobody thinks to explain.
Starting work brings questions beyond how to do the job.
How do you ask for help?
How to build trust?
How to speak to senior colleagues?
How to know what’s expected?
We created this completely free to access, 24 Early Career Essentials YouTube Series to help new starters understand everyday work situations and feel more confident handling them.
8 Short videos. 24 Useful lessons.
Eight videos, around ten minutes each, cover communication, trust, managing time, working remotely and navigating work social events to give you, 24 Early Career Essentials. Two bonus episodes follow a graduate and an apprentice putting the learning into practice.
Choose a topic you need today, or work through our two playlists: Starting Out and Thriving in Work. Everything is free on YouTube — created to help you build confidence at work and shape the future you aspire to.
You’ll see this reflected in the videos’ original name: Aspiring Futures.
“It’s taken the pressure off our senior team and helped our apprentices and grads hit the ground running.”
Put your learning into practice
It’s easy to watch a video, find it useful and then forget what you’ve learnt. Our free workbook helps you reflect, choose what to try and build confidence through everyday actions.
For managers, our free guide helps you turn that learning into useful one-to-one conversations — so your new starters can thrive sooner.
Don’t take our word for it.
The 24 Early Career Essentials YouTube series was inspired by Aspiring Futures, a programme we created in partnership with MAC Construction Consultants to help their early-career colleagues build confidence, communicate clearly and succeed at work. The impact was immediate: increased confidence, stronger communication.